{"product_id":"9781783191901","title":"Five Plays by The TEAM","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes the plays: \u003ci\u003eGive Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Natural Shocks\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eParticularly in the Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eArchitecting\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMission Drift\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded in 2004, the TEAM is an internationally-acclaimed Brooklyn-based collaborative ensemble. Once described as “Gertrude Stein meets MTV,” the TEAM's mission is to make new work about the experience of living in America today. Released in celebration of the company's 10th anniversary, \u003ci\u003eFive Plays by the TEAM\u003c\/i\u003e includes a timeline of events, exclusive production and rehearsal images, personal introductions to the plays by members of the company, and a foreword by John Tiffany (\u003ci\u003eBlackwatch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOnce\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A chaotic composite of dubious French postmodernist Jean Baudrillard, John Saade’s Reality TV Handbook and Nixon’s White House transcripts, among others, it bores into the 21st century American nightmare like a reckless dentist who has no anaesthetic.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Herald\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eGive Up! Start Over!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This remixed \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e touches on a whole range of idea: the destruction of idols, nature of democracy, and very question of how to be good…the show is as challenging as it is mad.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Natural Shocks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Simultaneously intelligent, rueful, celebratory, delightful and devastatingly sad, the show actually lives up to its ambitions.\" - \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eParticularly in the Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How stimulating to wake up in 2009 in the hands of a present-tense theater company who knows what it’s doing… [\u003ci\u003eArchitecting\u003c\/i\u003e] considers, with a refreshing lack of judgment, just what allows people to survive catastrophe, acquiring a poignancy and humanity and quietly summoning entire lives of everyday loss.\" - Ben Brantley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eArchitecting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Its mix of the epic and everyday, myth and madness, music and storytelling, create a glorious patchwork in which pitch and tone - are as crucial as intellectual argument. A theatrical tornado, and a sideways glimpse into America's tarnished, weary soul.\" - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eMission Drift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oberon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019013013744,"sku":"9781783191901","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783191901_p0.jpg?v=1769892631","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783191901","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}