Target Margin Theatre Kicks-Off Greek-Themed Season Tonight

Target Margin Theater, following its critically lauded season on the Greeks, has announced it will continue the theme into the 2007-2008 season with On The Greeks: Aristophanika, The Complete Works of a Comic Master.  Based on the plays of Aristophanes,  On The Greeks: Aristophanika deepens TMT's exploration into the rich and strange treasure of ancient Greek literature, moving from tragedy and philosophy, to the world of Old Comedy. Aristophanes' plays are bawdy, laugh-out-loud farces and, at the same time, serious meditations on the state of our community and our world.

The 2007-2008 season opens with The Aristophanic Laboratory that begins October 31 for a limited engagement through November 18, 2007 at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Avenue, between Spring & Broome Streets, enter on Dominick).  Target Margin Theater resurrects its wildly popular laboratory series with a three-week festival of the entire Aristophanic canon, created by TMT's ever-growing community of artistic collaborators.

The repertory of newly created and adapted works include Knights, a new adaptation by Rob Handel, with direction by Alice Reagan. A play that skewers the gullible and gluttonous body politic.  Performs: Wed October 31 at ± Thursday November 1 at 7PM; Friday November 2 at 7PM and Saturday November 3 at 4PM.

Wasps Or, Buzz Buzz In Your Eardrum, written by Ken Urban with direction by Jose Zayas is an irreverent riff on The Wasps. Performs: Saturday November 3 at 7PM; Sunday November 4 at 2PM & 7PM; and Monday November 5 at 7PM.

Are You A Bird Or A Dodo? Or, Aristophanes' Birds, is directed by Jessica Brater.  Not exactly what the Audobon Society had in mind. Performs: Wednesday November 7 at 7PM; Thursday November 8 at 7PM; Friday November 9 at 11PM; and Saturday November 10 at 7PM.

Balabustas! a queer yiddishkeit thesmophoriazusae by Michael Levinton.  Faygeles (!) Phalli (!) and Pumps (!) – the whole meshugeneh megillah! Performs:  Friday November 9 at 7PM; Saturday November 10 at 4PM & 11PM; Sunday November 11 at 7PM.

The Name Means Public Spirited or, All Those Other Things by Mallery Avidon with direction by Jake Hooker.  This (very) loose adaptation of Ecclesiazusae is a comedy about politics, sex & food. Performs:  Tuesday November 13 at 7PM; Wednesday November 14 at 7PM; Friday November 16 at 7PM and Saturday November 17 at 7PM.

DUO: A double-header event:  Fuck! War! Or Come Victory Come! after Lysistrata, by F. Wolf Molitch with direction by Sherrine Azab.  A trim musical head-dive created by Rachel Chavkin and Taylor Mac.  Performs: Wednesday November 15 at 7PM; Saturday November 17 at 4PM & 7PM.

The Aristophanic Laboratory kicks off with MEZE: short riffs on The Archarnians, Plutus, Clouds, and fragments of the lost plays. Created by William Burke, Diana M. Konopka, Kristin Marting,  and Kathleen Kennedy Tobin and. Performs:  Friday November 2 at 11PM and Saturday November 3 at 11PM.

Tickets for The Aristophanic Laboratory are priced at $10 and can be purchased by visiting the HERE website at ww.here.org or by calling 212-352-3101.  Additional information at the Target Margin Theater website at www.targetmargin.org

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