Revolution Now!
A real uprising staged for the cameras
Incidentally the revolution will be televised
With one head for business and another for good looks
Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher’s hooks.
- Elvis Costello
Everybody knows... it’s time for a revolution. Gob Squad are calling for that revolution. Now. The first steps have been taken. A theatre has been stormed and is now the revolutionaries HQ. Access to props and therefore weapons, explosives and special effects have been secured. The box office has been occupied. All without bloodshed so far...
With all the technological powers they can get their hands on and a charm offensive that uses cups of tea, cake and electric guitars, Gob Squad will reach out to the masses and incite them to revolt. Equipped with cameras, live links, big screens, wireless transmitters and long, long cables they’ll be broadcasting the revolution out into the world. This revolution will be televised. Live.
Gob Squad dust off revolutions past from the archives of history and place them back in the present, right in the middle of our contemporary society. With the help of the audience as well as passers-by, revolutionary moments are re-enacted in an attempt to make history. Before the sun rises on a brand new day, power will be redistributed and justice will prevail.
premiere 4th February 2010 at Volksbühne-am-Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Belin/ Germany
media partner tip Berlin
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photo by Manuel Reinartz