Gob Squad demand a revolution. Now. The first steps have been taken. The theatre has been storme d and is now the revolutionaries HQ. Access to props and therefore weapons, explosives and special effects has been secured. The box office has been occupied. All without bloodshed so far...

 

Gob Squad aims to electrify the people by any means necessary, and we have all the means of a large scale production at our disposal. Equipped with cameras, live links, big screens, wireless transmitters and long, long cables we’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 write ourselves into history. Succeed or fail, the cameras keep rolling. We might lose the plot, we might have to rethink and recast, we might hopelessly disagree as to our ultimate goals. In the search for clarity we are faced with the same questions. Whose side are we on? What do we want and how far are we prepared to go?

 

Revolution Now! is a Gob Squad production, co-produced by donaufestival Niederoesterreich, Schauspiel Koeln and Volksbuehne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin. With financial support from Berliner Kulturverwaltung.