Western Society
OFF SALE
Sep 17–20, 2014
United States Premiere
Gold stilettos, bucket loads of Ferrero Rocher, the least watched video on YouTube, a million years of human history condensed into 10 minutes. It’s a microcosm of the western world at a dinner table. The last supper of the self-obsessed us. And you, the audience, are invited to the banquet to watch and, some to partake. Gob Squad’s Western Society is a portrait of the world we live in, with the color and sound turned up to 11.
Gob Squad have found a microcosm of our entire civilization in a barely watched three-minute home video of a family karaoke party. Dressed in a look that can only be described as Paris Hilton wannabe meets bling casualty, the performers (with a few oh-so-lucky audience members) undertake a live reenactment of the video, standing in for the strangers on the screen known only as “lady with cake” or “remote control man.”
It’s all part of nothing less than a search for the essence of Western Society, a society where, just as in the YouTube video, everyone seems to be simultaneously together yet alone.
Creative Team
Co-Presented with and Performed at
REDCAT
Devised and Performed By
Gob Squad
OFF SALE
September 17th through the 20th, 2014
Western Society is a CTG production commission, made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with the support of the British Council.