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Before your very eyes

Gob Squad & CAMPO

Dates

Prices

5 — 28 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday-Sunday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

15, 18, 28 €
Concs 10, 12, 15 € | Unemployed 5 €
Special offer: Adult + Teenager 18 € + 7 €

Age guidance

The age guidance for this production is 12+. Children & teenagers must be accompanied by their parents.

Seven lives being lived in fast forward in this unique production which unsettles and moves audiences wherever it is performed.

Photo: Phile Deprez

What would Big Brother be like if it were directed by Andy Warhol? Probably something very like “Before Your Very Eyes”: a group of children and adolescents shut up in a glass room straddling time and peering into their past and future, envisioning their own deaths.

Seven children ‘growing up’ before our astonished eyes—ours and theirs; seven lives being lived in fast forward in this unique production from the avant-garde group Gob Squad and the arts center CAMPO which unsettles and moves audiences wherever it is performed.

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Gob Squad first met the children in early 2009. The texts were developed during improvisation and in collaboration with the performers, with some passages adapted from Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives" and Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche New York".

Parallel Event

After performance talk between the audience and the children-protagonists

9 November 2013
Main Stage

Credits

  • Concept, Design & Direction

    Gob Squad (Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost & Simon Will)

  • Developed with

    Martha Balthazar, Maurice Belpaire, Spencer Bogaert, Zoë Breda, Faustijn De Ruyck, Ramses De Ruyck, Fons Dhossche, Tasja Doom, Gust Hamerlinck, Robbe Langeraert, Zoë Luca, Jeanne Vandekerckhove, Aiko Vanparys & Ineke Verhaegen

  • Performers

    Maurice Belpaire, Zoë Breda, Ramses De Ruyck, Fons Dhossche, Tasja Doom, Robbe Langeraert & Aiko Vanparys

  • Voice Over

    Rigley Riley

  • Performance Coach

    Pascale Petralia

  • Sound Design

    Sebastian Bark, Jeff McGrory & Gob Squad

  • Costumes

    An Breughelmans & Gob Squad

  • Technical

    Korneel Coessens & Bart Huybrechts

  • Set Construction

    Atento

  • Camera

    Philippe Digneffe, Pol Heyvaert & Gob Squad

  • Video Post-Production

    Miles Chalcraft, Korneel Coessens, Sarah Michelle Harrison, Anna Zett & Gob Squad

  • Childcare

    Merel Van Den Steen

  • Tour Management

    Leen De Broe & Mat Hand

  • Artistic Co-Ordination

    Nele De Sloover

  • Production Management

    Wim Clapdorp & Christina Runge

  • Administrators

    Carl Gydé & Eva Hartmann

  • Produced by

    CAMPO, Ghent (BE) & Gob Squad (DE)

  • Coproduced By

    Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, FFT Düsseldorf, Noorderzon/Grand Theatre Groningen, NEXT Festival, Eurometropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai + Valenciennes, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève (CH)

  • "Before Your Very Eyes" by Gob Squad & CAMPO was nominated and presented at

    the Theatertreffen Berlin 2012

  • Gob Squad is funded by

    the Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin – Senatskanzlei Kulturelle Angelegenheiten

  • Premiere

    April 2011, Berlin

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