Torsten Krug /// director / singer / author

agent in game

by David S Craig

Director: Torsten Krug
Set and costumes: Nanni Marotzke
Dramaturgy: Heide Palmer

Thuringian State Theater in Rudolstadt
Nov 2007

With:
Gregor Wolf (Daniel)
Katharina Voß (Luise, Daniel's mother)
Gabriel Kemmether (Sascha / Doctor)
Nancy Fischer (Melanie / Nurse)

Torsten Krug, the director, has a feeling for topics of this kind. As in "Stones", the troupe is brimming with ideas and the actors romp furiously across the stage. Here, life crises are not primarily talked about, here young actors, with their eruptively vital body language, happily tell of how three loners who are so strange to each other become a resilient community.
A stable group, which eventually also helps the young Luise, Dani's mother, to face her own precarious life situation. An episode, rather marginal, that Katharina Voß writes with touching delicacy in the memory of the attentive viewer as an acting delicacy.
Nobody is the loser here.

Erika Stephan, Thuringian General
Big theater for little ones in the Rudolstadt tumult

Sascha's father makes jungle noises, which makes Sascha a little ashamed of him. Dani, the new boy next door who is on a secret mission as an agent, wants to get to the bottom of the matter. 'He doesn't like children', Sascha gives him as a warning, whereupon a sixth-grader from the audience remarks: 'Neel 'n Kechel!
The scene is touching and symptomatic at the same time, as it shows how the students (...) accepted the game agreement. Gabriel Kemmether (Sascha) and Gregor Wolf (Dani), who are referred to as 'Kegel' by a twelve-year-old, are both in their mid-thirties. But they play the boys so perfectly that they are accepted as peers. (...)
The production that Torsten Krug and Nanni Marotzke brought to the stage at the small "Theater Tumult" is a wonderful piece of theater with excellent actors. The sixth graders (...) were not bored for a second, and the few adults at the premiere (...) also had a lot of fun.
The play by Canadian David S. Craig is suitable for both school classes and family visits. But dads should be careful. Anyone who gets involved in the game must expect a tear to fall through his buttonhole. In front of everyone.

Thomas Spanier, East Thuringian Newspaper
Torsten Krug stages fast and without social kitsch, underlines the childish distance to reality with unreal and fantastic moments. So - much to the delight of the young, attentive audience - Sascha's father only appears as a roaring dinosaur or Dani and his buddy play accurate football with an invisible ball.
The production is mainly carried out by the talented young actors, who move convincingly from comedy to tragedy, from strength to weakness, from reality to fantasy and, moreover, feel perfectly at home on the stage, which is only designed with moving boxes (equipment: Nanni Marotzke). seem to feel.

Stefanie Grießbach, Ostthüringer Zeitung
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