12 Peers Presents the Pittsburgh Premiere of Lisa D'Amour's DETROIT

By: Apr. 26, 2015
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12 Peers will close its 2015 Season with the Pittsburgh Premiere of Lisa D'Amour's Detroit, a 2011 Pulitzer Prize and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, directed by Founding Artistic Director, Vince Ventura.

About the Play

In a first-ring suburb just outside a city that might be Detroit, Ben and Mary see sudden signs of life at the deserted house next door and invite their new neighbors Sharon and Kenny over for a barbecue. As the action unfolds we learn that Sharon and Kenny met at rehab, neither is employed, and they don't own a stick of furniture. The quintessential American back-yard party quickly turns into something more dangerous-and filled with potential.

About the Playwright

Lisa D'Amour is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. She is one half of the OBIE-Award winning performance duo PearlDamour, whose work has been presented by HERE Arts Center, PS122, The Whitney Museum of Art, the Walker Arts Center and the FuseBox Festival. Her plays have been commissioned and produced by theaters across the country, including The Women's Project, Playwrights Horizons, Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, Clubbed Thumb, (all in NYC), Children's Theater Company (Minneapolis), Steppenwolf Theater Company (Chicago) The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington D.C.) and the Royal National Theater (London). Lisa's play Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. She is the recipient of the 2008 Alpert Award for the Arts in theater, the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Award and is a recipient of the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.

About the Company

12 Peers Theater was founded in 2011. Taking the name from the Twelve Peers of Charlemagne, its mission is to provide challenging and engaging theater for Pittsburgh audiences. 12 Peers Theater highlights social, political, and ethical issues in classical and contemporary works exploring myth and cultural identity, endeavoring to open a dialogue with the audience. Detroit performs May 14-30, 2015.

All shows at The Maker Theater, 5950 Ellsworth Ave., Pittsburgh. Thurs - Sat., 8 p.m.; Pay-What-You-Can Industry Night, Monday May 18, 8 pm; Tickets $17 Online, $20 at the door / $15 with student ID. Tickets & Info: 12peerstheater.org.



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