Survivor: A song cycle based on the poetry of Tona Mills
SURVIVOR a song cycle based on the poetry of Tona Mills Thursday, October 29th – 7:30pm BUS STOP THEATRE 2203 Gottingen St. Kjipuktuk / Halifax “I spent years in a tiny cell / my captors never knew m…
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SURVIVOR
a song cycle based on the poetry of Tona Mills
Thursday, October 29th – 7:30pm
BUS STOP THEATRE
2203 Gottingen St. Kjipuktuk / Halifax
“I spent years in a tiny cell / my captors never knew me well…” (From “The Scar” by Tona Mills)
In 1994, Tona Mills was sentenced to four years in prison for discharging a firearm during a time of psychological distress. She was 19. This was the first in successive sentences she survived in prison until 2003, six years of which she spent in solitary confinement.
“Sometimes when you’re in there you feel so desperate. And my anger would be building up and my anger would be building up and so then when they let me out of my cell I’d assault someone…and the snowball kept rolling and rolling and rolling and the four year sentence turned into 10 years…”” Tona was diagnosed with isolation induced schizophrenia after her release and was then held in forensic psychiatric detention for another 15 years.
Knowing too well that so many people exper
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