Gob Squad's BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES Opens Tonight at The Public

The Public Theater presents the American premiere of BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES. This ambitious and poignant show, created by Gob Squad, runs through Sunday, November 29, with an official press opening tonight, October 26.

The complete cast of BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES features Mikai Anthony, Charlotte Beede, Rose Bell-McKinley, Eloise Celine, Meghan Chang, Margalit Duclayan, Keanu Jacobs, Simone Mindolovich, Jasper Newell, Elijah Pluchino, Maeve Press, Matthew Quirk, Miles Sherr-Garcia, and Aja Nicole Webber.

UK and Berlin-based Gob Squad's last show at The Public was an Under the Radar Festival sensation. This season, Gob Squad returns with the ambitious and poignant BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, created over the course of the past two years with 9-14 year olds from around New York City. From behind the safety of one-way mirrors, the audience witnesses seven lives lived in fast forward, from angst-ridden teens to hunched geriatrics. As the children peer into the future and nostalgically back at their recent past, they prepare to leave childhood behind forever. A must-see experience from this internationally acclaimed theater collective. The Belgian version of BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES was produced by CAMPO (Belgium) and premiered in 2011.

BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES features video system design by Gob Squad and Shawn Duan; and performance coaching by Bridget Kelso.

Member tickets are available now, and single tickets, starting at $25, can be accessed by calling (212) 967-7555, www.publictheater.org, or in person at the Taub Box Office at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street. The Library at The Public is open nightly for food and drinks, beginning at 5:30 p.m., and Joe's Pub at The Public continues to offer some of the best music in the city. Continuing The Public's mission to make great theater accessible to all, The Public's First Performance "Free for All" returns; in partnership with TodayTix, New York's premiere theater ticket app, free tickets to the first preview on Saturday, October 17 will be available beginning October 10, via TodayTix mobile lottery.

GOB SQUAD, founded in 1994 and based in Berlin, produces stage shows, video installations, radio plays, interactive live films and urban interventions. Core members are Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost and Simon Will, and the group is managed by Eva Hartmann. Their productions have been shown on every continent except Antarctica, and were first introduced to New York through the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater. Projects such as Super Night Shot (2003), Gob Squad's Kitchen (2007, winner of New York's Drama Desk Award), Saving the World (2008, winner of the Goethe Preis at the Impulse Festival), Before Your Very Eyes (2011, selected for Germany's Theatertreffen) and most recently Western Society (2013) have received wide acclaim. Gobsquad.com

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

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