WALK THE PLANK!
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Singer/actor/dancer Jeffrey
Polk, for example, who appeared
at the Fisher in Five Guys
Named Moe, recently led a dance
workshop. Mr. Sperling has in-
vested many 60-hour weeks to
step up activities. He and a tech-
nical director labored for free the
first year to get their project off
the ground, with a grant from the
Michigan Council for the Arts
and Cultural Affairs (MCACA)
giving them an important boost.
Operating out of historic Fort
Wayne, Mosaic currently is fund-
ed by both public and private
grants, minimal fees charged to
city and suburban schools and
theaters where the troupe ap-
pears and pledge-supported per-
form-a-thons, during which
company members present a se-
ries of short theater pieces to or-
ganizations around the city.
Mosaic's first original produc-
tion was I'm Fittin' In, which was
about peer pressure. The second
was What Fools These Mortals
Be!, an original adaptation of A
Midsummer Night's Dream.
"All the plays that we do are
collaborations between the adult
staff and young people, which is
a nice balance for us," Mr. Sper-
ling explained.
"If we put a play completely in
young people's hands, there re-
ally wouldn't be enough experi-
ence to see the whole thing
through. If we put a play totally
in adults' hands, then we would
end up with a production that
would be out of touch."
Mr. Sperling used his mother
as a theatrical role model. Doris
Sperling, a retired teacher, was
one of the founders of the Young
People's Theatre in Ann Arbor,
where her son studied and per-
formed as a teen-ager.
Later, at Oberlin College, Mr.
Sperling founded the Mosaic The-
atre Project, which was in line
with his theater and sociology
courses. Working with groups, he
helped create original works of
multi-cultural drama and music.
"There are a couple of things
that make our Detroit program
unique," said Mr. Sperling, one
of Mosaic's two full-time staff
members. "It draws from all
around the area instead of being
based around neighborhoods, and
it involves kids in every aspect of
production.
"Each time we ask the kids
what they like about Mosaic, they
talk about being with kids from
different parts of the Detroit area
and from different ethnic back-
grounds."
Mr. Sperling is pleased that
there was an element from his
Jewish background during the
December perform-a-thon. It dra-
matized folk tales for audiences
at the Detroit Historical Muse-
um, Wayne County Youth Home,
Central Towers Senior Citizens
Complex, Alternatives for Girls
and the Homeless Union.
The group decided to act out
The Rabbi and the Inquisitor, a
tale about a religious leader who
outsmarts an unfair judge.
Through Mosaic's connection
with the MCACA, the troupe's
work has come to the attention of
influential arts executives.
Jane Alexander, the award-
winning actress who chairs the
National Endowment for the
Arts, watched a performance and
wrote to Mr. Sperling that she
since has been lauding Mosaic in
speeches around the country.
A representative of the Latino
Chicago Theatre Company saw
a rehearsal and invited the en-
semble to perform in Illinois last
summer with a return visit this
summer.
In the works is a collaboration
with Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose
Theatre Company in Chelsea. It
is hoped arrangements can be
made to have the professional ac-
tors and technicians teach at Mo-
saic and later have the teen-agers
join apprenticeship programs at
the Purple Rose.
"We don't want people to come
to our shows with the idea that
they're just coming to support the
kids," Mr. Sperling said. "We
want to entertain them, and we
want to be considered a profes-
sional theater company that hap-
pens to educate and present
kids." ❑
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Author Visits
Borders
Marilyn Singer will read from her
latest book Family Reunion Dec.
11 at 2 p.m. at Borders Book
Shop, Southfield at 13 Mile. Ms.
Singer is the author of over 40
books for children and young
adults.
Eclectic Concert
In Birmingham
Modesty Forbids, the next per-
formance of the 1994-95 Night-
notes concert series, will be
hosted by Hagopian World of
Rugs and sponsored by the De-
troit Chamber Winds.
Modesty Forbids features Irish
and American folk tunes per-
formed by members of the Detroit
Chamber Winds at the Hagopi-
an World of Rugs showroom,
850 S. Woodward Ave., Bir-
mingham, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. There
is a charge.