For the first time since the pandemic, the Target Margin Theater Lab returns with THE DEGENERATE LAB. Catch three productions in repertory from September 18 to October 5 in The Doxsee Theater, and three 1-night events. In each event a different artist creates their own reflection on Degenerate Art. An audience member who comes to everything will take an artistic journey greater than the sum of its parts. Labs are guided by Lead Artists who could be from any discipline.

Associate A.D. Adam M. Kassim creates FAGGOT/TERRORIST, a deeply personal fantasia colliding identity, time, sexuality, death, and a desperate plea for grace. Inspired by the work of queer artist David Wojnarowicz.

Director Malena Dayen interprets Valerie Solanas’ underground classic UP YOUR ASS as a new opera. This long-suppressed work is an unapologetically bold and sharply satirical work from one of radical feminism’s most provocative voices.

TMT Associate Artist Anthony Vaughn Merchant leads NEXT UP, a piece inspired by and featuring new voices lead by the counterculture of punk, exploring the question, “what does punk mean to me?” See you in the pit.

One-night artistic events enrich the program even more. On Monday, September 29, join us for a TMT Community Cafe for Degenerates, an evening for all those along the margins to gather in the Doxsee over light bites and a collective reading of The Bus Stop by Gao Xingjian. On Tuesday, September 30, attend Pull, a concert written especially for you. Rebecca Hart reads your Tarot as flutist Emily Duncan and singer and sound artist Britt Hewitt orchestrate your reading in real time. Catch Cabaret Verboten on Thursday, October 2, hosted by Viva Lamore. Enter an immersive art party with burlesque and varieté that celebrates queer beauty, Black history, and female autonomy — everything that the far right wants to erase.

Tickets start at $20: TargetMargin.org

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