Concept: Gob Squad / Performed and devised by: Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will / Costumes: Emma Cattell / Dramaturgy, production management: Christina Runge / Production Assistant: Emma Cattell / Intern: Leonie Rodrian / Technical Direction: Torsten Schwarzbach / Funding, financial planning Gob Squad: Caroline Gentz / Financial administration, production Gob Squad: Grischa Schwiegk / Touring, public relations: Mat Hand
Gob Squad
Are You With Us?
Durational performance
- Performance
German /
English /
approx. 240 mins.
What happens when youʼve been together nearly 30 years? When you know each other by inside out? When your private and professional lives are totally inseparable? When you have grown, matured and aged together, shared relationships, love, children, an office and artistic visions and produced over 30 pieces of work. When you have travelled the world together and been through thick and thin, shared highs and lows, fame and failures. And you still want to go on. You go for counselling, get yourself a life coach. You try to take stock and settle old scores. And you ask yourselves all the questions you never dared to ask. You put your cards on the table and shamelessly expose your soul.
This can be painful, healing and sometimes brutally funny. A foolhardy descent into hell beyond rules and morals. In any case itʼs a performative experiment, with a high risk of failure. Under no circumstances should this moment happen behind closed doors, away from the public gaze. On the contrary – Gob Squad love their audiences, and canʼt imagine life without them Over the years Gob Squad audiences have been allowed to come closer and closer. They have become survivors and companions, have found themselves in the roles of co-stars, party guests and lovers, and have at times replaced the performers to be guided by headphones onstage. The audience has become an integral part of the whole Gob Squad experience: we need them and they need us.
“Are You With Us” is half group therapy, half nightmare. The participating performers will attempt, after almost 30 years of working together, to heal old wounds and finally to say what cannot be said.
Cast
Dates
Past
Notes:
After the performance on 7.12.: 30th Birthday Party with Manuela Schininà, crunchytrost, Realplayer, mma Kgosi
Credits
Production: Gob Squad, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, De Montfort University Leicester. Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Gob Squad is regularly funded within the Konzeptförderung 2024 – 2027 by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
Latest information for arrival:
There is currently a construction site on Hallesches Ufer between Wilhelmstraße and Möckernbrücke underground station. There is a divided replacement route for pedestrians (right) and cyclists (left), which are separated by a yellow ground line. The carriageway is narrowed to one lane.
Travelling to HAU2 via U Hallesches Tor:
If you are coming from Hallesches Tor underground station, you will have to use an alternative footpath from Wilhelmstraße / Hallesches Ufer junction, which is separated from the carriageway by a construction fence – the actual footpath is currently closed. Please note: the alternative route is also used by cyclists. Pedestrians should keep to the right. We therefore currently recommend that visually impaired or blind visitors come to the HAU with an accompanying person.
Arrival HAU2 via U Möckernbrücke:
When you leave Möckernbrücke underground station, please stay on the footpath on the canal side until you reach Hallesches Ufer / Großbeerenstraße junction – the opposite side is currently closed due to construction work.
