Exaggerated pantomime

The leadership of the Teatro Central deserves the thanks of art lovers who want to see the latest experimental productions of the most advanced European theater, because it has brought to its stage the Berlin ensemble Nico and the Navigators. This play, in fact, under the title Eggs on Earth, incomprehensible to me, surpasses the curiosity of the most curious, since it deals with the inner turmoil, struggle, disappointment, grief and defenselessness of the worker in the current Western world, from the highest employee to the humblest office worker. And it expresses this inhuman and antisocial lifelessness pantomimically. Immortal classics of music history in the background support the whole. The exercise takes place from a total immobility of the actors, to then realize silent play and gestures as subtle as rich and rounded expression. All this happens at a slow pace, a vehement "pianissimo" that depresses the spectator and infects him with the inner turmoil from which the fictional characters suffer. Visual theater The promising Nicola Hümpel, from whom we expect more convincing glimpses of life, sees in this piece more theatrical dance than dance theater, since the choreography - authentic choreography - through which the movement of the performers on stage is set in motion, includes sketches and "ticks" of various tendencies of modern dance. But it nevertheless approaches more to the theater, since it pays particular attention to expression through gestures, through which symbolism can be undeniably seen in the faces of the actors. Silent orchestra Each performer is like an instrument in this silent orchestra; an instrument exceptionally well tuned to the euphony of the whole orchestra. It flaunts exemplary - why not - German discipline and artistic adaptation to create, with outrageously dreamlike and surreal aesthetics, a performance as distressing as it is stimulating, in which the cast displays excellent physical and acting training.

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