"Funny and Provocative" New Comedy The Typographer's Dream
Thick House (1695 18th St. San Francisco, CA 94102)
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- $20.00
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- FREE - $10.00*
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The last date listed for The Typographer's Dream was Sunday March 20, 2005 / 5:00pm.
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- "Imaginative...comedic and absurd...original." Backstage
- "Adam Bock has taken a surprising and intriguing look at the much neglected world of work." Culture Wars
- "Exhilarating theater emerges from...Adam Bock's funny, provocative, psychologically revealing and thoroughly enjoyable new play...delightfully performed and exceptionally staged." --San Francisco Chronicle
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Adam Bock's signature syncopation provides the rhythm for this hilarious story of borders, letters, fonts and friendships. Anne Kauffman directs.
Adam Bock says: "I started The Typographer's Dream by wanting to write about a typographer. My job at the time was as an assistant to the principals of a design firm called MetaDesign - they did the most amazing graphic and web design, and while I worked there I fell in love with typography - which is the designing of text, the letters themselves and how they are placed on the page. Then I thought "well, if I write about a typographer, I should write about a geographer too. And maybe about a stenographer." That made me laugh. Then I started thinking about our work, and the question of "am I my work?" and how what we do every day creates the world we live in. I thought it would be interesting to use people's work to create their characters - for example, a geographer is concerned with boundaries - could a geographer have trouble with the boundaries in her own life?"
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