UnTheatre Co Starts The New Year At Planet Ant

UnTheatre Co makes Hamtramck its home for the first run of the new year, presenting Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at Planet Ant, January 11th-26th. Performances will run on Fridays at 10pm and Saturdays at 8pm and will take place at Planet Ant Black Box, located at 2357 Caniff St. in Hamtramck. There will be one late-night performance of crowd favorite the Durrty 30 on Saturday, January 19th at 11pm and a new option of a Sunday 6pm show on January 20th. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $15 plus the resulting number of the roll of a 6-sided die, or online for $21 with the resulting number of the roll of a 6-sided die being returned to you at the door. Additional discounts include $5 off for students, $3 off for groups of 10 or more and $2 off for Seniors, First Responders/Military and for Union members. All discounts are applied as cash back at the door. The Durrty 30 remains, as always, the roll of a 10-sided die only - or $11 online with the roll of the die refunded at the door. For further information or to purchase tickets in advance, visit www.untheatreco.org or call 313-444-0652.

Now midway through their second season, UnTheatre Co is being appreciated by audiences as "thought provoking", "refreshing", "cheeky", "lively" and "a welcome deviation from mainstream theatre". With a new menu every week and the audience in charge of the order of the performance it's impossible to see the same show twice which has audiences coming back again and again. UnSemble members write, direct, and perform their own original plays. Each play is delineated by a simple "Go" to begin and "Curtain" to end it, and the audience chooses the order of the plays based on a menu of numbered titles. At each performance, a six-sided die is rolled to decide how many plays will be replaced for the following weekend of performances.

Founder and Producer Christina Killmar had this to say about returning to Planet Ant, "It is such a fantastic venue. We love the work they are doing and are thrilled to be invited back to perform in their Black Box space. Many of our newest performers are Planet Ant trained and they've done an incredible job."

The "UnSemble" is comprised of performance artists and writers from all over the Southeast Michigan area. The cast of each weekend changes every week and is shared on UnTheatre Co's social media accounts.

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind promises to be UnLike Anything You've Ever Seen in Detroit.