Help fund the original score for TMT's The Tempest. Your support will be music to our ears!

Cue the viola de gamba dear friends of Target Margin, we're gonna make some music.

Our 20th Anniversary production of The Tempest is gonna knock your socks off! We've got the hand painted scenery, the old-fashioned costumes, the painterly tableaux--now we just need to set the right tone with a delectable soundscape to conjure the magic for the tempest at hand. 

The Tempest is teeming with incidental music, more than any other play by Shakespeare, and we want to commit to that fact with myriad compositions and music treatments. The score of The Tempest will feature the incidental music survived from the period--songs such as "Where the Bee Sucks" and "Full Fathom Five"-- as well as new compositions, the use of Renaissance instruments (the viola de gamba!), a man/musicbox/computer collaboration for an experimental twist and a chorus of angels. Ok, maybe not the angels. But the rest is true and so close we can hear it.

We appeal to you, our community, to assist us in the realization of our dream score. (We tried to get Ariel to busk in the subway but her schedule is ethereal and really hard to manage.) Won't you help? 5 bucks would mean the world and truly honor Target Margin's 20 years of eclectic noisemaking. In addition to the myriad perks detailed here you will all be listed as "Full Fathom Funders" in our program and acknowledged for your support of the score for The Tempest.

The Tempest both connects to our earliest roots, and pushes our work in new directions: Target Margin Theater first built a reputation with muscular innovative productions of Shakespeare, including our first production Titus Andronicus in 1991, and yet we always strive to challenge and renew our own work. The Tempest is the centerpiece of our 20th Anniversary Season and runs from May 4-27, 2011 at HERE Arts Center. For more info on the production, please click here.