Target Margin Theater Plans Two-Season Exploration of Eugene O'Neill

Target Margin Theater is proud to announce their two-season exploration of the great father of American theater, Eugene O'Neill. Who was O'Neill? 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? He rewrote Greek tragedy, refurbished American melodrama, and reinvented depth psychology for the stage, and TMT brings it all to you.

In the 2015/ 2016 season, TMT launches their Eugene O'Neill program with a special treatment of O'Neill's epic Mourning Becomes Electra. Drunken With What, presented at the Abrons Arts Center's historic Playhouse in February 2016, is the first in a series of studies of key scenes in the Mourning Becomes Electra trilogy and will offer audiences a deep reflection on the seminal work. Previews will begin on February 7th, 2016 with an opening night set for February 15th, 2016. Tickets will be $30.

Up next, the 2016 TMT Lab at HERE Arts Center will feature a radical new approach to O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. Four diverse theater artists will each tackle a separate act of O'Neill's classic and present them in repertory, allowing audiences to experience each act as its own distinct work or to see them all as a cohesive whole in a marathon performance. Lead Artists currently scheduled to participate include Julia Sirna-Frest (actor / director), Katie Rose McLaughlin (choreographer), Yuris Skujins (actor /director), and Jeanette Yew (lighting / projection designer, director, puppeteer). The Iceman Cometh will start performances on June 2nd. Tickets for each act will be $18; Tickets for marathon performances of all four acts will be $55.

Photo Credit: O'Neill in Provincetown. Image courtesy Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, Connecticut College.

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