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Hear from our Members and find resources for women with experience of the criminal justice system, or who are at risk of entering it.

Clean Break's Online Film Festival 2024

Films from Clean Break and beyond, hosted on our Knowledge Hub
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Adra Ni Y Môr: Clean Break Member Review

Member Sofi M shares her interpretation of the film Adra Ni Y Môr

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Member Film Reviews

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Adra Ni Y Môr: Clean Break Member Review

Member Sofi M shares her interpretation of the film Adra Ni Y Môr
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Violet Gave Willingly: Clean Break Member Review

Member artist Kim Theresa (KT) Marsh shares her interpretation of the film Violet Gave Willingly
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Home: Clean Break Member Review

Member Claire shares her review of the film Home
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Hope: Clean Break Member Review

Member Susannah shares her interpretation of our film Hope
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Buddleia: Clean Break Member Review

Member Pepe shares her interpretation of the film Buddleia: The Unchained Story
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Sandwiches: Clean Break Member Review

Member Su shares her thoughts on the film Sandwiches
Natasha Jean Sparkes in Boiling Frogs

Boiling Frogs: Clean Break Member Review

Member Claire shares her interpretation of the film Boiling Frogs

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Starring Clean Break Member Artists

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Home

How does it feel to be free? Best friends Kay and Jenna are reuniting after being separated by prison. But reigniting what they had before isn’t straightforward.
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More Than One Story

Short films from Cardboard Citizens, starring Clean Break Member artists
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Hope

A film from Clean Break

Sweatbox

Chloë Moss’s Clean Break play is transformed into an electric adaptation for the screen.
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Without Walls

Five Clean Break Members share their experiences of HMP Holloway

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Futures

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After Time

Three men share the damaging effects that criminalisation has had on their lives, and how they have found ways to move forward.
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Wings

A love letter from the late Sonya Hale, written as a signal of hope to her son after she’s gone.
two young women lying on the grass laughing

Home

How does it feel to be free? Best friends Kay and Jenna are reuniting after being separated by prison. But reigniting what they had before isn’t straightforward.
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Hope

A film from Clean Break
a photo of a prison gate leading to a green space

Without Walls

Five Clean Break Members share their experiences of HMP Holloway

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10 Stories by Black Artists Which Reclaim the Narrative

Clean Break's Associate Artistic Director Lakesha Arie-Angelo shares her picks from stage and screen for Black History Month
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Buddleia: the Unchained Story

The tale of Brenda, also known as Lady Unchained, a poet, performer, broadcaster and advocate for life after prison.
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No Comprendo

A short-authored documentary about language and communication in the criminal justice system.

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More Than One Story

Short films from Cardboard Citizens, starring Clean Break Member artists
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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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