DETROIT, Jan. 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The Marygrove College Theatre will host the UDM Theatre Company production of "Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials," February 2-18. Written by Arthur Beer and produced and directed by David Regal, the play is based on the 1925-26 trials of Dr. Ossian Sweet and his brother who were charged with murder after shots were fired into a crowd menacing the home of Dr. Sweet. One man was killed and another injured. The Sweets were the first black family to move into a previously all-white neighborhood.
Famed attorney Clarence Darrow defended the Sweets thanks to funds raised by the NAACP and other civil rights organizations. Frank Murphy, who a decade later became Michigan's governor, was the trial judge. The case remains a landmark in the civil rights movement.
Marygrove College alumni and friends can attend a special Dinner Theater on Saturday, February 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Madame Cadillac Building. A special feature will be a presentation by former Macomb County Prosecutor Carl Marlinga on civil rights and the courts. The show will begin at 8 p.m. in the Theatre, which is located on campus in the Liberal Arts Building. Dinner theater tickets are $25.
For dinner theater reservations, send a check payable to Marygrove College for $25 per person by February 9 to Alumni Relations, 8425 W. McNichols, Detroit, MI 48221-2599. To pay by credit card or inquire, call Diane Puhl at (313) 927-1443.
"Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials" runs Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. Price for general admission is $20; senior citizen discount is $16; University of Detroit Mercy/Marygrove Students $5; and all others with student identification $9.
Marygrove is an independent liberal arts college in Detroit since 1927. Some 1,200 students attend on-campus classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, forensic science, science, math, criminal justice, music and dance, and the fine arts. The College also offers online graduate degrees in education.
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