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Our place in the top ten! February 2012 |
We are very pleased to announce that Before Your Very Eyes has been selected for this year's Theatertreffen. A bit like the Oscars of the German theatre world (or perhaps the Golden Globes) Theatertreffen showcases 10 outstanding productions from the preceeding year. Performances will take place in Berlin this May. Hooray! Before Your Very Eyes |
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Kitchen wows the critics in New York as the final weekend approaches. February 2012 |
Tickets for the final performances of Kitchen at The Public Theater are selling fast. It's been one helluva ride presenting our Warhol inspired live film experience here in the city where the original films were made almost half a century ago.
America's harshest theatre critic (allegedly!) wrote in the New York Times "It's a smart, goofy, surprisingly moving, absolute gem of a show. It’s a live magic act of sorts, and one of the most enjoyable such feats I’ve ever seen at the theater." NY Press said it was "mesmerizing, intellectually rigorous, laugh-out-loud funny. The first must-see show of an unusually busy 2012." The New York Post found it "witty and constantly entertaining — a wonderful integration of film and theater" Tickets can be bought here. The show runs until 5th Feb. |
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One month in New York January 2012 |
Yes, we're off on a trip to the city that never sleeps, the one that's so good they named it twice, for a month of performances. This time last year we took our Warhol-inspired Gob Squad's Kitchen back to the source with performances at NYC's Under The Radar festival. The locals forgave us our bad american accents, gave us warm applause and (mostly) positive feedback in their blogs. This year we're back with 3 performances of Super Night Shot. We will be doing our best to avoid the NYPD's watchful eye whilst trying to create a great filmic moment of passion, emotion and liberation on the streets of Manhattan.
After that we're heading north for a few performances of Kitchen at the ICA Boston, followed by a 3 week run of Kitchen at The Public Theater in East Village. Completing the January residency, we have an exhibition at the Goethe Institut's Wyoming Building, showing a range of rarely seen video works and enough resources to satisfy even the nerdiest follower of our work. If you've ever seen The Muppets Take Manhattan, where Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang take a show to Broadway, you can imagine how excited we are... |
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Gobsquad.com relaunched and reloaded December 2011 |
Many moons ago, back in the twentieth century, we bought the right to use gobsquad.com, denying our namesakes in Australia (a barbecue society) and Denmark (a punk rock band) their chance for a top-level domain. After many long hours spent at many computers, we are proud to present our new website. Designed and built by Gamut Media with illustrations by Andree Volkmann, the new improved gobsquad.com has more words, more pictures and more videos than ever before. We're still uploading content and tweaking functionality until early January, so keep visiting over the coming days and watch it expand. Do tell us what you think of our new online home. |
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Back from Bangalore December 2011 |
It's been 8 years and over 150 performances since Super Night Shot first hit the icy streets of Berlin, capturing the city in a one-take film made just one hour before the audience come to watch it.
On 14th Dec we made our first trip to India, presenting the piece in Bangalore courtesy of Goethe Institut. During the 60 minutes in the streets we met a yogic guru, men selling vegetables, women buying fruit, security guards, uniformed schoolchildren, several goats, three chickens and a cow. The film ended with the gang of performer/activists returning to the venue in motorized rickshaws… Super Night Shot |
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Half group therapy, half performance nightmare... December 2011 |
It's the return of Are You With Us! Gob Squad's latest performance is an evening which is by turns painfully revealing and brutally funny. Following an experimental showing last year at HAU DREI, ARE YOU WITH US? is being shown again at HAU ZWEI on 8th and 10th December. It's half group therapy, half performance nightmare. Join us up close and personal as we enter our heart of darkness... Are You With Us? |
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Unnamed performance gets rave review November 2011 |
We quietly premiered our latest production last month at Bristol's Arnolfini. The lecture/performance is so new, we haven't finalised the title yet. We're continuing to explore the possibilities of 'remote acting', as used in KITCHEN, and speaking 'through' audience members about our work and the issues it raises about the transference of individual identity and the separation of the self and the body. Read all about it in this review in Total Theatre magazine. |
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The October Revolutions October 2011 |
TV news is full of images of protests, riots and revolutions at the moment. If push came to shove where you live, whose side would you be on? What would you be prepared to sacrifice for the cause? Are you part of the problem, or part of the solution? Is a revolution a desirable anyway? These questions are at the heart of our live-film-experience REVOLUTION NOW, performed in Dublin, Berlin and Turin next month. Join us! Revolution Now! |