Target Margin Theater Presents Target Margin LAB at The Brick 11/4

Target Margin Theater, in association with The Brick, Brooklyn's destination for cutting-edge theatrical experience, kicks off its 20th Anniversary Season with their annual Target Margin Laboratory at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn) where the company will remain in residence beginning November 4th through November 20th.

This year's TMT Lab will be a study of the company's nerve center, scanning the brain which created two decades of exciting diverse plays. What makes TMT tick? 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 Target Margin Theater.

In rotating rep, the productions in the TMT LAB include the classic avant-garde performance piece The Yellow Sound by Wassily Kandinsky, an experiment 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.

The three-week performance schedule at The Brick is:

The Yellow Sound
by Wassily Kandinsky,
Lead Artists-Kate Sinclair Foster & Mary Neufeld

A visual soundscape of giant puppets, psychedelic colors and indistinct beings.

Thursday, November 4 at 8:00p.m.
Friday, November 5 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 6 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m.
Monday, November 8 at 8:00 p.m.

THE MAGIC FLUTE (A Sound-Op Era)
adapted from the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lead artist-Kate Marvin

Kann Musik bezaubern? Could a flute be the key? Does the "flöte" put the "zauber" in TMT? (And what's going on with the Freemasonry?) A zauberoperatic journey through fire, water, and glitter starring theremins, opera singers, ukuleles, dictaphones, melodicas, maestros with big hair, speakers of Transrational German, wind-up dolls, toy pianos, Stage Managers in tights, Sound Demons in tuxedos, Freemasons in fake beards, and the sound of magic.

Wednesday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 11 at 8:00 p.m.

Friday, November 12 at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 13 at 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m.

THE MOTH AND THE FLAME
by Clyde Fitch
Lead Artist-Yuri Skujins

Written at the turn of the 20th century, this relentlessly chatty and darkly comedic play looks at the strivings--financial, social, and otherwise--of that era's plucky New Yorkers and their curiously modern concerns and timely dilemmas.

Tuesday, November 16 at 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 17 at 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 18 at 8:00 p.m.

Friday, November 19 at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 20 at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets are priced at $12 until October 31 ($15 from November 1) and are available at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111. Additional information is available by visiting the Target Margin Theater website at www.targetmargin.org, or The Brick website at www.bricktheater.com.

Target Margin Theater for twenty years has been at the forefront of New York's alternative theater scene and has been praised for its bold and sometimes wild interpretations of classic dramas and lesser-known works. Target Margin Theater has presented ambitious re-thinkings of plays by Shakespeare, Chekov, Brecht, Gertrude Stein, and Beaumarchais, among others. The company's production of Mamba's Daughters received the Obie Award and was a sensation of the 1999 Spoleto Festival, and its recent epic production of Goethe's Faust received critical acclaim.

The Brick is Williamsburg, Brooklyn's destination for cutting-edge theatrical experience. Winner of THE 2009 CAFFE CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD, it served as home to the critically acclaimed premieres of Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (2010 NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Bouffon Glass Menajoree (2007 NY IT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Performance Art Production), Greed: A Musical Love $tory (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Musical), and Suspicious Package (NY IT Award Nominee-Outstanding Play). The company has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, including Annie Baker, Young Jean Lee, The Debate Society, Banana Bag & Bodice, Thomas Bradshaw, and Jollyship the Whiz-Bang's Nick Jones. The Brick has also hosted Fight Fest, Game Play: A Celebration of Video Game Theater, four years of the international NY Clown Theatre Festival, Gemini CollisionWorks' August repertory festival (The Collisionworks), the Summer Theme Festivals and 2011's upcoming Iranian Theater Festival.

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