Director: Sebastian Baumgarten
Musical Director: Ari Benjamin Meyers
Scenic Design: Thilo Reuther
Costumes: Valerie von Stillfried
Text/Dramaturgy: Ralf Fiedler
With: Ingolf Müller-Beck, Effi Rabsilber, Lars Rudolph, Tilo Werner, Juliane Werner, Ari Benjamin Meyers und 24 Trombones
Production: PERFORMART, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, and European Center of the Arts Hellerau
...The name "music-theater" is a misnomer; better would be theater-performance, subtly supported by video and packed with catchwords like God, enlightenment, individuality, the masses. With a rock band providing hard hitting interruptions, as well as a wonderful, velvety brass choir in the background...
wen., Berliner Morgenpost
...the music, that Ari Benjamin Meyers wrote based on Wagner motives for a trombone choir hidden backstage, provided moments of real excitement.
Martin Hatzius, Neues Deutschland
...The trombone choir takes on the role of a virus and tells its own story moving from behind the stage to the front, until all 23 musicians are completely at the edge of the stage and threaten to blow the audience's brains out of their heads. This is the first HAU produced production where one really is sad that it will not be in the permanent repertory.
Eva Behrendt, Theater Heute