Overview

• The Hamburg house launched its new season with Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night under Anne Lenk, marking Sonja Anders’ debut as intendant.
• Lenk lightly refreshes the 1602 text and centers contemporary questions of identity and desire in her reading.
• A prominently integrated Treppenhausorchester, led by Thomas Posth, performs onstage to amplify Shakespeare’s speech rhythms.
• Judith Oswald’s multilevel set and Sibylle Wallum’s opulent, nature‑inflected costumes shape the production’s visual language.
• Early reviews single out ensemble turns by Gloria Odosi as Viola, Jeremy Mockridge as Malvolio, and newcomers Franziska Machens and Jannik Hinsch, while noting stretches that lean on slapstick.