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Volume XVII, Issue I October 2007
Announcing the 2007 - 2008 Season!
Volume XVI, Issue II May 2007
Thank you! Our Hellenic Gala
Celebration, How to Be a Greek Hero
in honor of John Catsimatidis, was a
tremendous success thanks to your
generosity!
Volume XVI, Issue I September 2006
Fellow Marginites, A letter from Artistic Director David Herskovits
I write to you from a wonderful spot. Last season many things worked out beautifully for Target Margin Theater, and we are all reaping the benefits of that success. Faust was great, not to be too modest about it. Artistically Faust was the perfect affirmation of what we do: TMT is about creating the most sophisticated challenging material and making it playful too. The show got once-in-a-lifetime reviews; our collaboration with Classic Stage Company brought new audience and increased exposure; TMT’s work had a bigger impact than ever. Your very own adventure-addicted experimental theater company has slowly but surely grown to a new level of institutional size and stability.
The fact is, we are actually helping to change our culture, to enrich and enlarge the imaginative life of our community. TMT’s plays have had a vibrant life in our own local circle, and we are continuing to expand that sphere of influence. Yes I said influence, as in influenza; Target Margin Theater’s productions are like a good bug that spreads through the community, a virus that replicates itself in each host, or a meme that enters the language and reshapes it. That’s the way the arts work. They change people just a little bit, one soul at a time, and ever so slowly that’s how the world we live in changes.
Now, if you are one of those people who has noticed that “the world we live in” is in pretty rough shape right about now, we agree. And we wanted to put together a season of work that engaged more directly with the state of the world. Target Margin’s work has never been political in the narrow and stated way that so many thin issue-oriented preaching-to-the-converted productions are. But Target Margin’s work has always been political in the way we think art should be: sensitive and responsive to its local context so as to maximize its impact on the thinking and sensibility of our audience. TMT’s plays are political not because they take stances on issues, but because they embody a world view. So what body of theatrical work expresses energetic civic-mindedness? What literature speaks with fire to a community of citizens about their role as citizens? What culture debated with itself ferociously about how to build a successful polity?
The Greeks! This season we offer you a selection of the rich and strange treasure that is classical Greek literature. This work is much more than its political side, and we aim to stretch our artistic limits as we always do. No other body of literature so completely marries burning personal passion and civic politics: in classical Athenian literature personal and civic passion feed each other. In Greek tragedy the mythic and the local are one and the same. Naturally, we have set a very ambitious program. We’ll do a tragedy, a philosophical dialogue adapted for the stage, and premiere a new play reflecting on the Greek tradition. Euripides, Plato, and David Greenspan are our authors, and each of these productions will provoke urgent questions about how we conduct ourselves as citizens and as a nation at war, about how we love and what we think love is, about how we teach and listen to each other.
Please read on, mark your calendar, and join us.
EXTRA! Target Margin is very pleased to announce that Alice Reagan has received an award from the Princess Grace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the cultivation of a new generation of theater artists. Alice will be joining the company full-time this season, where she will be mentored by Artistic Director David Herskovits, and direct a production of a Greek Tragedy in January as part of our Lab series.
TMT in the Times A couple of months back, we received a nice write up in the New York Times Weekend Arts section as part of an article by Margo Jefferson entitled "The Avant-Garde, Rarely Love at First Sight." The piece discusses the nature of experimental theater, and how, unlike conventional commercial theater, the genre is generally unfamiliar to many, and often an acquired taste that requires repeat viewings to fully appreciate. You can view the article here, or if you're looking for your quick TMT fix, you can check out our blurb here in PDF format. Our website has some exciting new updates. Feel free to look around, or click the following links for quick access to some of the updates: Production Photo Slideshow (photos from every TMT show from the past 15 years) TMT brochure art (see a whole bunch of season and show mailers from our past productions)
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