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Out There's 'Jack &' considers a life after prisonFriday, January 18, 2019 by Jay Gabler inArts & LeisureImage courtesy Walker Art CenterAmerica's incarceration obsession is a problem of vast scope, with complex and oftentragic consequences.OUT THERE 2019: TRANSNATIONAL/TRANSDISCIPLINARY(HTTP://WWW.CITYPAGES.COM/CALENDAR/OUT-THERE-2019-TRANSNATIONALTRANSDISCIPLINARY/499390421)Walker Art Center $25-$30InJACK &, theater artist Kaneza Schaal and her collaborators approach the problem by spotlightingone aspect, gently but provocatively turning it around and around to examine. Their subject is the adjustment from prison to a life beyond walls. Released prisoners facesevere discrimination, both official and unofficial, but that's not Schaal's primary focushere. Rather, in collaboration with performer Cornell Alston and writer/designerChristopher Myers, she seeks to demonstrate how prison can warp one's perspective,leaving the released prisoner with a sense of being a fish out of water in his...