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Ireland’s national theatre first opened its doors in 1904.

While traveling in various parts of the country to do interviews upon which Notes From the Field is based, I was particularly influenced by two women I met in South Carolina: Millicent Brown and Beatrice Rivers.

What should happen to an elementary school student who declines to come in from recess when the teacher calls? Kids in grades K-3 have been suspended for these specific behaviors— kicked out of school for a time simply for acting like children.

The musical score for my work is born out of this blues tradition, which includes call and response, improvisation, inflection, and tension and release.

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It can be hard to explain to people in the outside world what has happened here in our country, the Democratic Republic of Congo—except for in one way. The only way.

I came traumatized and hopeless, but the City of Joy community helped me turn into a woman filled with an irresistible feeling of plenitude and self-esteem.

Questions of self-determination, power and courage propel the TEAM’s RoosevElvis into absurd, rambunctious scenarios and deeply-felt moments of authentic pain.