Strange things taking place behind closed doors....

Gob Squad are gearing up for the first performance of Room Service tonight, Wednesday, starting at 7pm. You will be invited to help Bastian, Berit, Simon and Sarah make it through the night as they sit alone in their hotel bedrooms with only the minibar and their own desperate inventiveness for company. With Wynn's Hotel the backdrop for the half-marathon performance they will run the gamut of emotions from A to B, at least. Connected via a phone line to the conference room where the audience watches the drama unfold they may make an occasional bid for contact with the outside word but as Leo Sayer knows "A telephone can't take the place of your smile."

Fawlty Towers meets Big Brother?

Probably not, but I thought that might get your attention. Now that Cargo Sofia is firing on all cylinders I'm looking forward to the Gob Squad show next week. Room Service is another smart and accessible piece from the Anglo-German group, last with us in 2006, and will be performed at the inimitable Wynn's Hotel, just off O'Connell Street, on Wednesday and Thursday next, 9 & 10 May.


On their previous visit Gob Squad presented Super Night Shot a four channel digital film which they shot in on the streets of Dublin in a single take in January of last year. The Irish Times described Super Night Shot as "riveting viewing... like a no-budget mesh of 24 and the title sequence of Dallas."

Room Service lasts for five hours from 7pm and you can come and go as you please, although it's advisable to be there for the first hour as that's when you get a handle on the setup for the show. You watch Room Service on four large monitors in the function room of Wynn's and can nip in and out of the bar next door as you please.