Click Here for the Post Esther Freud went to prison was five years ago. Luckily, not as an inmate but to research her new play, Stitchers, which tells the story of a group of prisoners who are rehabilitated through learning how to sew.
One of the first inmates she met was a man in a wheelchair, incarcerated on the Isle of Wight. He was doing an intricate piece of embroidery featuring two artichokes. At one point, he became very agitated, physically threatening and shouted at the volunteer that there was “a real problem”.
“I was really nervous,” says Freud, who witnessed the whole scene. “My heart was thumping.”
It turned out the cause of his anger was quite prosaic: “He said: ‘This cream wool is not the same shade…
