Basetrack Live is a theatrical collaboration between theatre company En Garde Arts and corpsmen and families of the 1st Battalion/8th Marines.
The production premiered in Austin, Texas on September 11, 2014, and is touring to more than 20 cities across the US, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Veterans Day 2014.
Live music, images from independent photojournalists taken during the War in Afghanistan and post-deployment filmed interviews are woven throughout the performed narrative of a young Marine and his wife.
Created by the nonprofit organization November Eleven, and funded by a News Challenge grant from the Knight Foundation, this project was launched by Teru Kuwayama and a team of photojournalists embedded with the 1st Battalion/8th Marines in southern Afghanistan.
In addition, Hamburger developed a range of initiatives to bring together veterans and members of the military community with a traditional theatre-going audience - two constituencies rarely, if ever, in conversation.