(Cincinnati, OH — July 10, 2026) One Off Productions is excited to present the second show of its 2026 season: The Sunset Limited, written by Cormac McCarthy, most well-known for his acclaimed novels Blood Meridian and The Road, among others. The Sunset Limited runs July 23-August 1 at Gabriel’s Corner in Over-the-Rhine and follows The Pyromaniacs, the absurdist morality tale which ran this spring.
In The Sunset Limited, an ex-con from the South saves the life of an intellectual atheist who wasn’t looking for salvation on a subway platform in New York City. The reformed murderer-turned-savior ventures to offer salvation of another kind, bringing the failed suicide victim back to his Harlem apartment for an articulate and moving debate about truth, fiction and belief. The two-person cast features local acting veterans Sylvester Little, Jr. and Michael G. Bath.
Director Rupert Spraul says, “The Sunset Limited is a conversation that wrestles with faith and futility. Cormac McCarthy is working out questions with himself and attempts to litigate whether life means anything at all. Are we just a cosmic accident, flailing in the desolate void dumbstruck at the view of our own hubris and screaming atrocities? Is there something at the core that yearns for, and can fulfill, communion with a creator? No one has an answer, though some claim to, and everyone yearns for one. You can cling to belief and you can cling to despair. Which is the delusion?”
The Sunset Limited runs at Gabriel’s Corner, 1425 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, OH, 45202 on:
Thursday, July 23 at 7:30pm
Friday, July 24 at 7:30pm
Saturday, July 25 at 7:30pm
Thursday, July 30 at 7:30pm
Friday, July 31 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 1 at 7:30pm
Doors open at 7pm. Tickets are $20. Ticket and show information available at www.oopstroupe.com or find ticket information directly at https://square.link/u/LMtMC8w2.
About One-Off Productions:
One-Off Productions (OOPs) is a grassroots independent arts initiative in Cincinnati, OH, making impactful, accessible, professional, experimental art.
Find us on Instagram at @one.off.productions or Facebook
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