RECONSTRUCTING

October 2024

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Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)
OCT 24—OCT 27, 2024
BAM and The TEAM Present
Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)
Work-in-progress showings of a new play created by The TEAM
Directed by Rachel Chavkin and Zhailon Levingston
Part of Next Wave 2024 & Emerging Visions
On the stage 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. Sometimes it looks like it’s on fire. Someone is quilting in the corner. Come in.

Helmed by a writing collective of 21 artists ranging in age from 28 through 98, Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside) is a new work from Brooklyn-based theater collective the TEAM. Exploring intimacy between Black-, POC-, and white-identifying Americans, this singular meta-theater experiment wrestles with the question of how, in the aftermath of slavery, we might move through history together.

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Written by Brenda Abbandandolo, Denée Benton, Eric Berryman, Vinie Burrows, Rachel Chavkin, Eisa Davis, André De Shields, Jerome Ellis, Katherine Freer, Jill Frutkin, Amber Gray, Jeremy O. Harris, Modesto Flako Jimenez, Marika Kent, Libby King, Ian Lassiter, Zhailon Levingston, Jake Margolin, James Harrison Monaco, Kristen Sieh, Nick Vaughan, and Jillian Walker . Composed by James Harrison Monaco, Jillian Walker and Maya Sharpe . Choreographed by nicHi Douglas . Scenic design | Lawrence Moten . Adapted from original scenic design by Nick Vaughan . Props design by Patricia Marjorie . Video and projection design by Katherine Freer . Lighting design by Marika Kent . Costume and object design by Brenda Abbandandolo, Marika Kent, and Kristen Sieh . Sound design by Mikhail Fiksel

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