I suppose you could call this young
Irish lad a misfit, unemployed (at the time) and a user of drugs. When
his partner leaves him, he is devastated. Soon after, he is invited by a
friend to help him to film conditions at an orphanage in Uganda and he
figures why not. In his play, written by O'Callaghan and directed by Tom
Ormeny, he details the poverty, filth, diseases, and retched conditions he
finds in that country, and in particular, the orphanage where he happens
upon a three-year-old boy with whom he falls in love with at first sight.
Johnny never had any thoughts of
becoming a father, but what hit him changed his life forever. He decided
to adopt the boy, never realizing what obstacles he would be facing in
order to do so. But this young man was so transformed that nothing was
going to stop him from his objective. Going through a nine-month period
of making it happen is detailed in this play and performed with such
sincerity as to make one fall in love with the boy he named Odin (after
the Norse God) and to have great respect for Johnny O'Callaghan.
The Victory Theatre Center is located
at 3326 W. Victory Blvd. in Burbank. Who's Your Daddy? plays
Fridays and Saturday at 8 PM, Sundays at 4 PM, through December 18, 2011.
Tickets and further information are available by calling (818) 841-5422,
or online at
www.thevictorytheatrecenter.org.
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