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Target Margin Theater: DRUNKEN WITH WHAT: A study of Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
Playhouse Theater
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 8:00PM

Abrons Arts Center, Playhouse Theater
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
F/M to Delancey/Essex; B/D to Grand St.; M14A to Pitt St.


Target Margin Theater launches a two-season exploration of Eugene O’Neill. Who was he? Genius, blowhard, giant of the imagination, ham-fisted avatar of pseudo-psychology, geographer of the human spirit, was he drunk on art or just drunk? Seating ONLY the balcony in the Abrons’ Historic Playhouse, DRUNKEN WITH WHAT: A study of Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill is an intimate, unpredictable, and intoxicating journey through the mind, heart, and gullet of the great father of American theater. Target Margin Theater was founded in 1991 by David Herskovits on the principle that works of art return us to real truths more powerfully by their divergence from a strict illustration of reality. Through classic and contemporary texts, we seek continuously to expand our conception of what can take place in a theater. Now in our 23rd season, we have created aggressively re-imagined versions of classics and new creations inspired by existing sources. Difference is the generative principle of everything we do. When we program we gravitate toward plays or other literary material that is different from us; either it is from another cultural or historical context, or it is strange in language or content, or it is formally adventurous and challenges our received ideas about what a play is. This often means aggressively poetic writing like Gertrude Stein and Shakespeare; or music-theater or opera; or adaptations of non-dramatic sources. We hope that everything we do creates a different answer to the question, ‘what is a play?’