The Open Eye Theater of Margaretville, NY has announced their exciting 2024 season including spring, summer and fall events with schedule set to kick off in April 2024.
Established in 1972 in New York City, The Open Eye Theater was started by the renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell and dancer-choreographer Jean Erdman, who sadly passed away. Jean Erdman’s groundbreaking idea of “total theater,” which combined dance, drama, music, and myth, made her an internationally acclaimed artist in the modern theater movement.
Under Amie Brockway’s direction as producing creative director in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the theater became known for creating and presenting cutting-edge plays for audiences of all ages. The theater’s primary focus since moving to the Catskill Mountains and setting up shop in Margaretville, New York, has been on the creation and presentation of new plays, showcasing the works of up-and-coming, well-known writers. Annual Summer Shortcuts, a series of eight 10-minute plays by Catskills, national, and international playwrights, has proven popular among the producers.
The Open Eye Theater started working along with WIOX Radio 91.3 FM, WIOXradio.org, and MTC Channel 20 television in 2020 and their exciting new 2024 season set to start in April.
The 2024 season will kick off on April 21 at 3:00pm with The Tempest, by Catskill Mountain Shakespeare’s touring company. Once in the Time of Trolls, a radio play, by Sandra Fenichel Asher will follow on May 9-19. The play is based on Norwegian folk tales and adapted by the playwright to include sound effects.
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel will follow from July 18-28. This full-length play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 and is recommended to be best enjoyed by older teens and adults.
In August, the theatre will finish their summer with The One Hundred Acre Wood, which was conceived and directed by Amie Brockway from the stories of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne. The show will be held in August 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31.
Summer Shortcuts XIV, will be held from August 15-25. The right original ten-minute plays will be performed for general audience. Legends & Tales, stories with music for children, will be held in September and October matinee at 12 noon.
The Theatre will close its season in the fall with Enough! 2024, Plays Against Gun Violence set to play in November and It’s A Wonderful Life, the radio play by Joseph Landry based on the short story The Greatest Gift by Phillip Van Doren Stern in Mid-December with the date TBD. For more information fans can visit here
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