Cockiness does pretty good

Berlin's Nico and the Navigators celebrated in Nuremberg The visitor to Nuremberg's Tafelhalle, who has caught the right luminous dot in the colorful shimmering monthly program, is caught in a philosophical holding pattern - and feels at home there: Nico and the Navigators, a theater group that was formed nine years ago and has blossomed in the cultural hothouse effect of the trendy capital of Berlin without the constraints of a particular genre, lured audiences into a scenic overkill with "Cain, If & But." Part of their mockingly named "Menschenbilder" series, which has remained refreshingly unpredictable, both painted and blotted. The other day at the figure theater festival in Erlangen with "HELden und KleinMUT" it was slack, now at the Nuremberg excursion with the question of private decision-making sovereignty ravishing. How is that actually with the connection of voice and determination? Can one decide not to remember? And was there someone sitting in the tree or just eating chips? Behaviorally, seven people are sent into crazy positional games, fouled with standard situations and challenged to react. This goes over bendy eye contacts, stomping dance interludes, stuttering body language or a cold pour of words. The mating conversation runs aground in a scornful singsong, the invective attack from popular sentiment analysis and current news is something like Jung-Handke spiced up with Kurt Krömer. One blows up little sayings and lets them burst, and when the rams dance to the zodiac show, disorientation as a life plan is very close. A wittily marked out performance route of the irritations with occasional side step into the Varieté. Even then - where else does finished theater offer a scene encore - extraordinary. Long applause, which attracted "Navigators" - boss Nicola Hümpel on stage.

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