They Returned to Prison to Bring ‘Sing Sing’ to Life
Novelist and writer John “Divine G” Whitfield constantly dreamt of being in a movie.
He had a very specific idea, though. He wanted to be in a movie that centered around his time at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison, where he and some of his fellow incarcerated men graduated from the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program.
The program allowed incarcerated people to stage theatrical productions, including, as dramatized in the new movie Sing Sing, the troupe’s first original play, Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code: a time-traveling Shakespearean satire where the protagonist encounters pirates, Prince Hamlet, and Freddy Krueger while on a trip to Egypt.