STAGE TUBE: Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan Talk About WHORL INSIDE A LOOP

After a bit of funny banter, co-authors Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan delve into the serious subject of their new play that opens tonight at Second Stage, WHORL INSIDE A LOOP.

WHORL INSIDE A LOOP was inspired by their own experiences teaching a storytelling workshop to prison inmates. Scott plays a Broadway actress teaching a weekly workshop with an ensemble of six men playing her students and other various characters.

No, they don't explain what the title means. See the play and find out for yourself.

WHORL INSIDE A LOOP is a new play by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott and co-directed by Michael Mayer and Mr. Scanlan, the creative team behind the Tony-nominated, critically acclaimed hit, EVERYDAY RAPTURE, which had its world premiere at Second Stage Theatre in 2009. Sherie Rene Scott is joined by Derrick Baskin (...SPELLING BEE), Nicholas Christopher (MOTOWN), Chris Myers (AN OCTOROON), Ryan Quinn (KING LEAR), Daniel J. Watts (IN THE HEIGHTS) and Donald Webber, Jr. (MOTOWN).

A well-regarded actress agrees to teach six inmates how to tell their stories behind the bars of a men's maximum security prison. Sharing intimate and sometimes hilarious details of their former lives, this unlikely group forms a bond -- even as the actress' life outside spins out of control. And when what happens in prison doesn't stay there, no one is sure who to trust. From the team that brought you EVERYDAY RAPTURE, this new play features Sherie Rene Scott and six men playing two dozen characters in a constant shifting of scenes, ages, genders and races. Whorl Inside a Loop explores the fine line between convicted felons and the criminal inside each of us, the viability of forgiveness and the unreliability of redemption.