Through dance, music, theatre, and digital technology, a physical and psychological landscape emerges where control, fear, hope, and resistance coexist. Prison Episodes is inspired by real experiences of political imprisonment and created by Iranian composer and theatre artist Pouya Pour Amin, drawing on his own experience as a political prisoner in Tehran.

“Prison Episodes reflects on the profound and devastating realities of imprisonment, from my own and others’ experiences. Political imprisonment is a global crisis that should no longer exist. To imprison someone for their ideas and thoughts is a profound injustice.”
— Pouya Pour Amin

On stage, human bodies and digital figures meet in a landscape where the boundaries between the physical and the virtual are constantly shifting. Choreographers and performers Anne Golberg Stavn and Jens Trinidad move through a world shaped by tension, confinement, and transformation, in dialogue with actor Saba Pouyeshman and digital artist Øystein Sørum.

Prison Episodes explores how art can function as testimony, resistance, and an attempt to preserve humanity under extreme circumstances.