GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN

The exhibition Andy Warhol: Vanitas, featuring more than 100 works from the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, is on display at SCHUNCK from 15 September. Around the opening, PLT in collaboration with SCHUNCK and Cultura Nova is showing Gob Squad's Kitchen, based on Andy Warhol's film Kitchen.

Experimental and thrilling

In this performance at the intersection of theatre, art and film, the German/British company Gob Squad travels back to the underground culture in New York of 1965 to reconstruct Warhol's Kitchen live. Since none of the actors have seen the film themselves, they need the audience to fill out the performance. Not that much happens in the original film, by the way. The actors hang out in a kitchen and talk about sex, drugs and wild parties. Nothing actually happens. Yet Warhol's Kitchen perfectly sums up the experimental energy of the swinging 60s.  

Modern life, pop music, stars, feminism, the era of free sex and drugs; it's all in the air. Or as Edie Sedgwick, one of the film's stars, says: "I'm living my role too - only I can't figure out what my role is in this film."

Winner of the Silver Lion 2024

Gob Squad is an international art collective that creates performances at the intersection of theatre, art and media. Their productions have been shown on all continents (except Antarctica). GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN (2007) won New York's Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience in 2012. The group was this year awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale 2024.  

This production will be performed in English.

Credits 

Concept: Gob Squad 
Devised and performed four of: Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will, Sharon Smith, Nina Tecklenburg, Laura Tonke, Erik Pold 
Video: Miles Chalcraft 
Sound design: Jeff McGrory, Jeffrey Fisher 
Stage design: Gob Squad and Chasper Bertschinger 
Production manager/Dramaturgy: Christina Runge 
UK producer: Ayla Suveren 
Artistic assistants: Tina Pfurr, Sophia Simitzis 

This performance can be seen at Parkstad Limburg Theater (PLT) in Heerlen. Tickets are offered through PLT.