News from Beyond

Cut off from the world beyond the theater space, it testifies to a kind of 21st century spirit conjuration that tries to give shape to the messages and voices from outside the space. Gob Squad act as media that wander between worlds to establish connections to the other side. In the process, leftovers on the side of the road become just as important as changes in temperature and weather, and encounters with things, animals and plants provide answers to open questions just as much as those with passers-by and neighbors.

Little by little, incoming messages condense into a collage of sounds, filling the initially deserted stage and developing a life of their own there. Eventually, individual things and people emerge from the fog and their presence makes the worlds seem more permeable. 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 people and to ask ourselves what we want to connect them with. What voices do they follow? And can they exorcise the ghosts of the present to imagine a reconnected future?

Duration: approx. 90 minutes