Emmy Award winner, Joe Pantoliano, makes his return to theater in Tom Diriwachter's Great Kills. A prolific film and TV actor, he has played many diverse and memorable roles, including Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto in The Sopranos, Cypher in The Matrix, Teddy in Memento, and the ruthless pimp Guido in Risky Business.
Great Kills, written in a style reminiscent of such plays as David Mamet's American Buffalo, and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, is a darkly comic, emotionally gripping tale of a get-rich-quick scheme that goes awry.
With the changing landscape of mental health, Meadowbrook, the institution where Mr. G has worked in maintenance for over thirty years, is shutting down. When Mr. G mentions to his son, Tim, who's living home after having lost his position as an adjunct professor of literature, how the institution's furniture -- "the kind of stuff you find in a doctor's office" -- is lying abandoned in a field, he dreams of making a fortune from selling the salvage. To finance the plan, he involves his estranged childhood friend, restaurateur, Robert. Over the course of a drunken evening of scheming, the plan becomes less real, as the men's desperate realities become more apparent, and a devastating family secret is revealed.
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