| Year/Length: | 2018, 110’ (Italian premiere) |
|---|---|
| Concept: | Gob Squad |
| Performed and devised by: | Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will |
| Cast (for the Biennale Teatro 2024): | Berit Stumpf, Johanna Freiburg, Bastian Trost, Sean Patten |
| Venice guests: | Alessandro Bressanello, Guido Laurjni, Manuel Nakhil, Margherita Piantini, Pierandrea Rosato, Yoko Yamada |
| Sound design: | Sebastian Bark (Live sound mix) |
| Video design: | Miles Chalcraft (Live video mix) |
| Costumes: | Ingken Benesch |
| Set realisation: | Lena Mody |
| Lighting design and technical management: | Chris Umney |
| Dramaturgy and production management: | Christina Runge |
| Artistic Support: | Mat Hand, Amina Nouns |
| Costume assistant: | Claudia Gali |
| Set realisation assistant: | Julia Buntzel |
| Production assistant: | Ben Mohai |
| Directing interns: | Patty Kim, Amina Nouns |
| Company manager: | Marta Hewelt |
| Funding and financial planning: | Caroline Gentz |
| Financial administration and production: | Grischa Schwiegk |
| Touring and public relations: | Talea Schuré |
| Thanks to: | David Ellington, Jamie Beddard, Carina Zox, Ikebana master Nicolaus Peters, all the guests during the residencies and rehearsals |
| With music from: | Kate Bush, Julius Eastman, Group Therapy, The Carpenters, Dalbello, Battles, Fever Ray, Yacht, The Unthanks, and Bernd Wiesemann |
| Production by: | Gob Squad and HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) |
| Developed with support from: | Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles) |
| Co-production: | Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Leipzig, Wiesbaden Biennale, Schlachthaus Theater Bern |
| Commissioned by: | LIFT, Brighton Festival and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts |
| A project by: | Imagine 2020 (2.0), supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union |
| Supported using public funding by: | Arts Council England |
| Notes: | Funded by the state of Berlin, Berlin Senate Chancellery for Culture and Europe. Gob Squad is regularly funded within Konzeptförderung 2024- 2027 by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion |
Theatre
Gob Squad - Creation (Pictures for Dorian)
Description
What are the concealed mechanisms of power that lie within the triangular relationship of artist, object and viewer? Gob Squad Arts Collective have travelled the world for almost thirty years and now find themselves well and truly middle-aged, with no desire to exit the stage just yet. In Creation (Pictures for Dorian), they are joined onstage by a diverse group of local performers a generation younger and a generation older than themselves.
Their aim? To peep behind the vanity-mirror and search for answers to questions of beauty, morality, ageing and power, and to ask why they so crave the eye of the beholder. The project is inspired by Oscar Wilde’s character, Dorian Gray, who meddles in the domain of the gods with the aid of a magical painting. He suspends the process of ageing and remains young and beautiful forever, at a terrible cost. There’s probably a little bit of Dorian in all of us. But what happens when we are denied the limelight forever?