“Deceleration Lab allowed us to do something that we'd never done before: collaboratively create and perform a new work of music theater that drew both from dense historical source material as well as from our own lives. By focusing on process rather than product, the Lab gave us space to dream big and think expansively about utopia, God, gender, and the end of the world. From that space, we created a show that continues to change, grow, and resonate with the audience on a deep level over the course of its many iterations—like at HERE this December! Thanks, the Assembly!!"

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— Andy Boyd, syd island & Philip Santos Schaffer