[5] The play takes place on a boat centering around an insurance companies party, which turns into a game show highlighting the blatant absurdity of much waged work.
[6] A pair of rats comment, interrupt as well as seem to orchestrate the turn of events, while taking on the role of narrators in a brechtian style.
This leaves the audience with a sense of disarmament and ruin, creating a new space of possibility for something else to fill that void of thought.
"[9] The theater critic Ingegärd Waaranperä called the play "A thriller-comedy about works demeaning and characteristic elements.
"[10] The chief dramaturge Bochow of Die Staatstheater Stuttgart considered "the insurance employees [to] stand for a psychogram of an entire society.