Whorl Inside a Loop
"Theatricalizing the personal narrative" is written on the chalkboard. It's something Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan have done successfully (see Everyday Rapture ), and something, mostly on a lark, they ended up teaching to a group of incarcerated men. In Whorl Inside a Loop (the title refers to your fingerprint), an actress volunteers at a men's prison, and teaches the men, all of whom have been convicted of murder, to express themselves, rehabilitating them through the arts. (Though Scott and Scanlan did teach in a prison, and many of the stories come from actual prisoners, the play is, ultimately, a true work of fiction.) In doing so, the men express that they are not the worst thing they've done. Indeed, these men—all people, in fact—can be the perfect peacock eye whorl, so much good and so much bad in one person. (As a guard says of Sunnyside (a cunningly charismatic Derrick Baskin ), "He's committed the most violent, most unforgivable ...