On May 13 1985, nearly 500 police officers, fire fighters, and city officials gathered in the Osage neighborhood of West Philadelphia to initiate an armed standoff with a radical, back-to-the-land, black liberation group called MOVE. The Philadelphia Police Department dropped a hand-made bomb on the MOVE house and ordered that the ensuing fire not be extinguished. As a result, 65 neighboring homes burned to the ground and 250 people were left homeless.

Re-Enactment ise a performance ritual in remembrance of the MOVE bombing. A free-to-download .pdf script, the piece is intended to be performed at home, around the dinner table, by families, friends, congregations, and other communities. Re-Enactment invites each gathered community to cast individuals as real and imagined characters from history. Reading aloud from the script, the performers use every-day objects to collectively honor this largely forgotten tragedy.