This is Real at Target Margin Theater

Target Margin Theater presents This is Real, a new play inspired by the work of Jean Genet. Created by 2025 Obie Award winning director David Herskovits and a cohort of artists, This is Real brings the transgressive spirit of Jean Genet to life for America in 2026, featuring Genet’s obsessions: power, sex, and revolution. Genet inspires us to confront power without fear, upend convention without judgment, and challenge audiences to question their own lives. Above all, Genet was committed to representing the outsiders of our world, the counterculture, misfits, losers, and criminals. This is Real asks our audience to consider these degenerates anew. What is the beauty and wisdom of the outsider? Aren’t we, all of us, outsiders in our own ways?

This is Real runs March 1 through April 5 at the Target Margin Theater in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Tickets start at $30: TargetMargin.org/ThisIsReal