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

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.

This project is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and MAP Fund and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Written by Brenda Abbandandolo, Denée Benton, Eric Berryman, Vinie Burrows, Rachel Chavkin, Eisa Davis, André De Shields, JJJJJerome 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 by 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

Reconstructing partner organizations are Round House Theater (Lead Commissioner, DC), The Broad Stage (CA), Carolina Performing Arts (NC), ArtsEmerson (MA), The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth (NH), Lumberyard (NY), Alabama Shakespeare Festival (AL) and Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC).

Process Chaplains - Milta Vega-Cardona, Iya Adesina
Associate Director - Josiah Davis

Originally developed with Matthew Hubbs

Photo: Alon Koppel

ONSALE DATES

Thu, Jun 20 at 1pm
BAM Members & Patrons

Thu, Jun 27 at 1pm
General Public

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      Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater

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