THEATRE GERMANY / UK
WAR AND PEACE
GOB SQUAD
1 hr 45 mins, no interval
Adult $65
Concession $50
Senior $60
Student & Under 30s $35
Transaction fees may apply
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The Coopers Malthouse 03 9685 5111
ARTIST TALK
“Between humour
and poignancy,
between exuberance
and despondence.”
~ THE AGE ON BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES
“Thoroughly
entertaining,
full of irony and
intelligence.”
DER TAGESSPIEGEL ON
~ GOB
SQUAD’S KITCHEN
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
THE COOPERS MALTHOUSE
MERLYN THEATRE
TUE 18 — SUN 30 OCTOBER
TUE 6.30PM / WED — SAT 7.30PM
SUN 5PM
The hottest outfit in Berlin’s performance scene takes
on one of literature’s most famously unread novels,
but this book club might come with a body count.
Notorious theatre renegades Gob Squad make live
video performances that unsettle the lines between
the prepared and the improvised, performer and
bystander, fiction and life. Here they set their sights
on Tolstoy’s gargantuan opus War and Peace, only
to discover that neither war nor peace are coming
without a fight.
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?
Are our peaceful lives themselves a kind of warfare?
TUE 25 OCT, post-show
#melbfest
War and Peace is a production by Gob Squad and Münchner Kammerspiele.
In coproduction with Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Schauspiel
Leipzig, Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival Lublin, Lancaster Arts at Lancaster
University, Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Festival, Gessnerallee Zürich,
Nottingham Playhouse and Teatro Stabile di Torino—National Theatre.
Presented with Malthouse Theatre
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