The TEAM
Reconstructing (Still Working But the Devil Might Be Inside)A meta-theatrical play that explores how we might move through history together in the aftermath of slavery. Hop Commission
Onstage is a two-story house. From one angle, it's mucked out after a flood. From another, it's a new development wrapped in Tyvek. And from another, it's "Tara" from Gone with the Wind being transformed into an Airbnb. The piano can't be tuned. Someone is quilting in the corner. Come in.
The work was co-directed by Zhailon Levingston and Tony award-winning Rachel Chavkin, best known for directing the Broadway hits Hadestown and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. In 2019, she was the only woman directing a musical on Broadway. This spirit of groundbreaking collaboration extended to the writing process, which was led by a collective of 21 Black-, POC-, and white-identifying artists ranging in age from 28 through 98.
Propelled by a quilt-like score, the work slips between fact and fiction, performance and ritual, process and product, to tell a story of historical figures and fictional characters seeking and fleeing intimacy—and how these theater artists are doing the same.
Reconstructing was commissioned and developed during the TEAM's 2020 residency at the Hop, a longstanding partnership rooted in bold experimentation. The Hop remains a proud supporter of this powerful work and its evolution.
Part of Dartmouth's celebration of America's 250th anniversary.
Founded in 2004, the TEAM is a Brooklyn-based experimental theater collective, spirited by some of the wildest and deepest artists working today. Once described by the Guardian as "theatrical excavators of American culture, American dreams, and the American psyche," the TEAM collaboratively creates new works about the experience of living in the United States today to generate dialogue about our nation's past, present and future through production and touring. We believe how we make is as important as what we make, and our producing practices strive to embody our values of collective liberation.
To date, the TEAM has created and toured 12 works, including Mission Drift, RoosevElvis and Primer for a Failed Superpower. Our work has been seen locally, nationally and internationally at venues including the Public Theater, PS122, Roulette, The Bushwick Starr, A.R.T., Walker Art Center, London's National Theater and Almeida Theatre, Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, the Salzburg Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival and more.
“complex and combustible project”
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