Puppet Theater Festival: Heart, Pain and Wicked Fun

ERLANGEN - Four people vie for each other's favor. Sometimes tender, sometimes aggressive. "Although I know you" - the title of the new play by Nico and the Navigators in Erlangen hints at how complicated togetherness can be. "A likes B, but B doesn't want to know anything about it. Maybe A should have gone away with D after all." On a simple but variable stage, a quartet accompanied by two musicians deals with interpersonal problems sometimes with poetic images, sometimes eloquently. The texts are taken from correspondence between the pairs of friends Schiller and Goethe, Wagner and Nietzsche, Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. Sometimes, however, there is also wonderful improvisation, for example when the struggle to find the right words is portrayed. Finally, the multilingual team almost ends up in poltesque cabaret. Despite the zapping between the forms of presentation, however, this entertaining, fast-paced piece is miles away from being arbitrary! ...Closed enthusiasm prevails after the performance of "Nico & the Navigators". In the Redoutensaal there is a lot of applause for this tempo- and image-rich piece...

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