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Was ihr wollt

Comedy by William Shakespeare

 Schauspielhaus
 Premiere: 7.5.2025
 2 hours 15 minutes
 English surtitles
 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€
 Schauspielhaus
 Premiere: 7.5.2025
 2 hours 15 minutes
 English surtitles
 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€

Fake it till you make it!

Orsino loves Olivia. He sends his servant Cesario to her bearing a love letter. But Orsino’s love remains unrequited. What neither he nor Olivia realise: Cesario is only disguised as a man and is actually called Viola. Thus begins a comedy about appearances and reality, and about longing for a desire beyond the conventional.

In her work, Lies Pauwels creates poetic visual theatre in which pop references and baroque music collide and uproariously funny moments are juxtaposed with scenes of deeply sad melancholy. Now, she is taking on perhaps the most beautiful literary manifesto of unfulfilled love and the impossibility of desire: Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night – or What You Will”.

Following celebrated productions at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Vienna Burgtheater, Lies Pauwels is now bringing her unique visual language to Munich for the first time.

  • Assistant to the Director Jakob Elija Seeberger
  • Stage Design Assistant Ying Yue
  • Costume Design Assistant Rafael Hinz
  • Directing Intern Maja Höck
  • Stage Design Intern Lin Noa Gennrich
  • Dramaturgy Intern Lukas Möller
  • Stage Manager Barbara Stettner
  • Prompter Jutta Ina Masurath
  • Surtitling Yvonne Griesel (SPRACHSPIEL)
  • Artistic Production Management Zora Luhnau
  • Technical Production Management Jonas Pim Simon
  • Stage Master Kai Bockermann
  • Stage Machinery Ulrich Heyer, Thomas Grill
  • Signal box Diana Dorn
  • Lighting Felix Adams, Louis Nickel, Tobias Fisch
  • Sound Jonathan Wimer, Thomas Schlienger
  • Video Jens Baßfeld
  • Make Up Steffen Roßmanith, Marisa Schleimer, Elvira Liesenfeld
  • Costume Bernd Canavan, Marija Ruzic, Nico Vanni, Celina Voggenreiter
  • Props Anette Schultheiss, Sabine Schutzbach
  • Carpentry Stefan Klodt-Bussmann, Hannes Bickelbacher, Michael Buhl, Sebastian Nebe, Josef Piechatzek
  • Metalworker Friedrich Würzhuber, Jürgen Goudenhooft, Andreas Bacher
  • Decoration Maria Hörger, Tim Hagemeyer, Anja Gebauer, Lisann Öttl
  • Scenic Painting Evi Eschenbach, Jeanette Raue, Natalie Knäble
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Digitale Einführung
Digitale Einführung

Find out more about Shakespeare’s “What You Will”, the relationship constellations in the play and the terms “love” & “grief”.

Press reviews

Abendzeitung • 9.5.25
Münchner Merkur • 9.5.25
Süddeutsche Zeitung • 9.5.25
Qooz, Max Kuhlmann • 8.5.25
Brandner Live Kulturblog • 8.5.25
nachtkritik.de • 8.5.25
Dates & Tickets
Tue 27.5. 8 pm

Night talk with students from the Institute for Cultural Management and Media at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts

Take part Abo: Dienstag grün
Sun 1.6. 7 pm
Abo: Sonntag weiß
Sat 7.6. 8 pm

Introduction from 7:30 pm

Abo: Samstag blau
Thu 12.6. 8 pm
Abo: Donnerstag weiß Junge Nacht: 2 Tickets for 10 €
Sun 22.6. 7 pm
Abo: Sonntag blau
Mon 23.6. 8 pm

Introduction from 7:30 pm

Abo: Montag grün
Tue 8.7.
Abo: Dienstag orange
On sale from 2.6.
Wed 9.7.
Abo: Mittwoch orange
On sale from 2.6.
Fri 18.7.
Abo: Freitag orange
On sale from 2.6.
Sun 20.7.
Abo: Sonntagnachmittag
On sale from 2.6.
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Was ihr wollt
  • Schauspielhaus
  • Premiere: 7.5.2025
  • 2 hours 15 minutes
  • English surtitles
  • Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€