Professor Gino Diiorio’s new play “Sam and Dede” (or “My Dinner with Andre the Giant”) will receive its world premiere at the Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco, Feb. 11-March 5.

It’s a totally true story: 12-year-old Andre the Giant, already over 6 feet tall and 240 pounds, didn’t fit on the school bus. Andre’s neighbor, as repayment of a favor, offered to drive Andre to school in his truck. The neighbor was Samuel Beckett. Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with Andre the Giant, imagines a series of scenes between a giant — a man who cannot hide — and a writer obsessed with silence. Dilorio fashions a world as absurd as a Beckett play itself.

The play will be directed by Clark alumna Leah Abrams ’96. For more information, visit custommade.org.