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ReconstructingA powerful new music-theater work that asks how we can move forward together in the aftermath of slavery in America. A Hop Commission, directed by Zhailon Levingston and Rachel Chavkin ('Hadestown').
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.
Reconstructing—the latest work by the internationally-renowned theater company, the TEAM—makes its way to the Hop after a sold-out run in New York for America's most iconic experimental theatre festival, Under the Radar®.
Directed by Tony award-winning Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown) and Zhailon Levingston (CATS: The Jellicle Ball) and co-written by a collective of 22 artists ages 29 to 99, Reconstructing is a "complex and combustible project" (Sara Holdren, Vulture). Anchored by humor, movement and an electrifying score, this work melts time. As a flooded Tyvek-encased house becomes a plantation becomes a college campus mainstay, the show's tour-de-force cast embodies fictional characters, historical figures and their own racialized family histories to ask how, in the aftermath of slavery, we might move through history together.
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.
Directed by Rachel Chavkin and Zhailon Levingston
Written by Brenda Abbandandolo, Denée Benton, Eric Berryman, Vinie Burrows, Rachel Chavkin, Eisa Davis, Josiah Davis, André De Shields, nicHi douglas, JJJJJerome Ellis, Kate Freer, Jill Frutkin, Amber Gray, Jeremy O. Harris, Modesto Flako Jimenez, Ian Lassiter, Zhailon Levingston, Jake Margolin, James Harrison Monaco, Nick Vaughan and Jillian Walker
Composed by James Harrison Monaco, Maya Sharpe and Jillian Walker with Eric Berryman
Choreographed by nicHi douglas
RELATED EVENT:
Hood Museum Tour
Inhabiting Historical Time
Thu, Mar 19 at 5:30 pm
Join co-curators Amelia Kahl and Alisa Swindell for a special tour of Inhabiting Historical Time: Slavery and Its Afterlives, which explores slavery's impact and its enduring legacies via histories of oppression, resistance, subversion, and resilience.
Part of Dartmouth's celebration of America's 250th anniversary.
Funded in part by the Donna Bascom 1973 & Paul Biddelman Fund, the Howard W. 1932 and Dorothy G. Pierpont Fund, David J. O'Connor and the Blye Fund for Artists' Residencies at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
Photo by Marika Kent
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”
Vulture
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