Unlucky people practice life

In his hands he holds brochures labeled "Strategies for a life without death and dying. I beg your pardon? It looks as if Christoph Glaubacker is holding out this maximum life insurance policy to the world as a promise. But actually he clings to his brochures like a last hope. In "HELDEN & KleinMUT" by "Nico und the Navigators", comic misfortunes and strange clumsiness once again haunt the stage: stubborn, tender, angry, melancholic, defiant, mean, clumsy - and mostly fragile like life itself. Instead of living, they practice survival. Nicola Hümpel (direction) and Peter Meier (lighting) immerse the cool stage of clear forms (Oliver Proske) in charming light and soft sounds. But beneath the beautiful surface lurks fear. And fear speaks many languages and has many faces: envy, meanness, anger, procrastination - to name just a few. But where fear is the only hero, Hümpel demonstrates, people become extras in their own lives, navigating their way through a world of blocked possibilities. Fear is a poor advisor. With a wonderful sense of slowness and states of excitement, "Nico and the Navigators" strings together moments of hope and failure in small scenes, showing heroes as quirky as the skew called life in which they move. If courage were for sale, they would certainly have plenty of it in the bags and suitcases they drag behind them. Nevertheless, a magic lies over all things. Because "Nico and the Navigators" take a lovingly ironic look at life.

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