THE SHAKESPEARE REDEMPTION.(Luther Luckett Correctional Complex's theater program)

American Theatre, October, 2001 by ZELON, HELEN

INMATES IN A KENTUCKY PRISON GRAPPLE WITH THE TRUTHS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

Every afternoon at 3:50, a long whistle calls across pastures and corn rows, skimming above the county fairgrounds and fat spools of feed hay drying in the sun. It's the afternoon freight train snaking through LaGrange, Ky., past the town's ranch houses and slope-roofed bungalows and through the rolling bluegrass of horse country. The moaning whistle pierces the still, bright afternoon in a dusty prison yard, the heart of Luther Luckett Correctional Complex.

At first, Luckett looks like a highway rest stop, with a green canvas awning and geraniums in the planting beds. Look again. Concertina wire glitters on the prison's whitewashed walls, and a guard tower looms above. This...

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