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Bitesize Learning: Holding Trauma Responses with Care

How do Clean Break facilitators hold spaces safely when trauma responses show up?
Lakesha talks to the camera, illustrated pink swirls surround her

Bitesize Learning: Creative Activity Ideas for Frontline Workers

Three top tips for how to bring creativity into your work as a frontline practitioner.

Spotlight on...
Digital theatre

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Hope

A film from Clean Break
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A Proposal for Resisting Darkness

An audio drama by Yasmin Joseph in collaboration with HMP Downview Theatre Company

Blis-ta

A bold and startling audio drama by Sonya Hale
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Sweatbox

Chloë Moss’s Clean Break play is transformed into an electric adaptation for the screen.
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Co-creating Hope

We asked Hope's co-creators, what was unique about making this film?

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Pregnancy and Motherhood in Prison

Claire Bayley in Scenes from Lost Mothers clip

Watch: Clip from Scenes from Lost Mothers

Claire Bayley performs a scene from Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play about motherhood and imprisonment
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Why the campaign to end the imprisonment of pregnant women must include new mothers

An introduction to the research behind our touring production, Scenes from Lost Mothers
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Interview with the cast of Scenes from Lost Mothers

Claire Bayley, Shabina Cannon and Ro Florence share their experience of Clean Break's Acting Traineeship programme
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Hearts, minds and bodies: cultural power will end the imprisonment of pregnant women and mothers

Janey Starling is co-director of Level Up, a feminist organisation that campaigns for an end to the imprisonment of pregnant women and mothers. After seeing Clean Break's play Scenes from Lost Mothers, she writes about the power of culture in creating political change.
Anna Herrmann and Neetu Singh

Behind the Scenes from Lost Mothers

Director Anna Herrmann and Assistant Director Neetu Singh discuss the process of creating Clean Break's touring play
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The Lost Mothers Project: Revealing the Hidden Trauma of Maternal Separation in Prison

Midwife and researcher Dr Laura Abbott shares insights from her ground-breaking research project
a woman looks out of the window of a prison van

Sweatbox

Chloë Moss’s Clean Break play is transformed into an electric adaptation for the screen.
ro florence

Arts for Impact with the Cast of Scenes from Lost Mothers

Claire Bayley, Shabina Cannon and Ro Florence talk about the transformative impact of theatre for the people on stage and in the audience

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Creative Wellbeing Video Series

Michelle Hamilton standing in a studio, with illustrations of colourful lines around her, she has one hand on her heart and one hand on her stomach

Creative Wellbeing: Movement

Support your wellbeing through movement. Clean Break Member artist Michelle Hamilton takes us through some of her favourite exercises.
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Creative Wellbeing: Singing

Support your wellbeing through singing. Facilitator JB Rose takes us through a vocal exercise.
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Creative Wellbeing: Mindfulness

Support your wellbeing through breathwork. Clean Break Member artist Nicole takes us through a mindfulness exercise.

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a screenshot of tracey anderson talking to the camera, an illustration of a boiling pot is in the corner

Bitesize Learning: Holding Trauma Responses with Care

How do Clean Break facilitators hold spaces safely when trauma responses show up?
Lakesha talks to the camera, illustrated pink swirls surround her

Bitesize Learning: Creative Activity Ideas for Frontline Workers

Three top tips for how to bring creativity into your work as a frontline practitioner.
a screenshot of Anna talking to the audience, there are colourful illustrated lines around her head

Bitesize Learning: Overcoming Self Limiting Beliefs at Work

Understand how self-limiting beliefs could be holding you back and achieve your full potential.

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Bitesize Learning: Overcoming Self Limiting Beliefs at Work

Understand how self-limiting beliefs could be holding you back and achieve your full potential.
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About us

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Clean Break changes lives and changes minds through theatre – on stage, in prison and in the community. We produce ground-breaking plays with women’s voices at the heart of our work and use theatre to transform the lives of women with experience of the criminal justice system or at risk of entering it.

Our History

Clean Break Theatre Company with the Mayor of Camden outside HMP Holloway, 1986
Clean Break was established by two women in prison in 1979, at HMP Askham Grange, who believed that theatre could bring the hidden stories of women who are criminalised to a wider audience. Explore Clean Break’s radical and unique story in our interactive digital archive.

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