GOB SQUAD

German-British Performing Arts Collective based in Berlin.

The current line-up is Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost and Simon Will.

24/09/2025

*Premiere 25.09.2025*

TURN is an invitation to dance in dark times. In collaboration with composer Ethan Braun and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Gob Squad transform the Kasino of Burgtheater into an unconventional ballroom in which the spinning movement of the waltz becomes a search for an alternative society. Each change of seat promises new connections and a possibility to imagine different forms of community. Side conversations and chaos are expressly encouraged. Let the tables turn!

Relaxed dress code: Denim.

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Concept: Gob Squad

Composition, Musical Direction and Piano: Ethan Braun

Devised and performed by: Gob Squad – Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will

Music and Performance: Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop – Mia Bodet, Yodfat Miron, Sophie Notte

Sounddesign: Julio Zúñiga

Videodesign: Miles Chalcraft

Set Design: Gob Squad, Albertine Mietusch

Costumes: Ingken Benesch, Sarah Thom

Lighting Design and Technical Management: Chris Umney

Dramaturgy: Christina Runge, Johanna Höhmann

Production: Christina Runge

Directing Assistant: Mica Heilmann

Dramaturgy Assistant: Leonie Jenning

Costume Assistant: Djuna Reiner

Intern: Erik Forsström, student from Stockholm University of the Arts

Company Management Team: Heleen De Boever, Caroline Gentz, Talea Schuré, Grischa Schwiegk
With special thanks to Franz Fillafer, Lisa Hochrainer and the workshops employees of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz: Marén Kutschick, Katrin Nowak, Gritt Mrozowski, Manja Koch, Cordula Parthier, Claudia Stritt, Ernst Ausserer, Valentina Gubser, Frank Backmeister, Lucie Erdmann, R

A new production/ world premiere by Gob Squad in co-production with Johann Strauss 2025 Vienna, Burgtheater Vienna, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
With friendly support of theaterhaus berlin.
Gob Squad Arts Collective are funded institutionally by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

16/09/2025

TURN is an invitation to dance in dark times. In collaboration with composer and .kaleidoskop Gob Squad transform the Kasino of Burgtheater into an unconventional ballroom in which the spinning movement of the waltz becomes a search for an alternative society. Each change of seat promises new connections and a possibility to imagine different forms of community. Side conversations and chaos are expressly encouraged.
Let the tables turn!

Relaxed dress code: Denim.

TURN
Premiere 25.09.2025, 20:00
Further dates: 27., 28., 29. & 30.09., 01.10.
Kasino
Ticketlink in bio

TURN
Concept: Gob Squad

Composition, Musical Direction and Piano: Ethan Braun

Devised and performed by: Gob Squad – Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost / , Simon Will /

Music and Performance: Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop – , (Yodfat Miron), (Sophie Notte)

Sounddesign: (Julio Zúñiga)

Videodesign: Miles Chalcraft

Set Design: Gob Squad, .mietusch

Costumes: , Sarah Thom

Lighting Design and Technical Management: Chris Umney

Dramaturgy: Christina Runge, Johanna Höhmann

Production: Christina Runge

Directing Assistant: (Mica Heilmann)

Costume Assistant: Djuna Reiner

Intern: Erik Forsström, student from

Company Management Team: (Heleen De Boever), Caroline Gentz, , Grischa Schwiegk

With special thanks to Franz Fillafer, Lisa Hochrainer, Marén Kutschick, Katrin Nowak,Gritt Mrozowski, Manja Koch, Cordula Parthier, Claudia Stritt, Ernst Ausserer, Valentina Gubser + many others!!

A new production/ world premiere by Gob Squad in co-production with , Burgtheater Vienna, and .wiesbaden

Supported by with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

With friendly support of .berlin

Gob Squad Arts Collective are funded institutionally by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

29/07/2025

Trixie. That fine delicate smile and those twinkling eyes! It was a complete honour to know you and share time on stage with you, you are missed.🖤

12/06/2025

GREEN CULTURE FESTIVAL

Wir sind dabei!
Und freuen uns auf das Green Culture Festival 2025!

Beim 2025 geht’s um mehr als Reden – wir wollen gemeinsam Strukturen verändern.

Im Fokus: Der Handabdruck ✋
Kultur als Hebel für gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
Wo: , Essen
Wann: 12.–13. Juni 2025

Seid ihr auch dabei?

30/05/2025

This is the front door to where I live, isn’t it?
And this is my key?
Is anybody home?
OK, I’m going in…

We're happy to present IS ANYBODY HOME?
31.05.2025, 19:30

IS ANYBODY HOME? is a production of Gob Squad and
photo David Baltzer

27/05/2025

LOOKING FOR TEST AUDIENCE

Hello there!

We are looking for people who would like to join our open rehearsals in which we are trying out fresh ideas and showing our process in its early stages for our new production TURN. If you know us and our work, you won't be surprised that some of these ideas revolve around participative elements - which is where you come into play! Interested? Just fill out this form and we will reach out with further details on when & where exactly you are needed!

PS: If you want to bring a friend, please make them fill out this form too, so we have control about how many people join us in the end.

Thank you from Gob Squad

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qrp3DYJ7HV7RhmPHAedQLrD_D9nKm03lbwdzzJ5B0Tk/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true

photo Christine Fenzl

24/04/2025

Hit the road again - we're very happy and excited to present our recent production NEWS FROM BEYOND for the first time on tour. Tonight and tomorrow at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm! Both evenings are sold out, but maybe you are lucky and get some Restkarten at box office.

And don't miss the 10th anniversary of Bündnis der Produktionshäuser tonight!

NEWS FROM BEYOND
24. & 25.04.2025
20:00

NEWS FROM BEYOND
Performed by Gob Squad and passers-by, Composition and Sound Design: Manuela Schininà, Live Sound Design and Sound Technician: Catalina Fernandez, Set Design: Amina Nouns, Costumes: Emma Cattell, Sarah Thom, Lighting Design: Chris Umney, Lea Schneidermann, Technical Management: Chris Umney, Dramaturgy and Production: Christina Runge, Live-Translation Berlin: PANTHEA – Irina Bondas.
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A production by Gob Squad. In co-productionHAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, FFT Düsseldorf, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main and Kanuti Gildi SAAL.

20/02/2025

**Berlin cannot be cut - redistribution now!
📌 On 22 February, we will take to the streets together - against cutbacks and for solidarity-based financing of our city!
📍Start: 2 pm at the Neptunbrunnen fountain.’

**Call for the cultural block**

Not only culture is being cut, but also social institutions, education and science, as well as the transport transition and climate protection are being hit hard by Berlin's austerity policy. A broad alliance of grassroots initiatives, trade unions, associations and affected institutions and projects is calling for the demonstration Berlin ist . We will not be played off against each other. Only together are we strong!

07/02/2025

Don't miss the next two shows!

News from Beyond
07. & 08.02. - 19:00
HAU Hebbel am Ufer

Fotos Dorothea Tuch

03/02/2025

News from Beyond
5.–8.2., 19:00 / 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗘
HAU1

In our latest production we use our phones to send live voice messages from the urban space into the dark void of the theatre. Cut off from the world beyond, you, the audience witnesses a 21st century seance. A sparse landscape of invisible spirits manifest news and sonic evidence of truths that seem to have disappeared from our daily lives, despite being all around us.

„News from Beyond“ invites us to overcome barriers of time and space and ‘seeing is believing’.
What separates us?
And who or what do we want to connect with?
Which voices do we dare to follow?
And can we exorcise the ghosts of our present to imagine a reconnected future?

„News from Beyond“ is a production by Gob Squad. In co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, FFT Düsseldorf, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main and Kanuti Gildi SAAL Tallinn.

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LeipzigerStr. 54
Berlin
10117

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+49 (0)30 2472 1359

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http://www.gobsquad.com/

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