Production still for previous production of "War and Peace'. Photographer: David Baltzer
War and Peace
By Gob Squad
18 October 2016 – 30 October 2016 Merlyn Theatre
based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Malthouse Theatre, Gob Squad, Melbourne Festival,
Devised Theatre Co-Production
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?
One man’s feast is another man’s famine, and this is a feast of contradictions.
"GOB SQUAD SKIP FEARLESSLY ALONG THE THIN LINE BETWEEN FICTION AND REALITY, FILM AND LIVE ACTION LIKE RECKLESS TIGHTROPE WALKERS"
— The Guardian
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Administrator, Theatre Manager, Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary
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Acknowledgements
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.