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Mission Drift

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Mission Drift (US Premiere)

“The liveliest lesson on desire, destruction, and economics that you’ll see in many a year.” – The Village Voice

“What a blast. Economics has never been more playfully dissected… gorgeous, gaudy musical.”
– The Guardian

“Mission Drift is that rare beast, a musical in which the music is really cool – jazz, blues, gospel and a little Elvis of course, all performed by a powerful cast of five with panache and soul. The performances are excellent … the ambition here is breathtaking and the energy intoxicating.”
– The Independent

“The TEAM have slowly but surely become the artistic conscience of a younger generation.”
– The Herald

“A lush panorama of contemporary Americana.” -The Financial Times

Winner of the 2011 Scotsman Fringe First and the Herald Angel Awards
Winner of the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize

Mission Drift is a pioneering journey west through time and space in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism. In this critically acclaimed contemporary musical with a score that fuses Vegas glitz with Western ballads, seductive storyteller Miss Atomic interweaves the epic saga of two immortal Dutch teens with an intimate portrait of a cocktail waitress and a cowboy. A political and urgent work about creation and destruction, bankruptcy and bonanza, and the crumbling myth of an eternal frontier.

Featuring: Heather Christian, Amber Gray*, Brian Hastert*, Libby King, Ian Lassiter*
Musicians: Matt Bogdanow, Sasha Brown, Gabe Gordon

Directed by: Rachel Chavkin
Scenic Design: Nick Vaughan
Costume Design: Brenda Abbandandolo
Lighting Design: Jake Heinrichs
Sound Design: Matt Hubbs
Associate Lighting Design: Seá n Linehan
Dramaturg: Paz Pardo
Stage Manager: Dave Polato*

*member Actor’s Equity Assn.

Gen. Manager: Nate Koch
Line Producer: Danielle Long
Tech. Director: Joe Cantalupo
Tour Producer: Michael Mushalla

Written by the TEAM in collaboration with Heather Christian and Sarah Gancher

Music by Heather Christian

Mission Drift was made possible with support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Panta Rhea Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the JMJ Family Fund, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Almeida Theatre, Performance Space 122, & Culturgest.

It was developed at London’s Almeida Theatre, Brooklyn’s BRICStudio, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, LMCC’s Swing Space grant at Building 110 on Governors Island, the Orchard Project, Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival, CUNY’s Prelude Festival, and ArtsEmerson.

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Presented as a part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival
The Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St., Manhattan, NY
Jan 8 – Feb 4, 2012
Feb 4 8pm
1 hr 50 min

Architecting

architecting

“Wake up in 2009 in the hands of a theater company who knows what it’s doing” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Architecting is an exhilarating saga that weaves through past and future to create a requiem for modern America. A collision of horses, sex and hoop skirts, burning plantations and nasty hurricanes, this musical, time-bending, multi-media epic rockets between reconstructions, real and imagined, of citizens and nations.

The TEAM is the Theatre of the Emerging American Moment, a theatre company dedicated to dissecting and celebrating the experience of living in America today. 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winners (2005 – 2008), 2008 Total Theatre Award, 2007 Best Production Dublin Fringe, and TimeOut New York’s Top Ten 2007. The TEAM’s work has been seen stateside, all over New York, including Performance Space 122; nationally, including the Walker Art Center and Vanderbilt University; internationally, including London’s Battersea Arts Centre, the Bristol Old Vic, Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, and the Galway Arts Festival.

Photos by Yi Zhao

Architecting was created with support from the National Theater of Scotland Workshop, the Greenwall Foundation, the Panta Rhea Foundation, the Battersea Arts Centre in London, and the Orchard Project.

Architecting was developed at the BAC (May 2007), the 2007 CUNY Prelude Festival (Sept 2007), 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York (May 2008), the Orchard Project (June 2008). Architecting (Part One) made its world premiere at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Presented by Performance Space 122 as part of COIL 09 and Under The Radar festivals

Extended at Performance Space 122:
Thu, Jan 22 – Sun, Feb 15, 2009
Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5pm
Tickets from $25

Particularly in the Heartland

“Explosive youthful energy…sheer intelligence…sense of history…radical theatrical vision… willingness to express idealism and hope, as well as cynicism and despair, gives their work its special richness, and its political edge… new heights of controlled madness.” -The Scotsman

What if Robert F. Kennedy had survived the assassination in 1968? Why would citizens most harmed by domestic policies empower their government further? What happens when outsiders are allowed in? Following their sold-out run in London and the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The TEAM presents a play about losing sight of America and trying to fall back in love with it.

Approximate Running Time : 1 hour, 45 minutes

Want to know more about the TEAM? www.theteamplays.org

EXTENDED RUN: Jan 23-27
Wed – Sun at 7:30 pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)

PS122 Premiere
February 26 – March 18 2007