Gino DiIorio’s play, “Sam and Dede, or My Dinner With André the Giant,” is now on stage at the Washington Stage Guild in a production that has been reviewed by the Washington Post.

The play is based on a bit of trivia: 12-year old Andre the Giant, already well over 6 feet tall and 240 pounds, didn’t fit on the school bus. Andre’s neighbor, feeling sorry for the boy, offered to drive him to school in his truck. The neighbor was Samuel Beckett. “Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with Andre the Giant” imagines a number of scenes between a giant who cannot hide and a writer obsessed with silence.

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