The TEAM: Reconstructing (Still Working But the Devil Might Be Inside)

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.

Part of Dartmouth's celebration of America's 250th anniversary.