Laboratory
- a children's performance

[Laboratorium by Najo Team]
© Najo.

The framework for Najo Team's Laboratory is a poetic play with objects, light, colours, chemical and physical processes and electronic sound. We have included elements that we are fascinated or are obsessed by: the beauty of the laboratory, the magic act and the heavy theatre curtains, in a fantasy where objects meet each other in appalling combinations, a secular alchemy that makes magic with inspiration.

A specially built transparent table full of paraphernalia that remind of laboratory equipment. It's bubbling and smoking. A person is mixing concentrated powder and liquids in different colours in an experiment that we don't know what it is about. Under the table a curtain of red velvet is hanging. Suddenly it opens and two arms dressed in white stick out. They push out a large round cage covered with a thin blue cloth. When it's uncovered, you see the contents in the cage...