“Nico and the Navigators” found happiness in Bregenz

"Wo du nicht bist" premiered successfully at festival Bregenz (APA) - The Berlin theater group "Nico and the Navigators" sought - and found - happiness in Bregenz last Friday evening. In the ambitious festival series "Kunst aus der Zeit" (KAZ), the world premiere of the play "Wo du nicht bist" successfully passed over the workshop stage of the Festspielhaus. The audience signaled full approval and gave the Berlin troupe and the East Tyrolean ensemble "Franui" enthusiastic applause - not least a vital ingredient for the experience of happiness of actors and musicians. The Festival's co-production with "Nico and the Navigators" will be repeated this Saturday evening. The next world premiere on the Bregenz Werkstattbühne will be "Radek," the new opera by Richard Dünser, with Georg Nigl in the title role, on August 12. "Wo du nicht bist" (directed by Nicola Hümpel) defies any genre characterization, questions the scientific view of the world and deals with ideas and definitions of happiness in different cultures. It questions whether and to what extent cultural origins and current surroundings influence personal happiness. Elements of acting, dancing and singing are combined to form a whole. In the scenic miniatures of the music and picture theater project, the eight members of "Nico and the Navigators" provide no recipes, but food for thought. "Where you are not" does not tempt the viewer to take a voyeuristic look, but to think about happiness, and thus about life as a whole. The Bregenz premiere was developed in Innsbruck and at the Sophiensälen in Berlin, the home of "Nico and the Navigators". The reduced stage design (Oliver Poske) was also created in Berlin. The music for the scene, inspired by Schubert, was contributed by Andreas Schett and the Tyrolean formation "Franui," with instrumentation ranging from violin to zither and dulcimer to saxophone and tuba. "Dort, wo du nicht bist, dort ist das Glück" - with this sentence ends one of the most famous Schubert songs, "Der Wanderer", Schett reminds of the musical starting point.

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