Run-On Sentence

The women-in-prison genre is a frequent subject for film and TV, but incarceration isn't always as entertaining as Hollywood would have you believe. Prison Performing Arts commissioned playwright Stacie Lents to write a play about the true world of women's prisons. Lents interviewed the inmates of Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center in Vandalia about their experiences and then crafted the drama Run-On Sentence. The play focuses on how the arrival of a new inmate breaks up the routine and lives of a group of cellmates, and not necessarily in a good way. SATE opens its twelfth season with Run-On Sentence. It will be performed at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (June 6 to 9) and Wednesday through Sunday (June 13 to 17) at the Chapel (6238 Alexander Drive; www.slightlyoff.org). Tickets are $15 to $20.