Gob Squad on Center Stage

Simon Will and Sharon Smith of Gob Squad stopped by Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about the West Coast premiere of Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good). The acclaimed multimedia collective of ingenious artists from the U.K. and Germany playfully deploys an inventive arsenal of live video and performance techniques to celebrate the culture-bending heyday of Andy Warhol’s Factory. Honored with a 2012 Drama Desk award for Unique Theatrical Experience after a successful remount in January at The Public Theater in New York, Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good) makes its Los Angeles debut with performances held Thursday, September 20 through Sunday, September 23, 2012.

Utilizing Andy Warhol’s films as their starting point, Gob Squad set themselves the task of reconstructing live versions of Warhol films, including the 1965 Edie Sedgwick vehicle Kitchen. Acting out scenes on bare-bones sets, viewed by the audience as black-and-white projections, the shrewdly crafted and frequently hilarious live recreations are spliced with other Warhol celluloid adventures to evoke an elusive, mythic time and place—its hedonistic experimentalism and its wave of social change.

Center Stage with Mark Gordon airs Tuesdays at 7PM (PST) on KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM and streaming live on the internet at www.kxlu.com

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