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TEAM, The

TEAM, THE

  (2004 - )
Nationality:    USA
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the TEAM is the Theatre of the Emerging American Moment. We are a New York City-based Theatre company dedicated to dissecting and celebrating the experience of living in America today. We devise plays by examining a wealth of material, ranging from existing texts (fiction, theory, Drama, etc.) to images taken from visual art and film, and then combining that research with original writing and staging. the work combines aggressive athleticism with delicate examinations of the social and political factors shaping our world today, keeping the brain, eyes, and heart of the audience constantly stimulated. At times a rock concert, at times a sporting event, the TEAM has been described as avant-garde meets MTV. Ours is a Theatre that does not deny its youth. Our productions are relentless out of necessity, multi-tasking between hyper-intellectual commentaries and exuberANT physicality; we know of no other way to behave. With sweat and humor, the TEAM's plays uphold the fragility and poeticism of the human body and spirit. The TEAM is Jessica Almasy, Frank Boyd, Rachel Chavkin, Stephanie Douglass, Jill Frutkin, Brian Hastert, Jake Heinrichs, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Jake Margolin, Dave Polato, Kristen Sieh, and Nick Vaughan.

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         American Capitalism Project, The         Architecting         Faster         Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)         Holler Sessions, The         Howl         Mission Drift         Particularly in the Heartland         Primer for a Failed Superpower         RoosevElvis         Scottish Enlightenment Project         Thousand Natural Shocks, A         Tortoise In A Nutshell         Waiting For You on the Corner of. . .

American Capitalism Project, The

Synopsis:
Las Vegas needs saving. there's a woman says she's Joan of Arc working in a casino, two outlaws are on the run and there's murder in the wind. Where did our pursuit of happiness go wrong?

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Architecting

Architecting
(workshop production 3LD Art & Technology Center, NY, 2008) From a condemned bar in post-Katrina New Orleans, to the mythical South of Gone with the Wind, to a lonely gas station in Arkansas, Architecting is a multi-media road-tripping requiem for modern America. Ghosts of American prejudice haunt a play, that questions whether this country has ever recovered from slavery and the Civil War. Aggressive athleticism is combined with wicked humor, video crashes against song, and at the center of it all stand humans confronting the world as it changes radically under their feet.

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created by Jessica Almasy, Davey Anderson, Frank Boyd, Rachel Chavkin, Jill Frutkin, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Jake Margolin, Dave Polato, Kristen Sieh, Lucy Kendrick Smith, Nathan Wright and Nick Vaughan with Stephanie Douglass, Jake Heinrichs and Brian Scott

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The TEAM, Performance Space 122 & National Theatre of Scotland Workshop

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Faster

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A woman trapped on a treadmill. She is in the web of the Directorate of Time, an all too real subset of the United States Military, responsible for maintaining time in the country. Inspired by James Gleick's bestseller Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, Faster is a metaphysical romp through both time and memory. Alice, fractured by catastrophe, exists on many planes and is portrayed by three actresses. One has not left her house in over a year and desperately reaches out one night to the only soul she can find, a 411 operator. Another is stuck reliving the same relationship again and again, both moments of distance and moments of joy. The last is running on a treadmill, driven faster and faster by the demons of regret and efficiency. Devised from diverse texts including treatises on time theory, Jeanette Winterson's GUT Symmetries, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, and original writings, Faster looks at the juxtaposition between an accelerating culture and a universe that is literally slowing down. The TEAM's sideways look at life in New York, healing and forging connections in a rushing world, and making an imprint on a dying universe.

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Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)

Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)
A woman has swallowed her television. She is the subject of a scientific experiment: Can a human survive if no one is watching? Isolated in a room with a video camera that may or may not connect her to the outside world, the Experiment begins to channel personalities stolen from game shows, Access Hollywood, and most infamously, America's 37th President. On a desperate quest of the real, she is haunted by his immortal words: "Isn't it a hell of a thing? That the fate of a great nation can depend on camera angles. . ." Give Up! Start Over! is a relentless solo performance about reality television, Richard Nixon, and the search for authenticity in America.

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created by Jessica Almasy and Rachel Chavkin with Jake Heinrichs, Darron L West and Matt Hubbs

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C Venue 34, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    03 Aug 2005

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Holler Sessions, The

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The Holler Sessions, staged as a live radio show, centers around one mans burning obsession for American jazz. Ray, an explosive Kansas City DJ, broadcasts his love of jazz from his shoddy studio with an infectious passion for this uniquely American art form. Rays maniacal rants, razor-sharp insights, and mildly scatological humor are interspersed with truly gorgeous music and lots of space for listening. The Holler Sessions serves as a jazz primer for the uninitiated, a powerful reminder for jazz fans, and an irreverent love letter to the best thing America has ever created.

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Created and produced by Frank Boyd in partnership with the TEAM

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On The Boards    08 Jan 2015

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Howl

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Described as what "jazz would look like if put into human form," HOWL is a wild physical work that takes the text of Allen Ginsberg's revolutionary poem and matches it with four restless and visionary young men. Opening with the immortal line, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," HOWL imagines Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Carl Solomon - to whom the poem is dedicated, as well as the ghost of Naomi Ginsberg - Allen's mother, and sets them to life using the poem as guide. True to both the romance and indulgence of the beats, this work takes Ginsberg at face value: "Most men are blind and live their lives out in blindness. Poets are damned, but they are not blind.They see with the eyes of angels." HOWL is a play about men and madness in America.

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Adapted from the poem by Allen Ginsburg

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Mission Drift

Mission Drift
Mission Drift is a pioneering journey across the USA in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism, created in the blazing heat of a Las Vegas June. Told through atomic blasts, lizard ballet, and original music that fuses Las Vegas glitz with Western ballads and Southern blues, it features two interweaving love stories: the epic saga of an immortal teenage Dutch couple as they travel west from Amsterdam to New Amsterdam in 1624, all the way to modern-day financially devastated Las Vegas, and the intimate portrait of a cocktail waitress and a cowboy grappling with the 2008 recession and their crumbling American dreams. Over it all reigns Miss Atomic, a seductive storyteller/singer inspired by the 1950s beauty pageants celebrating the bombs tested in the Nevada desert. She is the symbol of creation and destruction, bankruptcy and bonanza, and this profoundly unique American city..

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created by Jessica Almasy, Frank Boyd, Jill Frutkin, Sarah Gancher, Amber Gray, Brian Hastert, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Ian Lasiter, Jake Margolin, Dave Polato, Kristen Sieh with Jake Heinrichs and Nick Vaughan; Music By: Heather Christian; lyrics by Heather Christian and The TEAM

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Ohio theatre
66 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012    04 Aug 2010

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The TEAM, Almeida Theatre, PS 122 and Culturgest

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Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1783190256

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Particularly in the Heartland

Particularly in the Heartland
Visit a Kansas where parents vanish, aliens grow in cornfields, New Yorkers fall from the sky, and dead Kennedys stop by for Christmas dinner& Winner of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, shortlisted for the Edinburgh Best Writing Award 2006, awarded Best Production Dublin Fringe 2007, Particularly in the Heartland is a fantastical journey into the geographical center of the United States. The three Springer children are orphaned after what might be a tornado or an alien invasion or the Rapture itself. One by one three visitors arrive: an alien in possession of the body of a dead pregnant teenage girl, an East Coast business woman named Dorothy whose plane has crashed in the cornfields, and the ghost of 1968 democratic presidential hopeful and liberal icon Robert F. Kennedy. A year passes and a new American family is forged in eggs and flour, music and magic. Particularly in the Heartland is a play about losing sight of America and trying to fall back in love with it.

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created by Jessica Almasy, Frank Boyd, Rachel Chavkin, Jill Frutkin, Brian Hastert, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Jake Margolin, Kristen Sieh with Stephanie Douglass, Jake Heinrichs, Chantal Pavageaux and Nick Vaughan

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Primer for a Failed Superpower

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We are preparing for a shifting paradigm. We want to know if and how you can teach someone about the America that you  or your parents or grandparents  grew up with, and how young people teach us to prepare for the future. We are forming a three-generation cover band  with teenagers, ourselves, and retirees  to hijack the jukebox musical with protest songs.

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RoosevElvis

RoosevElvis
An enormous man strides through western landscapes in a place called the Badlands. His dead wife visits him at night in fever dreams. And somewhere else, warmer and decades into the future, in a place called Graceland, another man lies facedown on a toilet. they speak American. they happen to be played by women.

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part of the Almeida Festival 2012

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Scottish Enlightenment Project

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Our tales are similar but the endings are different. In America, the underdog battles against all the odds to triumph in the dying seconds of the game. In Scotland, we dwell on the moments of glorious defeat snatched from the jaws of victory; the glass isn't just half empty, it's been smashed on the bar and waved in your face. On the eve of the Scottish referendum, this new collaboration between the National Theatre of Scotland and The TEAM uses the Scottish Enlightenment as a springboard to dive into the murky depths of our national mythologies.

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Written collaboratively, with Davey Anderson overseeing the group writing process, directed by TEAM Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin, the production will feature Scottish performers Brian Ferguson and Sandy Grierson, and members of the TEAM.

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Thousand Natural Shocks, A

Thousand Natural Shocks, A
A time-bending quartet inspired by Hamlet and other visions of the end of the world. The king is dead and Hamlet and Laertes are called home from their spoiled college lives to find Denmark in chaos - and Ophelia in a blonde wig working at the airport tourist bureau. Horatio records everything, all the while pushing Hamlet to be the leader his country needs. The four youths are rocketed back and forth through time and space: preparations for the king's funeral collide with boxing matches, crash into a wild-eyed Ophelia commanding a million Danish teens to drown themselves in Poland Spring while Laertes blossoms into an aspiring neocon. All the while Hamlet, paralyzed and ironic at the center, struggles to figure out how to take his place in history. Billy Joel wails We Didn't Start the Fire at the funeral in this rock concert deconstruction of Shakespeare's Hamlet for Generation X.

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created by Jessica Almasy, Jill Frutkin, Brian Hastert, and Rachel Chavkin with Jake Heinrichs, Stephanie Douglass and Matt Hubbs

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C Venue 34, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    03 Aug 2005

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Tortoise In A Nutshell

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responding to a provocation

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part of theatre Uncut (www.theatreuncut.com). theatre Uncut was created to encourage debate and galvanise action around political issues that affect all of our lives.

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Waiting For You on the Corner of. . .

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A woman sits in a Kansas City office long after hours. She writes, shreds & writes again, evolving a message that boils a terribly complex set of emotions into a short series of words perfect for the inside of a greeting card. Turning out to the audience, she teaches the intricate process through which a Hallmark card is created. Seeking clarity, she pictures cornfields. A sunset. A family farm. A fireplace with stockings, light in the darkness. She is not in Kansas City anymore. . . A DJ is trapped in his booth. Outside uninformed voices are everywhere. Inside are gift cards to give away. He is fanatical about the KC scene that helped defined jazz in America, he only sees unmitigated chaos now. Improvisation takes discipline, & he sees none. Everything is paste, or masochistically dissonant. He speaks to the audience beyond his glass, dissects the mechanics of a jazz session: one musician measuring another, the protocol for voicing disrespect, how consensus on a tune is abandoned & reclaimed. He teaches listening. And the music carries him around the river's bend, to where the Missouri meets the Mississippi & heads north, arriving in Davenport, where a white kid named Bix learned to play the trumpet. An examination of what it means to be a union on personal and national levels. How do we listen? How do we talk to each other? And what do we do while waiting for the other ______ to be ready.

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Kansas City Repertory Theatre; workshop production    Feb 2013

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