Target Margin Launches 2008/09 Season with 'Ten Blocks on the Camino Real'

Target Margin Theater, Off Broadway's Obie Award-winning theater company, will explore the world of classic American playwrights and authors in its upcoming 2009 season.

Launching the season, the company will offer an extremely rare view of the theatrical process of playwright Tennessee Williams with the first-ever never before seen in New York production of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real.  In 1948, Elia Kazan first workshopped these scenes at the Actors Studio, and that work grew into the legendary Camino Real.  Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. on behalf of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Performances begin January 14, 2009 for a limited engagement through January 31, 2009 at The Ohio Theater (66 Wooster Street).  Opening night is set for January 18, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Target Margin Theater is proud to present Williams' elegant compact first version of what became his much-celebrated play, Camino Real.  This ‘first draft' of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real will be presented as Williams wrote and published it.

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is part of a broader two season project that was sparked by the company's parallel process of developing a new play, The Really Big Once, based on the Elia Kazan/ Tennessee Williams collaboration in the period 1948-53.  The new piece will be based on correspondence, notebooks, memoirs and other documentary material between these two creative giants. Plans are in the works to bring this new work to the stage in the 2009/10 season.

Target Margin's Artistic Director Herskovits commented, "We are honored to have been granted the rights to produce this work for the first time ever.  This one-act, which evolved into the legendary full-length play, has its own beauty.  Ten Blocks is poetic, mysterious and neglected.  And its dreamlike quality suits Target Margin's style perfectly."

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real will play the following performance schedule:  Wednesdays - Fridays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 7:00 p.m.  Ticket information is available by visiting the Target Margin Theater website at www.targetmargin.org.

Additional season details will be announced shortly.

Target Margin Theater for more than 15 years has been at the forefront of New York's alternative theater scene and has been praised for its bold and sometimes wild interpretations of classic dramas and lesser-known works.  Target Margin Theater has presented ambitious re-thinkings of plays by Shakespeare, Chekov, Brecht, Gertrude Stein, and Beaumarchais, among others. The company's production of Mamba's Daughters received the Obie Award and was a sensation of the 1999 Spoleto Festival, and its recent epic production of Goethe's Faust received critical acclaim.

 

 

 

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