05/23/2026
"Pro wrestling's roots are scrappy and unpolished," notes playwright Bill Daniel, "That kind of intimate feel made putting up this show at The Factory Theater feel like a no-brainer."
"Growing up, admitting you liked wrestling felt like a mark of shame, but with this play, what I’ve discovered is that I have always been surrounded by people like me, who appreciate the wonder and the spectacle of wrestling. People who live vicariously through these titans that put their bodies on the line every night to pop a crowd. My goal with this play was to show wrestling, warts and all, and the toll it takes on a person, mentally and physically.”
“The day I might try to write a wrestling play seemed inevitable. But I wanted the story I told to mean something. And the story that kept coming back to me over and over again was the story of Bruiser Brody.”
“Brody was killed in the locker room after a show in Puerto Rico. But it wasn’t Brody I kept thinking of. I imagined what it might feel like to be his child. To grow up and try to make a name for yourself in the same business. The business that he literally died for. I imagined the lengths someone might go to dig themselves out of that shadow. And with that, the story almost literally fell out of me.”
Come see Bill’s loving ode to grief, legacy, and found family when Two Out of Three Falls opens June 11. Tickets on sale at https://thefactorytheater.com/
