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| A PERFORMANCE WITH A CREATOR, A MANIPULATOR AND A DANCER 2006 |
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In this theatre performance the brilliant mistake of creating the world is redone with high precision by a chain-smoking car-mechanic, alias the Creator. He lives in a no-mans land and develops his vague ideas and experiments. Is his need to create, nothing but an illusion, his love for animals childish, his distrust of mankind arrogance, and his solitary and withdrawn life weakness? His parrot Rocca wonders how it is possible that mankind has become the ‘great dominator’. Is it a coincidence? The parrot quotes Desmond Morris: “Physically the human
being is an unique primate with a vulnerable unprotected skin -- with
no natural weapons, no armour, no sharp spine, no venom, no fangs or
claws. He is equipped with little more than an enlarged brain. Yet this
compulsively curious creature has come to dominate the natural world.”
“So it is difficult to believe in a god that cares about us and knows of our existence... We are such insignificant creatures on a minor planet of a very average star in the outer suburbs of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies.” Steven Hawking The Parrot: Rocca , a real parrot. 
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CRITIQUES Thomas Hahn in TROTTOIR 11/ 2006 Aus
den Niederlanden kommt Judith Nab, die in diesem Jahr auf Mimos in
Périgueux ihr neues Stück kreierte. Auch sie unterhält eine enge
Beziehung zu Frankreich, was schon der Name ihrer Kompanie bestätigt:
Espace.
So
beunruhigend die Personen und Bilder auch sein mögen, der Papagei und
die Videos bringen auch Leichtigkeit und Humor. «No Talking» ist ein
sehr interessanter Beitrag zur Debatte, wie das Theater von morgen
aussehen soll und wird. Wäre Mimos ein auf die Zukunft orientiertes
Festival, so hätte der Preis dieser Ausgabe nur Nab gehören können.’
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