SULLIVAN AND THE SHOOTER is a gritty one-act play set in a pool room. It chronicles an hour in the lives of two men --- the Shooter, a street wise player who offers survival advice in billiard terms, and Sullivan, a person immune to anyone’s advice and destined to be forever blind-sided by life.
SULLIVAN AND THE SHOOTER
A play by Robert N. Pollock
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Rob Pollock (right) directing Sullivan and the Shooter
Cast and crew watching video footage after a day’s shoot.
Rob Pollock, Jack Cummins and Wayne Miller during shooting.
SULLIVAN AND THE SHOOTER A play by Robert N. Pollock
SULLIVAN AND THE SHOOTER was videotaped at Chinatown Billiards, New York, and broadcast on Manhattan Cable Television in 1979. It was also performed onstage at the Circle Rep Lab in New York in 1979.
Television broadcast cast and crew:
Robert N. Pollock: writer and director
Jack Cummins: hand-held video camera
Angelo DiGiacomo: stationary video camera
Wayne Miller and Jack’s crew: sound
Pandy Chaipis: continuity
Wayne Miller and Jack’s crew: still photography
The actors:
Sullivan: Terry Sullivan
Shooter: Larry McCarthy
Hawk: Buzz Mandel
Man, aka Arcade Johnny: Hass Murphy
Dark Man: Rudolph Montenez
Phantom: Rob Pollock
Barney: Victor Pesce
Circle Rep Lab performances:
Peter M. Gordon, director
L. J. Kearney, stage manager
The actors:
Sullivan: Mark Robert Myers
Shooter: Ray Shaub
Hawk: Matthew Gottlieb
Arcade Johnny: Michael Mastrototaro
Dark Man: Stuart Rudin
Phantom: Jon Wool
Barney: Dana Bate
© Script pages from SULLIVAN AND THE SHOOTER, copyright Robert N. Pollock, used by permission of the writer.
© Still photos reprinted from contact sheet images, used by permission of Robert N. Pollock
© Web page copyright Wayne Miller
For information on Robert Pollock go to the Links page or to “Letters from the Hotel Aroma” in the Gallery page.
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Before launching this webpage I asked Rob Pollock for advice about describing “Sullivan and the Shooter”. This was his reply.
