Four Saints in Three Acts at Target Margin Theatre

Dates: (9/15/2022 - 10/9/2022 )

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Target Margin Theatre

Lucille Lortel Theatre

232 52nd Street
Brookllyn,NY 11220

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Tickets: 15-35

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The Lucille Lortel Theatre presents a solo play presentation of Four Saints in Three Acts, starring renowned actor David Greenspan (The Patsy, Strange Interlude) interpreting 66 unique roles. Four Saints in Three Acts is a culmination of Greenspans more than decade long journey into creating a tour de force trilogy of solo interpretations of plays from the 1920s. These previous works included various genres such as The Patsy, a playful comedy by Barry Connors and Eugene O'Neills experimental 6-hour dramatic play, Strange Interlude. In Four Saints in Three Acts, Greenspan concludes this ambitious series with his interpretation of a radical libretto by famed modernist writer and art collector Gertrude Stein. Originally set to music by Virgil Thomson, Greenspan will perform the script only, allowing a lyrical interpretation to set the tone for an evening where sound and words delight the senses. Four Saints in Three Acts is noted for its non-linear structure that speaks to the internal and external lives of artists embodied by the plays saints. In this work, the saints occupy and inhabit every word and syllable, toying with the playfulness of language and creating unconventional expressions and depictions of the human experience. With no discernable plot, the work exemplifies Steins love of emotion and time rather than story and action and allows audiences to enjoy a lyrical journey that doesnt end at a finite destination. Through Greenspans perfectly honed delivery employing rhythm, cadence, wordplay, and rhymes, coupled with raw physical motion, audiences will bathe in a range of emotional moments through the sheer enjoyment and pleasures of language, sound, and performance. If you enjoy it, you understand it. Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three ActsFour Saints in Three Acts is an opportunity to release yourself from the boundaries of traditional theater through David Greenspan grappling with the singular theatrical imagination of Gertrude Stein. By turns hilarious, absurd, and introspective, this work takes you on an unexpected ride via language and through human experience, said Ken Rus Schmoll, Director.I am convinced that the script itself for Four Saints in Three Acts has theatrical merit and that performing it without the music will bring out its unheard nuances and subtleties - both dramatic and comedic, said David Greenspan.The production of Four Saints in Three Acts is made possible with support from Target Margin Theater.

Authors

Gertrude Stein
Virgil Thomson

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