Shoot O'Malley Twice November 4, 2011

November 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 25 & 26, 8pm

In 1957 New York City, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants play their last games, and emotions are running high. In a shabby hotel room, the stakes are even higher as Billy Future and every odds-evens shooter in town duke it out for big money and bragging rights. Billy has something special -- he's a psychic who sees deep. But when The Savannah Kid rolls into town, the order of things is upended, and not even Billy can predict what's coming next.
Predestination, alternate realities, race relations, Robert Moses, quantum mechanics, September 11, and baseball all wrapped around a child's game played by dissolute adults in this fast-paced, existentially comic World Premiere by San Francisco playwright Jon Brooks, directed by Angela Dant.

SF Playwright, Jon Brooks, has established himself as a playwright to watch, with productions in the Bay Area, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, and Bologna, Italy. He has written for the Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe and has been a regularly featured playwright in the annual Bay One Acts Festival in San Francisco. The SF Bay Times called his "Catcher in the Rye, Cancelled" a "riotous parody."

Shoot O'Malley Twice is receiving its world premiere with Virago Theatre Company's production after it has had two staged readings by the Playwrights Center of San Francisco and Virago Theatre Company. The play was a finalist for the 2009 Yale Drama Series Prize.

The outstanding cast for Shoot O'Malley Twice includes Christy Crowley, Alex Goldenberg, Naomi Hummel, Paul Jennings, Dorian Lockett, Dennis McIntyre, Eric O'Kelly, Shane Rhoads and Elmer Strasser.

Official Website: http://www.viragotheatre.org