Event

Den of Thieves

Written By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Adam Macy

CAST
Nicole Day...Maggie
John Davies...Paul
Samir Forghani...Flaco
Jessica Rose-Felix...Boochie
Andrew Cottrell...Sal
Ben Goldsmith...Little Tuna
Michael Gantz...Big Tuna

Den of Thieves premiered in New York in 1996 in a production by Philip Seymour Hoffman's The LAByrinth Theater with Sam Rockwell as Flaco.

Maggie is a newly single, junk-food-binging shoplifter looking to change her life and her self-hating ways. Paul is her passionately convicted, formerly four-hundred-pound compulsive-overeating sponsor in a twelve-step program for recovering thieves. Maggie's jealous ex-boyfriend is a charismatic wannabe Puerto Rican small-time thief of uncertain ancestry named Flaco who spins a grammatically challenged but persuasive yarn about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in unprotected drug money sitting in a safe in a downtown disco guarded by an easily distracted crackhead. This dubious and ragtag would-be criminal crew is rounded out by Flaco's new girlfriend, the fabulous Boochiea malaprop-slinging topless dancer who refuses to let her troubled childhood or her third-grade reading level stand in the way of her inevitable path to fame, fortune and fur. When things don't quite go according to plan, this bickering quartet of hapless thieves finds themselves at the mercy of Louie "The Little Tuna" Pescatore, a reluctant, donut-ingesting heir to the criminal empire run by his father"The Big Tuna"who has left him in charge for the weekend and Sal, nephew to the Big Tuna and always thrilled at the chance to pull his trigger.