Ransom, Texas

presented by Virago Theatre Company

Thursdays-Saturdays through October 18

The Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, Oakland, 510-858-7383

$15-$30

https://www.viragotheatre.org/ransom–texas.html

https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=45726

http://www.theflightdeck.org

“Virago is proud to produce the World Premiere of hot Bay Area playwright William Bivins’ Ransom, Texas! In a small West Texas town, two men locked in the office of a factory battle for power using whatever they’ve got: manipulation, mind-games, lies, and brute force. This savage, emotionally compelling two man tour-de-force will blow your socks off.

William Bivins is an award-winning playwright whose productions include The Education of a Rake (Central Works), The Apotheosis of Pig Husbandry (SF Playhouse), The Position (PianoFight) and The Afterlife of the Mind (Virago Theatre Company), among others. His drama Ransom, Texas (Pacific Repertory Theatre) won the 2010 Hyperion Project Original Play Competition. His Biblical comedy Pulp Scripture (Original Sin/PianoFight) won the 2009 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Original Script and grabbed eight SF Fringe Awards, including Best New Comedy.

William was the most produced playwright of the 2009/2010 San Francisco Bay Area season, was one of twelve Bay Area playwrights chosen for the 2008 Theatre Bay Area/TheatreWorks Playwrights Showcase, and has been a finalist for the Heideman

Award in the National Ten-minute Play Contest. He has participated in the Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshop since 2001, is a member of the Monday Night Playwrights Group and the Dramatists Guild. He lives in San Francisco.”