September 27-October 18, Thursdays-Saturdays 8pm. 9/27 and 9/29 are previews 9/27 at 8pm. 9/29 at 7pm
In a dying Texas town, a routine business deal erupts into a primal battle between father and son in local playwright William Bivins' taut, intelligent Ransom, Texas. Directed by Jon Tracy and designed by Nina Ball, Ransom comes on the heels of Virago's highly successful New York run of AROUSAL and The Lover at the Flea and brings Bivins back to Virago, where he also produced his dark comedy The Afterlife of the Mind in 2009.
Starring Dixon Phillips as Vern and Damien Seperi as Bruce, Ransom is an explosive, twisting game of one-upmanship that addresses Bivins' question, ""Can one escape one's fate?" Americans tend to be positivists: we think we have free will, and that we can decide the course of our lives through rational decision-making. Ransom poses the idea that the unseen and often irrational forces of Fate-whether you define "fate" in spiritual or scientific terms-might, in fact, be more instrumental in determining our outcomes. Are our decisions really our decisions?"
Described by director Tracy as "a captivating voice that is singular but also pays homage to some of our great American playwrights," Bivins has won several awards, including eight San Francisco Fringe Festival awards, the 2009 BATCC for Original Script, and Playground's 2013 Emerging Playwright Award, in addition to being nominated for several other honors. He is a 2014 PlayGround Fellow.
This production marks director Jon Tracy's debut with Virago. Tracy says that he jumped at the chance to direct Ransom and work with Virago. "[Artistic Director] Laura Lundy-Paine and Virago had always been a company I'd been interested in, run by people who respect what we're doing, see a possibility to another way a theater can be run, another way stories can be told, who take huge risks. The more I heard about Laura, the more I knew that we might be able to tell a good story together."
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