These Very Serious Jokes
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 8, 2004
Closed Jan 31, 2004
Opened Jan 8, 2004
Closed Jan 31, 2004
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Target Margin Theater, the Obie Award-winning company renowned for its innovative adaptations of a wide-range of classics, returns to the boards with its first new production in a year with These Very Serious Jokes, an adaptation of Part 1 of Goethe's classic masterpiece Faust by Douglas Langworthy.
David Greenspan as Mephisto and Will Badgett as Faustus head the cast. Target Margin's artistic director David Herskovits directs.
The week of Jan. 27th, THESE VERY SERIOUS JOKES will play Tuesday through Friday (Jan. 27, 28, 29, 30) at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
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If it were not for David Greenspan, These Very Serious Jokes would be painful to sit through. The actor, who plays the role of Mephistopheles here, has a vibrant theatrical presence and a quirky stage personality that makes nearly everything he does wonderfully alive. Unfortunately, even he cannot salvage Target Margin Theater's woefully misguided adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust.
David Herskovits, who usually manages to put an innovative and engaging spin on the plays he directs, seems content here to simply quote other experimental theater directors in a hodgepodge of stylistic influences that never coheres into a compelling artistic vision. The set and several bits of sta[...]