Detroit's Theatre Co. Has Moonlight Room, Cycling Past the Matterhorn, A Patch of Earth in 2004-05

By Kenneth Jones
July 13, 2004

The Theatre Company, the respected hybrid troupe that mixes professionals and undergrads at The University of Detroit Mercy, will stage three Michigan premieres in its 2004-05 season.

The 34th season begins with Deborah Grimberg's Cycling Past the Matterhorn, seen in the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. David L. Regal directs the British-set Cycling, about a young mediocre psychic and her eccentric mother, who is slowly going blind. Performances are Nov. 18-Dec. 5. This marks the Michigan premiere of the quirky play about a daughter's choices.

The UDM troupe is regularly reviewed in Detroit newspapers and is known for introducing Michigan audiences to writers such as Jane Martin (Talking With).

Also announced for the company's 2004-05 season is the Michigan premiere of The Moonlight Room, Tristine Skyler's Off-Broadway play about young people waiting in a hospital E.R.'s reception room. Yolanda Fleischer will directs Oct. 7-24.

The Michigan premiere of Kitty Felde's A Patch of Earth, directed by Arthur J. Beer, plays Feb. 3-13, 2005. The drama concerns a Croatian man, Drazen Erdemovic, who took part in the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys outside of Srebrenica. He fought in the Bosnian-Serb army and became the first person to be sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia.

In spring 2005, Stephen Schwartz's Godspell will be presented in a co-production between The Theatre Company and Marygrove College.

All shows are performed at the Marygrove College Theatre. For information, call (313) 993-6461.