One Night
Off Bway, Target Margin at The Doxsee
Reviewed by Taylor Black
BOTTOM LINE: A deeply hospitable invitation to meditate on oral storytelling, diaspora, and the ways we build communities around narrative, through the framework of The One Thousand and One Nights.
Walking into the Doxsee Theater, Target Margin’s Sunset Park warehouse-conversion performance space, I was a little apprehensive—was I actually going to sit through nine straight hours of theater? Like many, my attention span has been whittled down to nearly nothing. I can hardly watch a full-length movie without checking my phone...
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