Target Margin Theater Announces Line Up for 20th Anniversary Season

The past and present will converge as Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director) celebrates its 20th Anniversary Season with a "retrospective of new work." How can a retrospective consist of new works? Each production in their season will explore a different aspect of the universe TMT has built over the last two decades. Each production will offer a taste of the different worlds TMT inhabits: a play by Shakespeare, a new work created by the company, an opera, an early American play, and a classic of the twentieth century avant-gard. This 2010-2011 Anniversary Season will serve as a "brain scan" of the mind of Target Margin Theater, reexamining the style of theater that has driven its work for twenty years including Shakespeare, Wassily Kandinsky, Mozart, Clyde Fitch and a new work created by the company in collaboration with the Performing Arts Center at LaGuardia Community College.

In announcing the 2010-2011 Anniversary Season, Artistic Director David Herskovits had this to say, "In our twentieth year we offer a Brain Scan of the mind of Target Margin Theater. TMT is always imagining new theatrical experiences; now we step back to survey all the different kinds of creation we have on the brain. Each production explores a different aspect of the universe TMT has built. Consider this a crash course in what we have spent the last twenty years striving to accomplish."

The season's production schedule is as follows:

The Target Margin Laboratory
November 4-20, 2010
Presented by The Brick (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Veteran and neophyte Target Margin artists come together to study the pathological history of this downtown institution, investigating the varied interests that define the character of TMT. In rotating rep, the productions in the TMT LAB include the classic avant-garde ply The Yellow Sound by Wassily Kandinsky, an experimental theater piece originated by the Russian artist in 1909, The Magic Flute (A Sound-Op Era) adapted from the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the early American play, The Moth and The Flame by Clyde Fitch written at the turn of the 20th Century.

In association with The Brick, Brooklyn's destination for cutting-edge theatrical experience, and in celebration of TMT's 20th Anniversary, the annual Target Margin Lab will be a study of the company's nerve center, scanning the brain which created two decades of exciting diverse plays.

The New Year kicks off with English as a Second Language; every language is a Second Language.

Second Language
February/March 2011
at The Chocolate Factory (Long Island City)

Second Language negotiates the margins of communication. TMT's new project brings professional actors and designers together with students from LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC), in Long Island City, to create an original play about how we talk to each other, how we read each other, and how we fail to communicate. Second Language is in partnership with LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) and The Chocolate Factory.

The 20th Anniversary Season concludes with:

The Tempest
May 2011
at HERE (NYC)

Target Margin Theater's 20th Anniversary production brings them back to their Shakespearean roots with a rich and strange production performed by the company that will challenge perceived notions of performing Shakespeare.

Ticket information is available by visiting the Target Margin Theater website at www.targetmargin.org.

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