Repeat Performance

1946 has been a bad year for celebrated Broadway actress Sheila Page, culminating with a few minutes before midnight she shooting her playwright husband Barney Page dead, she whose first Broadway hit was his last hit five years ago, his inability to write exacerbated by his increasing alcoholism. She ultimately turns to her poet friend William Williams, who has also had a bad year. She not only confides to him what she did to Barney, but muses to him that if she could do the year all over again, she would do it differently. What happens instantaneously after that statement is made at a few minutes after midnight is that time reverts back to one year earlier, January 1, 1946, something she quickly realizes, indeed giving her the opportunity to avoid the people that led to the problems, for William matron of the arts Eloise Shaw who expects something more than good work in return, and for Sheila herself writer Paula Costello in whose play "Say Goodbye" she is currently starring. In being her confidante the first time, Sheila takes William into her confidence again if only to warn him of what may happen. But Eloise and Paula enter and interact in their lives in different ways this second time around. Sheila has to find a way to escape, to take matters into her own hands or look for another destiny for themselves.