Target Margin Theater presents THE ICEMAN LAB

5/4/2016 2:49pm


Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director; Sarah Hughes/Moe Yousuf, Co-Artistic Producers) presents The ICEMAN Lab, a radical new reimaging of The Iceman Cometh, with four diverse theater artists each tackling a separate act of the play running in rep starting June 2 (to 6/25). This fresh take on O’Neill’s classic will give audiences the opportunity to see each act as a separate experiment or all together in a single sitting. The four acts of The ICEMAN Lab will play a varied schedule at the HERE Arts Center (145 6th Avenue) from June 2 through June 25, with special marathon performances on June 11 and June 18. The Lab program will also include a special workshop showing of Strange Interlude by David Greenspan (in partnership with Transport Group) on June 21; a staged reading of Beyond the Horizon by Ann Marie Dorr on June 14; and an afternoon pub crawl on June 25 with O’Neill biographer Robert M. Dowling. The lineup begins with ICEMAN ACT I by Julia Sirna-Frest. Shane Chapman and Julia Sirna-Frest present a song cycle that meanders through disCHORDant changes and sings to the sweet oblivion that is life as a listless drunken human featuring Sarah Bennett, Shane Chapman, Lisa Clair, Chris Giarmo and Julia Sirna-Frest. Next up will be ICEMAN ACT II by Yuris Skujins.  Bleak beautiful horrible visions haunt this downbeat birthday celebration. Fraught wicked partygoers mull and defend and deny their weak standing under their even weaker circumstances. Featuring collaborations with Douglas Langworthy and Meredith PalinICEMAN ACT III is by Katie Rose McLaughlin. Exits and entrances. Characters turned inside out. Internal psychodrama repurposed into constant physical movement. Six female dancers play O’Neill’s fourteen barflies in a highly choreographed study of existential dread, rising to the occasion and falling back down again. Featuring Belinda Adams, Ronnell Kitt, Emily Pacilio, Victoria Roberts-Wierzbowski, Mary Kate Sickel, and Taquirah Thompson. Last up is ICEMAN ACT IV by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew. An audio and live-action puppetry animation journey into the sobering minds of the wax figures who were once proud and ambivalent drunks at Harry Hope’s bar. Tomorrow is now. The poetry of the language will be the lens through which the tragedy and redemption unfolds and becomes universal. Featuring Tomas Del Valle, Amy Jensen, Connie Hall, Valarie Pham, and Merlin Whitehawk. For the schedule of performances and tickets, please visit www.targetmargin.org or www.here.org. Press contact: DKC/O&M (212/695-7400)...