Please note: This performance contains the use of strobe lights and haze. 

Gob Squad, UK and Berlin’s outlandish theater renegades, sold out NYU Skirball and played to rave reviews in 2015!

They’re back and have set their sights on Tolstoy’s opus War and Peace, only to discover that neither war nor peace are coming without a fight. The setting is a literary salon, where audience members join the cast in a live theater/video performance in which art and daily life, history and the present, reality and fiction blur. In this American premiere, a never-ending parade of characters dance, dine and duel while performers prepare for scenes as if going into battle, all in order to reframe Tolstoy’s central inquiry: Can we live a moral life in an imperfect world?

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Gob Squad, Berlin’s notorious and challenging arts collective, make live video performances that unsettle the lines between the prepared and the improvised, performer and bystander, fiction and life. Gob Squad has been devising, directing and performing together since 1994, motivated by a desire to elevate the everyday and empower audience members to step beyond their traditional role as passive spectators. 
 
www.gobsquad.com 

Purchase a ticket to Gob Squad’s War and PeaceTeatro La Re-Sentida’s La Dictadura de lo Cool for $50. Discount will automatically be applied once seats are added to the cart.

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Gob Squad "War and Peace"
Gob Squad "War and Peace"
Gob Squad "War and Peace"
Gob Squad "War and Peace"
Gob Squad "War and Peace"
Gob Squad "War and Peace"
War and Peace

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Study Guide: War & Coolness

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Brandon Woolf on Gob Squad

Gob Squad does not shy away from the big themes or the penetrating questions.

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