THE FLOWERS by Adam Bock Premieres at About Face, 10/23

Adam Bock's new play, THE FLOWERS, will make its world premiere at the About Face CHICAGO XYZ Festival. The show makes his official opening on October 23rd and will run through November 7th. The cast will include Caron Buinis, Merrina Millsapp, Bruch Reed, Benjamin Sprunger, Brian-Mark Conover and Kieran Kredell.

Obie Award-winning playwright Adam Bock returns to Chicago with this witty love letter to the theatre. The gay couple that runs The Flowers acting troupe is as star-crossed as the forty-year-old actors they have playing Romeo and Juliet. For one of them, the world has become too small. The other can't imagine another life. Wry and real, this is a play about parting's sweet sorrow.

The show will play the About Face Theatre Company Thursdays through Sundays at 7:30pm. There will be a special performance on Monday, November 2nd at 7:30pm. The performances will take place at the Stage Left Theatre. Tickets are $20 and are available online or through the box office at 866-811-4111.

Adam Bock's plays include The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons), The Receptionist (Manhattan Theater Club), The Thugs (Soho Repertory, Obie Award), Swimming in the Shallows(Second Stage), The Shaker Chair (Humana Festival), and Five Flights (Rattlestick). The Typographer's Dream will be at The Vineyard this season. Bock also helped Jack Cummings III develop The Audience. He is the resident playwright at Encore Theater, a Shotgun Players Artistic Associate, and a member of New Dramatists. Adam's plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts Inc. and are featured in The Best Plays of 2005.

Working within and beyond the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, About Face Theatre is committed to innovation, artistic excellence and community transformation. Through our projects, we strive to challenge our artists' and audience's intellects, imaginations, self-conceptions, moral expectations, and ideas about gender and sexuality in contemporary and historical contexts.

About Face has three programming arms: its award-winning Mainstage Season, its innovative New Works Program, and our nationally recognized Education Programs, including the celebrated About Face Youth Theatre and Educational Outreach tour that collectively reach approximately 5,000 Illinois students and teachers each year.

About Face has emerged as one of Chicago's most respected theatres, and is quickly emerging as a national center for the development of gay and lesbian theatre.

For more information, visit www.aboutfacetheatre.com.