News From Beyond dares you to switch off your device and tune into the spacious apparitions that live “in the beyond.”
A sparse landscape of invisible spirits offers news and sonic evidence of truths that seem to have disappeared from our daily lives, despite being all around us. Details such as things left by the roadside, descriptions of the weather, or other conditions of urban nature are called into being. Encounters with passersby are condensed into a collage of sounds that fill the initially deserted stage. Gradually, strangers emerge from the fog—everyday life takes a detour across the stage on their way from A to B, allowing two worlds to become more permeable to each other in a playful exchange.
Where are these not-so-distant voices from, and what are they trying to reconnect us to? Can we exorcise the ghosts of our present to imagine a reconnected future?
World premiere 5. Feb. 2025 HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
Forthcoming Dates:
24 Apr– 25 Apr 2025
Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
Mousonturm
Past Dates:
February 2025
Berlin, Germany,
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
February 2025
Berlin, Germany,
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Concept: Gob Squad
Devised by: Oska Melina Borcherding, Johanna Freiburg, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost and Simon Will
Performed by: Passers-by and four of the above
Composition and Sound Design: Manuela Schininà
Live Sound Design and Sound Technician: Catalina Fernandez
Set Design: Amina Nouns
Costumes: Emma Cattell, Sarah Thom
Lighting Design: Chris Umney, Lea Schneidermann
Technical Management: Chris Umney
Dramaturgy and Production: Christina Runge
Live-Translation Berlin: PANTHEA – Irina Bondas
Artistic Assistance: Helene von Schirach, Anna Zrenner
Set and Costumes Assistance: Carla Lou Schäfer
Intern: Jola Hauschild
Distribution & Funding: Heleen de Boever
Company Management Team: Heleen De Boever, Caroline Gentz, Talea Schuré, Grischa Schwiegk
World Premiere on 5th Feb 2025 am HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin (HAU1)
With special thanks to Sladja Blažan.
„News from Beyond“ is a production by Gob Squad. In co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, FFT Düsseldorf, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main and Kanuti Gildi SAAL Tallinn.
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
With friendly support of theaterhaus berlin.
Gob Squad Arts Collective is regularly funded within concept funding 2024 – 2027 Berlin, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.