WENDY KNOX STAGES THE CRADLE WILL ROCK at FRANK THEATRE, MINNEAPOLIS
Although "Cradle" directs its vitriol first and foremost to the greed and venality of those ruthless industrialists, it aims to offer broader points, not least how systematic corruption leads to systematic inequality and to the ways in which the exploitation of the working class is sustained by millions of Faustian bargains that people (from less exalted strata) make every day. As in Brecht's Mother Courage, Cradle r…