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OUTzone talks to Playwright Adam Bock!

October 13, 2006

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chatter_bock_320x240.jpgOUTzone caught up with playwright Adam Bock just after his new play, The Thugs opened at Soho Rep last week. Since then, he's receieved rave reviews in Variety.com.

He’s cute as pie, charming as a Canadian (he's authentic!) and smart as hell. He sat down and talked with us about theater, the financial life of actors, and what it means to be a “gay playwright” these days.

OZ: Your play, The Thugs opened last weekend. How did the opening go?
It went gorgeously. They’re such good actors. My God.

OZ: What’s it about?
It’s a play about seven temps who are working on the ninth floor of a high rise building of a law firm. They’re doing really dull work, temping and coding in a law firm and they think someone might be killing people in the building, but they don’t know because they’re temps and nobody tells them anything. So the play is about the rumors and where they get their information, do they get information, is it right, is it wrong, and how groups deal with fear.

It’s kind of about fear and how we get so afraid of something that we ignore the stuff that’s right in front of us. It’s an echo of what the war is doing to us. We spend all this time over there, and we ignore what’s going on over here, and I feel like that’s a silly way of being.

And it’s also just about temps and about the idea that there are people who are disposable and how they’re treated in that way. It’s called The Thugs because the times – I feel like we’re living in a thuggish community sometimes. How we treat each other. And what passes as civility.

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cynthia carby wrote:

I would love to see the play "Thursday" on broadway. When might that come to fruition? I know just the actor for the part, my son, Tommy Heleringer. He was wonderful in Williamstown.

posted at May 27, 2008 12:44 PM

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