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How Sing Sing highlights the power of healing through art

Film critic Sarah-Tai Black & CBC Entertainment reporter Jackson Weaver review the prison-meets-theater drama.

Culture critics Sarah-Tai Black and Jackson Weaver review the new film starring Colman Domingo

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a group of prisoners smile while watching a rehersal
With Brent (Paul Raci on the left) members of the RTA theatre company watch a rehersal. From center left to right, Sean San José, Colman Domingo, Sean 'Dino' Johnson and James ‘Big E’ Williams. (Elevation Pictures)

Sing Sing, a new film starring Colman Domingo, follows an imprisoned man who finds purpose acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men. It's based on the real life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, and it features an ensemble cast of formerly incarcerated actors.

Today on Commotion, film critic Sarah-Tai Black and CBC Entertainment reporter Jackson Weaver join guest host Rad Simonpillai to review the prison-meets-theater drama.

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You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.

Panel produced by Ty Callender.

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