Target Margin Theater's
THE REALLY BIG ONCE

April 13--May 8

photo by Yi Zhao

"The closest I ever came to the avant-garde was Camino Real, and I never got it right."
--Elia Kazan

In 1948 Elia Kazan started work on a strange new play by Tennessee Williams, and in 1953 Camino Real opened and quickly closed on Broadway. How did they create this astonishing work? How did Kazan’s 1952 testimony before the HUAC and its traumatic aftermath affect the creative process? Was Camino indeed a flop, or was it actually – in a deeper more permanent sense – an important success? How does anyone create something truly new? How do they fit in to the mainstream and how do they change it?

Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater’s new company-created piece The Really Big Once is the story of these two giants and how they changed American culture.

Target Margin Theater is founded on the principle that works of art return us to real truths more powerfully by their divergence from a strict illustration of reality. Through classic as well as contemporary texts, we seek continuously to expand our conception of what can take place in a theater. Beginning with Titus Andronicus in 1991, TMT has explored the works of Gertrude Stein, Christopher Marlowe and Marguerite Duras, among others. Recent seasons have been dedicated to Tennessee Williams and early American innovators, the Greeks and Faust. For more info on Target Margin, please click here.

Direction: David Herskovits
Lighting: Lenore Doxsee
Set: Laura Jellinek
Costumes: Carol Bailey
Big Sound Guy: Jim "Sneaky" Breitmeier
Sound Demon: Kate Marvin

Featuring Maria-Christina Oliveras, McKenna Kerrigan, John Kurzynowski, Hubert Point-Du Jour and Steven Rattazzi

Special benefit performance Thursday, April 22.
Buy tickets here or by calling the Target Margin offices at (718) 398-3095.

April 13--May 8

The Really Big Once plays the following performance schedule: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 7:00 p.m. Please note: there is a special early performance on Tuesday, April 27th at 7: 00p.m.; an added performance on Wednesday, April 28th at 8:00 p.m.; and no performance on Friday, April 30th.

Tickets: $25 general; $15 for students showing ID at the door (cash only)
Purchase in advance here or by calling 212-352-3101. Cash only at the door.