- Theatre
- NL premiere
Is Anybody Home?
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The performance uses a confetti cannon and loud noises.
In this interactive performance, the famous collective Gob Squad creates a live film that unfolds before the audience’s eyes. A local Utrecht resident swaps places with the theater group, inviting the audience into their private space. The performance explores the boundaries of theater, privacy, and the connection between those who watch and those who are watched. As the film develops in the theater, private apartments are entered, and questions about home, ownership, and personal boundaries are constantly examined and challenged.
“This is the front door to where I live, isn’t it? And this is my key? Is anybody home? OK, I’m going in… Is this my own room here? And this big double bed—it’s mine, right? All just for me! I’m so exhausted. I’m going to lie down now. But first, tell me: What gets me out of bed in the morning? Am I happy here?”
Gob Squad has created an interactive live film that pushes empathy and the idea of sharing the experiences of others to the extreme. The performers swap places with a local guest, who is invited to watch a film, set in their own private apartment. As the film unfolds live in the theatre before their eyes, boundaries of privacy and property are constantly negotiated. Strangers’ beds are slept in, and bodies are taken over. Where do you begin, and where do I end? Is this a nightmare or a dream come true?
Meanwhile, on the streets, another body embarks on a mysterious, fairytale-like quest. What is home beyond four walls? Where do we find the opening in the membrane of the private to create connections rather than draw divisions? Where can we come together? In the theatre? In a stranger’s house? In my body? Our minds? On the streets? Is anybody home?
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Credits
Concept and Direction: Gob Squad
Development and performance (in changing cast): Mira Partecke, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will, Johanna Freiburg
Tonight’s cast:
Local guest performer:
Live Sound Mix: Catalina Fernandez
Sound Design: Catalina Fernandez, Isabel Gonzalez Toro
Video Design: Miles Chalcraft
Lighting Design: Frank Novak
Set Design: Nina von Mechow, Gob Squad
Costume Design: Sarah Thom, Ingken Benesch, Frank Salewski
Dramaturgy: Johanna Höhmann, Christina Runge
Production Management: Christina Runge
Production Assistant, Stage Manager: Anna Zrenner
Dramaturgy Assistant: Leonie Jenning
Set Design Assistant: Konrad Walkow
Intern: Zhuoer Chen
Gob Squad Management Team
General Enquiries, Distribution and Funding: Heleen De Boever
Financial Strategy and Legal Affairs: Caroline Gentz
Finance, Politics and Sustainability: Grischa Schwiegk
Touring & PR: Talea Schuré
Thanks: Vandross Diogo Valéria Alage, Josefin Fischer, Arda Görkem, Rojin Haddad, Janoushka Kamin, Lilith Krause, Zarah Kofler, Fabio Mazzocchi, Yu Sun, Daniel Hromyko, Fernanda Farah, Oska Borcherding, Mariana Senne, Vanessa Unzalu Troya and all mums and flatmates
“Is Anybody Home?” is a production from Gob Squad and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
Gob Squad is regularly funded within the Konzeptförderung 2024 – 2027 by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt Berlin.
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