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Guest artist Gary Anderson, a 2016 Kresge Artist Fellow and Artistic Director of Detroit’s Plowshares Theatre Company, directs the premiere work of acclaimed playwright, Garlia Cornelia Jones. Pingree’s Past is a brand new play set in contemporary Detroit.

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck, the mischievous fairy, make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master, Oberon, the king of the fairies, play a trick on the fairy queen. Along the way, a band of bumbling worksman gather together to rehearse a play only to get mixed up in the magic as well. All this under the bright light of a midsummer night’s moon.

Written by Naomi Iizuka. Separated from his mother, a young refugee called Anon journeys through the United States, encountering a wide variety of people — some kind, some dangerous and cruel — as he searches for his family. From a sinister one-eyed butcher to beguiling barflies to a sweatshop, Anon must navigate through a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.