Press reviews

“The widened gaze…The onion, skinned, exposes a shaken core…But that’s what they want: to be caught in their deeply private communications…None of this happens by accident. It serves to widen one’s gaze in the mirror and at the outside world. Not the worst condition for continuing to make such extraordinary musical theater.”

“…in its own characteristic handwriting of improvisation, eloquent body language, strong images … a multi-faceted, also self-ironic examination of its own artistic history and at the same time one about time … The long-lasting applause is interspersed with many bravos. The entry into at least the next 20 years could not be more successful.”

“Courage for the I … Some of the images are almost painfully intense, often tragic and comic at the same time … Without fear of big feelings, with a little irony. Even if youth jargon is frowned upon – here one should be allowed to use it: Awesome theater!”

“That is what is really enchanting about this production, that it revels in memories and at the same time makes remembering itself its theme. The relationship to the past, to one’s own family history and to one’s artistic career … It is a quiet, tender anniversary evening, thoughtful and open …”

“A moment of happiness arises from a defeat … pictorial, dadaistic, dreamy … The play with sense and nonsense distinguishes the multiple award-winning troupe.”

With the loosely melancholic anniversary show “Yesterday’s Future,” the Nico-and-the-Navigators ensemble celebrates itself. For 20 years, the troupe has belonged to the post-dramatic off-theater scene that is shaping the current political change at municipal theaters.