The arrival of a new Adam Bock play is always an event.
Even though the Canadian playwright decided to forgo the pleasures of life in the Bay Area for the rigors of a New York writer’s existence, we still love him. And as long as he sends us a play every now and then (like The [...]
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Bock, Beck hit `Drunken City’
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Posted by Chad Jones on 29 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
Review: ‘The Shaker Chair’
Posted by Chad Jones on 21 Dec 07 - 2 Comments
Dramatic Shaker Chair unseats expectations
three stars Stirring
Marion loves her new chair. It’s a beautiful wood straight back with woven seats. It’s a copy of a Shaker chair, and though she finds it beautiful, Marion admits that the chair isn’t very comfortable.
“The Shakers didn’t believe in sitting around,” she tells us. “There was no procrastination…I should [...]
Bock builds a ‘Shaker Chair’
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Posted by Chad Jones on 13 Dec 07 - 0 Comments
Sure Adam Bock misses his friends in the Bay Area. But the Canadian playwright, who moved from San Francisco to New York about five years ago, really misses the food.
“Food in San Francisco is so yummy,” he says. “It’s just not the same in New York. I don’t know what it is about the Bay [...]
Bock in black
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Posted by Chad Jones on 23 May 07 - 1 Comment
We can claim Adam Bock as a San Francisco playwright, but that’s really not quite accurate.
The talented writer basically used the Bay Area as a way station between his native Canada and the greener pastures of New York. But it must be said, the pastures were pretty green in San Francisco, where Bock made a [...]
