Bock's Obie Winning THE THUGS Now Playing at Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis

Adam Bock's THE THUGS is now playing at the Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis and runs through October 25th. The play won Bock an Obie Award in 2006. THE THUGS is directed by Steve Busa and Jairus Abts, Kirby Bennett, Leif Jurgensen, Julie Kurtz, Katherine Kupiecki, Miriam Must, Sigrid Sutter, and Toni Trussoni.

Fear, tension and panic abound on the 9th floor of a major downtown law firm as a group of temps discovers mysterious events occurring in the building. Are people disappearing, dying, or just not showing up to work? Playwright Adam Bock captures the dynamics of a dysfunctional workplace riddled with gossip, innuendo and quirky characters.

Adam Bock is a Canadian playwright currently living in the United States. He is an artistic associate of the Shotgun Players, an award-winning San Francisco theater group. His play Medea Eats was produced in 2000 by Clubbed Thumb, who subsequently premiered his play The Typographer's Dream in 2002. He won a 2006 Obie award for his play The Thugs. During the 2007-2008 New York theatrical season, two plays by Bock were produced Off Broadway: "The Receptionist" at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Drunken City, originally commissioned by the Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, New York, at Playwrights Horizons.

Bock is openly gay and often writes about homosexuality. He is quoted as saying "I'm a gay playwright. I like being called a gay playwright. It's who I am. It's how I write. I have a very specific take on the world because I'm gay."

Bock has been nominated for two 2007-2008 Outer Critics Circle Awards. Both "The Receptionist" and "The Drunken City" were nominated for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play.

THE THUGS plays October 12th and 25th and 7pm and 15th-17th and 22-24th at 8pm. Tickets range from $15-$18. Discouts are available with a valid student ID. Tickets may be purchased through the box office at 612-870-0309 or online at www.redeyetheater.org/showtickets.html.

For more information, visit Red Eye's website at www.redeyetheater.org.

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