In this piece examining friendship, four Navigators tell of self-imposed forced relationships and amicable conspiracies.
What happens when individuals who are striving for a common cause involuntarily fall foul of one another? Does friendship depend upon a common purpose, and what happens when there is nothing more left to do? What rules of the game are appropriate to what purpose?
Is it hypocritical to be friendly without love? Is one better off with an intelligent enemy than with a stupid friend? Who do we remember at the end of the day? In a dialogue with violin and keyboard they unremittingly seek to awaken and keep alive the interests of others. Brought into the discourse are definitions and concepts of friendship straddling all epochs through to the globalised 21 st century.
Entertaining and poetic. The crowd was very pleased…. Two men plunge enthusiastically onto the stage. One on his stomach on a board on rollers [skateboard? The hand that brings them together in common action, forms their relationship, is all of a sudden deliberately withdrawn, and the man on rollers crashes to the floor. This wordless image, the emphasis on movement, indicate from the first what the new work from the independent company Nico and the Navigators is all about, namely the issues of self-representation and a quest for connection - ever new associative scenarios are presented and played out.
As always we become no linear storytelling from this troupe grounded in the visual arts, but a freewheeling theatre of pictures in motion composed of artistry, music, few words, and some deeper significance. A playground for friendship and enmity Four actors and two dual-purpose accompanying musicians demonstrate how people can represent themselves as they pose and position themselves relative to one another, and how in doing so always observe both themselves and the other.
