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2008-2009 Season
Target Margin Theater Presents The 2009 Laboratory!
Click here to check out The L Magazine's interview with Artistic Director David Herskovits!
Long before Camino Real American theater artists were pushing the boundaries of their form. In our 2009 Lab, Target Margin Theater looks at some of the enormous range of work that sprang up in the early twentieth century. With the little theater movement, the WPA theater project, living newspapers, rising feminist consciousness, and the spread of European avant-garde movements in art, waves of American writers, actors, designers, directors, and musicians dreamed of a new theater: the theater of tomorrow we have inherited from them today. The Chocolate Factory 5-49 49th Avenue Long Island City, Queens $15 for A FAMILY OF PERHAPS THREE $10 for all other Lab shows See below for FREE Special Events!
A FAMILY OF PERHAPS THREE by Gertrude Stein directed by David Herskovits There may have been three of them. There may have been a play. There was then a play. The founding mother of us all teases out a memory and a story that is no story. We are all in this family of perhaps three.
Selections from COLD KEENER by Zora Neale Hurston directed by Donya K. Washington Cold Keener: 1. a random assortment of things 2. a streetwise person 3. a collection of plays by Zora Neale Hurston celebrating storytelling
(oh my god I am so)THIRST(y) (mostly) by Eugene O’Neill directed by Michael Levinton Three desperate souls adrift at sea await the cruel, cruel fate bestowed on them by an angry God. A comedy which may or may not have absolutely nothing to do with race.
ARIA DA CAPO by Edna St. Vincent Millay Ásta Bennie Hostetter and Julia Jarcho revisit this modernist/pastoral mashup to snack on high style, violence, and macaroons. Performing with TOM.
TOM by E.E. Cummings directed by Kathleen Kennedy Tobin Cummings’ never-performed scenario for a ballet based on Uncle Tom’s Cabin, staged for puppets and paper cutouts. Performing with ARIA DA CAPO.
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT by Zora Neale Hurston A collaboration between TMT and the Bronx Prep Charter School, teaching artist Andrew Simon and his students from the South Bronx have cast themselves in Hurston’s short play set in a one room schoolhouse, culminating in a raucous, exuberant finale.
*** STEIN/WILDER NIGHT (3 plays, 2 writers, 1 ticket!):
BONNIES OVER THE WATER conceived and directed by Natalie Robin and the company. He was writing OUR TOWN. She was giving lecture tours around the world. But they had a lot of time to talk about their kitchens. Inspired by letters between Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder, two dilettantes tap dance their way into the closest of friendships.
PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA by Thornton Wilder directed by John Kurzynowski In Wilder’s 28-character one act, a train car and it’s passengers chart the pulses of American life as they collide physically, metaphysically, geographically, meteorologically, astronomically and theologically. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York City.
TELEPHONE/LANDSCAPE (after Gertrude Stein) directed by Will Fulton It’s about time Gertrude Stein put her money where her mouth is. Starting with the seed of Stein’s “For the Country Entirely,” designers will play a game of theatrical telephone until it all comes together into one cacophonous landscape of creative voices in dialogue.
*** ONE NIGHT ONLY! Reading of THE VERGE by Susan Glaspell directed by Alice Reagan Tom, Dick & Harry vie for Claire’s affections in a botanical laboratory while she tries to keep her new plant, the “Breath of Life” alive. Glaspell, co-founder of the Provincetown Players, gives us an experiment in feminism by way of horticulture, estranged daughters, and madness! 5/18 @ 7pm, FREE
“BLUE PIANO” Jazz and the Theater of Tomorrow A talk-and-play. 5/23 @4pm
ARTISTS’ LIVING ROOM curated by Shawn-Marie Garrett & John Del Gaudio Harkening back to the days of the little theater movement, TMT will come together for a day of experimentation and creation, culminating in a showing for TMT enthusiasts. 5/24 @5pm. FREE
DREAMING IN THEATER Drama and Other Disciplines Artists and Scholars discuss interdisciplinarity in experimental American theater, 1900-1946. 5/25 @7pm, FREE
Reading of LIBERTY DEFERRED A Living Newspaper from The Federal Theater Project
by Abram Hill & John Silvera presented by William Burke & Jose Zayas In this incendiary play, two couples, one white, one black, reflect on the history of black people in America. Featuring Jim Crow, blackface, North/South sectionalism and the magical land of Lynchotopia. 5/31 @ 7pm
Theater of Tomorrow Installation by Carolyn Mraz
A special video project by Chocolate Factory Artistic Director Brian Rogers will be paired with programming throughout the festival.
************************************************************ EARLIER THIS SEASON
Never before seen in New York!!!
A dreamlike meditation on alienation, beauty and death. Target Margin Theater is proud to present Williams' elegant compact first version of what became his much-celebrated play. In 1948 Elia Kazan first workshopped these scenes at the Actors Studio, and that work grew into the legendary Camino Real.
NOW CLOSED - January 14 - 31.
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The Reviews are in!
"David Herskovits has mounted a
lively and energetic staging at The
Ohio Theater....Satya Bhabha gives a
fine performance as Kilroy, by turns
angry and frightened as a young
American prizefighter lost in an
unknown land and a heartbeat from
death." (The New York Times)
(The Guardian- UK)
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by Tennessee Williams directed by David Herskovits
with Purva Bedi Satya Bhabha Curt Hostetter McKenna Kerrigan Dara Seitzman Raphael Nash Thompson
SCENIC & LIGHTING DESIGNER Lenore Doxsee COSTUME DESIGNER Ásta Bennie Hostetter MUSICAL DIRECTOR David Rosenmeyer BIG SOUND GUY Jim "Sneaky" Breitmeier PRODUCTION MANAGER Kat West STAGE MANAGER Jacqueline Prats ASSISTANT DIRECTOR John Kurzynowski SOUND DEMON Will Fulton PROPS & ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGNER Peiyi Wong ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Avery Lewis ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Lily Perlmutter PUBLICITY O + M Co.
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. on behalf of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Target Margin Theater's Artistic Director David Herskovits and our production of TEN BLOCKS ON THE CAMINO REAL were rfeatured in The New York Times (CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ARTICLE). * * * * *
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