David Cromer Set to Direct Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company’s CHERRYWOOD

Chicago Director David Cromer will helm Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company's production of 'Cherrywood' in June 2010.

According to press notes, 'Cherrywood' was written as a series of simple lines, a play without characters, allowing the actors to assemble their roles from the lines they chose to speak, originally devised and created by the Rude Mechanicals and Kirk Lynn (Austin, TX) in 2004.

"Welcome to the neighborhood. CHERRYWOOD is probably unlike any place you've lived before. Or maybe it actually is all the neighborhoods you've ever lived in." What starts off as a simple housewarming party, careens into a recruitment mission where werewolves cut frustrated party-goers from the herd, one-by-one, offering personal transformation in the form of a glass of milk. But someone brought a gun to the party and hiding it will only randomize the victim. The solution to the mystery is not who is responsible for the trauma, but what trauma we would inflict if we were responsible for making the world in the image of our desires. This is a high-larious and intriguing bender loaded with great music, social commentary, and cutting edge structure. Sure, to be one wild ride!"

Cromer's production of ‘Our Town' is currently playing Off-Broadway; he is also directing this season's Broadway revivals of Neil Simon's ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs' and ‘Broadway Bound'.

For more information on the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company, please visit http://www.maryarrchie.com/