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En Garde Arts, Inc., was a New York-based theater company that specialized in "site specific" productions, staging both classics and new works in specially designated, nontraditional architectural or outdoor spaces. Founded in 1985 by former performance artist Anne Hamburger, En Garde Arts distinguished itself by setting plays in unusual public spaces such as warehouses, factories, street corners, piers, and parks. The 1989 production AT THE CHELSEA consisted of three one-act plays set at the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd Street, each staged in a different room at the hotel itself. In 1990 the troupe presented Mac Wellman's CROWBAR in the dilapidated Victory Theatre on 42nd Street, the first play produced there in over fifty years. In 1993 En Garde Arts staged Charles L. Mee's adaptation of Euripides' ORESTES at an abandoned railroad switching station at 59th Street and 12th Avenue. In 1995 the company staged Jonathan Larson's J.P. MORGAN SAVES THE NATION at the intersection of Wall Broad streets in the heart of Lower Manhattan's financial district. En Garde Arts disbanded at the conclusion of the 1998-1999 season. The En Garde Arts ephemera consists of clippings, photocopies, reviews, programs, fliers, production photographs, press releases, financial papers, and other documents pertaining to En Garde Arts. less