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JET stages world premiere
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SUZANNE CHESSLER •
Special to the Jewish News
IC
itty Dubin's comedic plays
have been performed by
the Jewish Ensemble
Theatre, but she is about
to introduce a more dramatic experi-
ence to JET audiences with the pre-
miere production of Dance Like No
One's Watching.
The play,
which runs May
8-June 9 in the
Aaron DeRoy
Theatre at the
West Bloomfield
Jewish
Community
Center, zeroes in
on a troubled
couple seeking
the help of a
marriage coun-
Right: John Seibert
selor. The work
portrays Dubin's
was presented in
alter ego, a marital
its early stages at
therapist, in
JET's Festival of
"Dance Like No
New Plays.
One Watching."
"This is a
three-performer piece exploring the
complexity of modern marriage,"
explains Dubin of Birmingham, who
was a family therapist for 25 years
while also devoting time to writing.
"In the two acts, when the wife talks
about other men in her life, the thera-
pist morphs into those characters.
"This couple is not based on any
couple I've known, but they embody
things common to every couple I've
counseled. Nobody makes jokes in
this play, but there is humor arising
out of the characters."
Dubin, who teaches theater at
Oakland University, has been collabo-
rating closely with director Geoffrey
Sherman and actors John Seibert,
playing therapist Dr. Lawrence Fried,
and Robin Lewis-Bedz and Thomas
Hoagland, as young marrieds Scott
and Michelle Copeland.
Although the characters are Jewish,
that aspect of their personas is not
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developed in the drama, Dubin says.
The playwright, a Dramatist Guild
winner, recently watched another of
her scripts, Mimi and Me, produced at
the American Playwrights Theatre in
New York City. Part of a celebration of
Women's History Month this year, the
piece had been introduced at JET.
Another Dubin play, Skin Deep,
about a beautiful woman and an
unscrupulous plastic surgeon, was
staged last season
Left: Playwright
by Michigan's
Kitty Dubin:
Heartlande
Exploring the
Theatre
complexities of
Company. Her
modern marriage.
Ties That Bind
has been per-
formed at Jeff
Daniels' Purple
Rose Theatre in
Chelsea.
Other Dubin
works produced
at JET include
The Last Resort,
Change of Lift
and The Day We
Met.
"I think there
are two periods of time when mar-
riages are most vulnerable — when
children arrive and when they leave
home," says Dubin, whose new play
explores the first circumstance.
"In Dance Like No One's Watching,
the couple is coping pretty badly, and
they have to adjust." ❑
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