THE STORY: BIG AL gives us Leo, Al Pacino’s biggest, you might say obsessed, fan whose apartment is decorated with Pacino posters and props. After meeting a woman who works for Pacino’s film production company, Leo has a chance to present a script tailor-made for Pacino. With his good friend, Ricky, they come up with a plot for a movie while Leo proposes wilder and wilder hypothetical situations for what he and Ricky might have to do to get this movie made. Wanting to work around the clock to finish the script, making it his reason for living, Leo makes it clear to Ricky he’s about to go over the edge. In a short time Leo becomes violent and the more realistic Ricky hurries out to get help, leaving Leo alone with his dreams of Al Pacino.
Originally produced at Ensemble Studio Theater’s Marathon Festival of New One-Act Plays in New York.
Included in the collection
Big Al and My Side of the Story.
