“we would never leave the world like this. that’s why we put you here. you hear us?” – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Dub: Finding Ceremony”
In their latest production, Gob Squad use their phones to send live voice messages from the urban space into the dark void of the theatre. Cut off from the world beyond, the audience witnesses a 21st century seance. A sparse landscape of invisible spirits manifest news and sonic evidence of truths that seem to have disappeared from our daily lives, despite being all around us. Gob Squad act as mediums who wander between two worlds in order to establish contact and break through to the other side. On their journeys, details such as items discarded by the roadside become just as significant as a change in temperature or atmospheric conditions. Encounters with things, animals and plants provide answers to questions, passers-by give clues to the unresolved. Gradually the incoming messages condense into a collage of sounds, filling the empty stage and developing a life of their own. Eventually items and spirits emerge from the fog and make the worlds appear more permeable through their appearance. In the flash of the possibility of a real exchange, what feels far away suddenly comes very close to us and becomes a tangible moment of the here and now. “News from Beyond” invites us to overcome barriers of time and space and ‘seeing is believing’. What separates us? And who or what do we want to connect with? Which voices do we dare to follow? And can we exorcise the ghosts of our present to imagine a reconnected future?
Infos
- Duration: 100 min.
- Language: German and English with English or German live translation
- on 24.04., 19:00 Reception: 10 years alliance of international production houses
- Mousonturm co-production
Accessibility
Accessibility of Location
Sponsors and Supporters
Konzept: Gob Squad
Entwickelt von: Oska Melina Borcherding, Johanna Freiburg, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost und Simon Will
Performance: Passant*innen und vier der oben Genannten
Komposition und Sounddesign: Manuela Schininà
Live-Sounddesign und Soundtechnik: Catalina Fernandez
Technische Leitung: Chris Umney
Lichtdesign: Chris Umney, Lea Schneidermann
Bühnenbild: Amina Nouns
Kostüme: Emma Cattell, Sarah Thom
Dramaturgie und Produktionsleitung: Christina Runge
Live-Übersetzung Berlin: PANTHEA – Irina Bondas
Audiodeskription Konzept und Redaktion: Mariam Nazaryan, Bärbel Dick-Fritzsche, Conny Walter
Audiodeskription Sprecherinnen: Mariam Nazaryan, Conny Walter
Tasttour: Bärbel Dick-Fritzsche
Künstlerische Mitarbeit: Helene von Schirach, Anna Zrenner
Assistenz Bühnenbild und Kostüme: Carla Lou Schäfer
Hospitanz: Jola Hauschild
Company Management Team: Heleen De Boever, Caroline Gentz, Talea Schuré, Grischa Schwiegk
Mit Dank an: Sladja Blazan
Produktion: Gob Squad. Koproduktion: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, FFT Düsseldorf, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Kanuti Gildi SAAL Tallinn. Gefördert durch: Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. Unterstützt durch: theaterhaus berlin.
Gob Squad Arts Collective erhält Förderung im Rahmen des Konzeptförderungszeitraumes 2024 – 2027 des Landes Berlin, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.
Gefördert im Rahmen des Bündnisses internationaler Produktionshäuser von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
Touch tour and audio description
Touch tour and audio description on 25 April
- Live audio description in German for blind and visually impaired viewers, preceded by a touch tour.
- The guided tour starts at 7 pm and lasts approx. 20 minutes. The meeting point is in front of the entrance to the theatre.
- You can obtain the receivers and headphones for the audio description from the front of house staff at the entrance to the auditorium.
- We offer an accompanying service from Merianplatz stop (U4) and Zoo stop (U6 / U7)
- Please let us know via barrierefreiheit@mousonturm.de or 01590 - 184 70 05 if you would like to take advantage of the audio description & tactile tour or accompanying service
- Audio route description from Merianplatz to Mousonturm
- Audio flyer on SoundCloud