Recent Press
from Room Service and Super Night Shot
| ROOM SERVICE "Critic’s choice... highly recommended“ Time Out "While Room Service might bear the multimedia, site-specific tokens of pretension, it’s a remarkably funny, engaging piece that exploits the space of its hotel setting with guile and wit... It’s enigmatic, almost hypnotic, Big Brother directed by Andy Warhol... The charismatic actors make the show’s well-worn themes seem as fresh as newly changed linen.“ The Sunday Times "This is one of the most idiosyncratic productions I’ve seen, a chaotic yet delightful mix of oddities and the occasional profundity.“ Time Out "Gob Squad is one of the few groups who actually do make 'pop-theatre'. They don't simply spice up classical pieces with contemporary chart hits or relocate the plot into a techno club. Gob Squad point their finger to the place where the happy, carefree state of eternal youth starts to get wrinkles." TAZ Hamburg "Gob Squad understand how to grab the audience's attention. By charmingly seducing passive observers and uninvolved onlookers, Gob Squad play with the borders of fiction and reality, of their private and the public roles, and of kitsch and art." Hamburger Abendblatt "Gob Squad create improvised accidents and calculated incidents with cool fun... their club-mix of interactive film and parodied reality-soap playing ironically with the notions of media-frenzy and voyeurism." Ballet International SUPER NIGHT SHOT "Audiences were crying with glee" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer "One of the top ten shows of the year“ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung "The performance journeys into the noisy surroundings, and what you happily applaud in the theatre as charming art, a tourist with his own camera would stick in his album as an authentic Berlin experience“ Frankfurter Rundschau "In their war on anonymity, Gob Squad have won the battle“ Berliner Zeitung "Part real-life documentary, part statement on modern society, hilarious, beautiful and saddening, Gob Squad are as modern and real as you can get. All those crazy, out-of-the-box thoughts you’ve had, they meet them head on. For every deep-thinking, quirky misfit, these are your comrades, unafraid to challenge the absurdity of the world and to seem absurd themselves.“ Ely Standard "Fragile and beautiful" Libération "The courage of the four performers, their skillful improvisation, their repertoire, mixed with faultless preparation produces a spectacle of breathtaking tension" Le Temps |