SAM AND DEDE, OR MY DINNER WITH ANDRE THE GIANT at Washington Stage Guild

an eye-opening account of two very unexpected friends and their influence on each other through the decades. Their unlikely friendship began when aspiring writer Samuel Beckett, an Irish expatriate in France, gave young Andre Roussimoff (whose remarkable size made him the object of derision) rides to school each day, discussing playwriting, pro wrestling, and where their lives would lead them. An Area Premiere.