The Seafarer at Murphey School (Burning Coal Theatre), 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC

It's Christmas Eve in Dublin and Sharky has just lost his job and returned home to take care of his newly blind brother Richard. They are soon visited by their bumbling friend Ivan to have a few jars of Christmas Cheer and play a few friendly hands of poker when in walks young Nicky, who has brought with him the mysterious Mr. Lockhart. A terrible secret and dark discoveries turn this friendly game of poker into a deadly competition as Sharky tries to outrun the sins of his past. The cast features Randolph Curtis Rand, Simon Kaplan, Chip Carey, Andrew Price Carlile, and Matt Donohue, directed by Jerome Davis.