CAMEL GOSSIP III
In this dreamlike world, distractions and transformations are far more real than continuity and stability. “You mean there isn’t a story?” my daughter asked incredulously before the show began. “It’s just people spitting water?” Well, yes and no. There is a story of sorts, but the characters split in two, appear and disappear, die and then revive.
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Camel Gossip III seems to reflect the circumstances behind the mounting of the show–Dogtroep tailors its pieces to the sites at which they’re performed. But the Navy Pier Skyline Stage wasn’t completed when it was supposed to be, before Dogtroep came to town a month ago, and so the company was laboring side by side with real construction workers–competing with them in a way, because the relationship was reportedly contentious. In that sense Camel Gossip III is perfectly suited to the site. But the show seems to continue a vendetta, to give Dogtroep the last word in an argument in which we have no stake.
