News from Beyond

In the organizer's words:

"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 new production "News from Beyond", Gob Squad use voice messages to send live news from the urban space into the theater, where the audience is literally sitting in the dark. Cut off from the world beyond the theater space, it witnesses a kind of 21st century necromancy that attempts to give form to the messages and voices from outside the space. Gob Squad act as mediums who wander between worlds in order to establish connections to the other side. In the process, the remains left on the side of the road become just as significant as the change in temperature and weather, and encounters with things, animals and plants provide answers to our unanswered questions just as much as those with passers-by and the neighborhood. Gradually, incoming messages condense into a collage of sounds, filling the initially deserted stage and developing a life of their own. Eventually, individual things and people emerge from the fog and make the worlds appear more permeable through their presence. 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 what separates us and to ask ourselves what we want to connect with. Which voices do we follow? And can we exorcize the ghosts of our present to imagine a reconnected future?

Price information:

Solidary price system (freely selectable): 8 € / 12 € / 21 € / 36 €