Scientists have written more texts about no living being than about this small species found almost everywhere in the world: the child. But how does it behave? How should we meet him and what is the much vaunted peculiarity of this being? We have asked various experts on children. From doctors to various pedagogues to clowns.
The result is a many-voiced smorgasbord of knowledgeable adult opinions. The nature of children now leaves this kaleidoscope of expert reports to the scrutiny of those whom it most concerns and who are themselves experts in imitation and appropriation: eight children commit a feast of imitation in a revue of numbers. A ritual in which the children become ruminants of expert opinion, imitators of their pre-images, building a glittering hall of mirrors from the fragments of the adult matrix. The Nature of Children is children's theatre for adults, a performative study of and to children's 'own' and an attempt to explore boundaries between being a child and being an adult in the process.
Production assistance: Ines Wuttke
By and with eight children from Frankfurt
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