The Angel That Troubled The Waters

For the first show of our 2025-2026 season, Prophecy and Apocalypse, The Eno River Players are proud to present a workshop production of The Angel that Troubled the Waters, a collection of experimental religious plays by Thornton Wilder. Published in 1928, these plays, individually about five to ten minutes long, offer a rare window into Wilder’s bold early experiments in theatrical form.

Each play opens a door –– open only for an instant–– into a divine world. Among the figures who appear are Satan, A Tall Thin Dreamy Man, The Mistaken Invalid, and the great Leviathan. As Wilder himself explained, he hoped that these plays might “discover the spirit that is not unequal to the elevation of the great religious themes, yet which does not fall into a repellent didacticism.”

A cast of ten will perform nine plays, with a spirit of play and wonder which defines our work. The whole event runs 60-70 minutes, with no intermission.

Please also join us after the matinee on Sunday at 4:15 PM for the free Eno River Players Carnival to celebrate the company, enjoy an autumnal drink, and be together.

Where: Target Margin Theater, 232 52nd Street. Brooklyn, NY 11220

How to get there:

SUBWAY Target Margin Theater is two blocks from the R train at 53rd Street. From Manhattan, take the express N or D train to 36th Street (two stops on the N from Canal Street; three stops on the D from Grand Street). Transfer to the local R at 36th Street and ride two stops to 53rd Street.

FERRY The Rockaway Ferry from Pier 11 (Wall Street) stops at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. Target Margin is a 10-minute walk from there—an easy way to reach the theater from downtown.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Target Margin Theater, 232 52nd Street, Brooklyn, United States