Torsten Krug /// director / singer / author

The title is simple and abstract, but the potential behind it reveals itself with the first chord from the electric bass. Thorsten zum Felde (musical director) agrees to Robbie Williams' hymn "Let me entertain you" (...). The audience is electrified. (...) Once again, the ensemble wanders beyond the Shakespearean path - and devotes itself to music. A genre in which the performers visibly feel at home, so that the lustful acting alone is worth a look at the stage, which is reminiscent of a backstage area with its roll containers and cloakroom rail (stage: Heike Neugebauer).

"Rage and Cradle" doesn't deliver a story in the true sense. Nevertheless, the musical theater evening is anything but a random sequence. The six actors let themselves be driven by the music, small scenes appear out of nowhere and dissolve into one another. The big, broad bracket is the theme of revolution, sung about for centuries. Queen, U2, the Beatles, Marius Müller-Westernhagen or even Giacomo Puccini provide the stuff for dreaming and rebelling. The supposed bourgeois in a suit boldly pulls on the Che shirt, the choir rehearsal gets out of joint and the folk song about the cuckoo gives cause for rebellion, dreams of the high mast are sung about and in the end it all comes together in a big, rhythmic show with Queen's classic "The show must go on".

Director Torsten Krug, Thorsten zum Felde and the ensemble (...) managed to create a light-footed, humorous evening. In compact 90 minutes, the six actors travel across the history of music - and reveal an amazing musical potential. (...) The performers of the shakespeare company not only know how to impress as actors, but also as singers and musicians. A musical frenzy is created with children's percussion, guitar, accordion, saw and mouth piano. Or is it a secret call to revolution?