DNN, Tomas Petzold, 6.12.2010

“ Lies as a substitute for drugs - ‘The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof’ as an excellent chamber play in the Kleines Haus”

Sabine Auf der Heyde (...) naturally does not expect the shock effect of the past. Her gaze is distanced and analytical, but she has a keen sense for punchlines and the ambiguity of situations, and not least because of this she brings the struggle to resolve the conflict up to the level of her time and generation. (...) A chamber play drawn with strong and yet sensitive lines, which received the appropriate applause - the actors' theater is not dying out."

Sächsische Zeitung, Rainer Kasselt, 6.12.2010

” (...) The drama is set in the 1950s in the southern states of the USA. Director Sabine Auf der Heyde also places it there aesthetically. She shows the family as a hamlet of lies and a hellish place of longing. The performance gains tension as the conflicts erupt. At the center of the evening is the fierce confrontation between Big Daddy and his darling Brick. They give each other nothing and throw painful truths at each other. Albrecht Goette is outstanding as Big Daddy, a man of power who tolerates no contradiction, brutal towards his wife, lustful in his old age. And happy as a child, mistakenly believing that he has cheated death. Matthias Reichwald plays Brick: extinguished, barely rebellious, seeking silence. A strong performance."