When We Were Young and Unafraid: a Michigan premiere at Detroit Repertory Theatre

In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade and before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few places where victims of domestic violence can find refuge. But her latest runaway, Mary Anne, is starting to influence Agnes's college-bound daughter, Penny. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside, Agnes has to confront her own assumptions about the women she's spent her life trying to help.

Detroit Repertory Theatre presents Sarah Treem's play as a Michigan premiere at 13103 Woodrow Wilson Street in Detroit. The New York Times praised Treem's "smart and exciting premise," which throws women of different backgrounds, and different ideas of what it means to be a woman at a pivotal moment, into close quarters and conflict.