Geoff Sobelle: HOME

Tickets from $10–$35. See details below.

HOME is a large-scale performance project that revolves around the life cycle of a house. Created through a mix of illusion, choreography, construction, and live documentary, Geoff Sobelle’s work illuminates how the messiness of life transforms a house into a home.  
 
HOME awakens audiences to the current housing landscape. The universal and timely themes of gentrification and migration are rendered in the choreography of ordinary people inhabiting and leaving a structure.

“…HOME adds up to a wholly unique blend of concept, stagecraft, movement, music, and visual storytelling that gives fast-moving form to the ways, large and small, in which a house becomes a home.” 

The Boston Globe

TICKETS

Tickets available for $20–$35. $10 UNC-Chapel Hill student tickets available with valid UNC One Card. Additional discounts available. Visit our FAQ page for details.

Save 20% on our four-performance theater package:  

• Geoff Sobelle: HOME | Feb. 4, 2023 
• Tao of Glass | March 24–25, 2023 
• Big Dance Theater: The Road Awaits Us + Cage Shuffle: a Duet | April 6, 2023 
• Osvaldo Golijov’s Falling Out of Time | April 20, 2023 

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EVENT DETAILS

• Program: We’re excited to offer a robust digital program book for this event. To access this resource, click here. This program can also be accessed via QR codes on event signage.
• Runtime: 110 minutes
• Content warning: This production will include brief nudity
• Additional information: Visit our FAQ page

PRE-PERFORMANCE EVENT: BUILDING HOME / HOME BUILDING

When: Saturday, February 4, 2023, 7–7:50 PM

Where: Gerrard Hall

Join us for Performance Notes Live with Jennifer Player, President & CEO at Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, Starshea Taylor, a new Habitat homeowner, and Stefanie Sobelle, Associate Professor of United States literature and culture at Gettysburg College and dramaturg for HOME, for a presentation and conversation on the differences between house and home, and the narratives we tell, write, and perform about domestic life.

Get a peek into the show, and into what it means to go home to a house in Chapel Hill.

Jennifer Player is a housing rights advocate who is leading the largest capital campaign in Habitat’s history as the affiliate works towards the creation of Weavers Grove, a large-scale, innovative, mixed income neighborhood. www.weaversgrove.org; www.orangehabitat.org

Starshea Taylor is a mom with two teenage daughters. She works in the Lenoir Dining Hall at UNC Chapel Hill as a supervisor. Originally from New Jersey, Starshea has enjoyed living in this area for the past 10 years. Starshea recently moved into her new Habitat home in downtown Carrboro.

Stefanie Sobelle is a scholar whose work focuses on narratives of space and place. She is the author of A Building is a Book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and the co-creator of Decameron Row (https://www.decameronrow.com), the founding project of her digital design studio Imaginary Places.

CREDITS

HOME was commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Arizona State University – Gammage, New Zealand Festival, Beth Morrison Projects and the Edinburgh International Festival. HOME was funded, in part, by The Wyncote Foundation, Adam & Diane Max, Garth Patil, Wendy vanden Heuvel and Jeanne Donovan Fisher and received developmental support from LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly ADI). Residency support has been provided by MANA Contemporary, BRIC, Pennsylvania State University and ArtsEmerson. HOME received support from the New York Theatre Workshop annual Usual Suspects summer residency at Dartmouth College. 

SPECIAL THANKS 

Adam Blumenthal, Andrew Simonet, Bard College, Catch Series (Jeff, Caleb, Andrew), Church of the Millennials (Abby Adler, Antonio Irizarry, Kedian Keohan, Reeves Morris-Stan, Ethan Rogers, Daisy Rosato, Dana Savage), David Brick, Daniel Soule, Edward & Lynn Dolnick, Gideon Lester, Jeff Larson, Jeremy Lydic, Jim Findlay, Jim Weiner, John & Nancy Cassidy, Jonathan Zencheck, Josh Higgason, Justin Cox, Katerina Barry, Kele McComsky, Kevin Hanley, Linda Brumbach, Mitchell Robe, Orlando Pabatoy, Stephen Smith, Toby Leaman, Travis DeCastro, Trey Lyford, Victoria Finney, Victoria Burge, Wolfgang Hoffman, Daisy Sanders, Emma Plotkin, Ysa Pinyol, and Sean Daniels. 

ABOUT GEOFF SOBELLE

Geoff Sobelle (Creator/Performer) is a US-based actor and creator devoted to making original actor-driven performance works.  His shows include: HOME, The Object Lesson, The Elephant Room, all wear bowlers and machines machines machines machines machines machines machines (among others).

“…mind-boggling humorous magic is dispensed throughout…Actor, creator, magician and illusionist, Geoff Sobelle performs miracles.” 

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