STORY: Within the barbed wire-topped walls of this Greek prison, actors take to the stage.
Unlike most other shows, both the performers and the audience here are inmates at a maximum security jail in Athens.
The play is the ancient Greek tragedy of 'Antigone'.
It's a story about free will, disobedience and authority - themes to which the prisoners can relate.
The most political of Sophocles' work, it sees the protagonist disobey her uncle and the play's antagonist, King Creon, to bury her brother - all while grappling with life's written and unwritten rules.
Konstantinos Bougiotis plays Creon.
"You escape, you come out of the prison ward, and you talk about other things, you see another scene, you think differently, and you forget that you are in prison... You stop being in all this misery where you see only fences and walls, and where your time does not pass creatively."
The theater workshop at Korydallos prison, a sprawling complex in an impoverished part of the capital, offers respite from the mundane, grueling routine of daily prison life - and from the inmates' cramped, rowdy cells.
Two dozen men, aged between 24 and 63, had been practising for their performance for months.
Around 250 inmates have taken part in the prison's workshop since it launched in 2016.
And more than 1,800 have watched the shows.
One man even came back to take part in the performance, despite having been recently released.
The play's director Aikaterini Papageorgiou wanted to create something those incarcerated would find relatable.
"The work was chosen on the principle that it would have a direct thematic interest with the conditions here, with confinement. The gist of the play is about laws, and unwritten laws, in other words justice, law, and legality."
She added that directing the group through the toughest period of their life was a source of optimism for them.
It's very hopeful for humankind, for its strength, she said, and for redemption.
