The Shaker Chair

written by resident playwright Adam Bock
directed by Tracy Ward

a co-production with the Shotgun Players

December 12, 2007 - January 27, 2008
at the Ashby Stage, Berkeley [directions]
Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 5pm

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"All things have the right to live and to flourish. Not just us."

A new play by recent Obie award winner Adam Bock, author of Five Flights and The Typographer's Dream. A widow invests in a restored Shaker chair and discovers the intent of the design: it makes you want to get up and do something.

The widow finds herself inspired to enact both personal and political changes when her friend discovers that a factory is leaking sewage into groundwater. 

Using wit and environmental activism Bock's play asks us: how far are you willing to go to fight injustice? And can you live with the consequences?

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