Was ihr wollt

In the organizer's words:

Fake it till you make it!

Orsino loves Olivia. Equipped with a love letter, he sends his servant Cesario to his beloved. But his love remains unrequited. What they both don't know: Cesario is only disguised as a man and is actually called Viola. A comedy about appearance and reality, about longing for a desire beyond convention begins.

In her creations, Lies Pauwels creates poetic visual theater in which pop references and baroque music clash with uproariously funny moments and scenes of profound melancholy. Now she takes on what is perhaps the most beautiful literary manifesto of unfulfilled love and the impossibility of desire: Shakespeare's "What You Will".

Lies Pauwels is now bringing her unique visual language to Munich for the first time after acclaimed works at Schauspielhaus Bochum and Vienna's Burgtheater.

"'Was ihr wollt' makes me think of a bar night I experienced in New York in 2000, of men in drag who spontaneously organized a voguing and turned the bar into a catwalk, self-ironic, garish, very proud, lustful, only seemingly superficial: 'Fake it till you make it', seeking the gaze of the other, playing with desire, masking, deception, role models in a world full of narcissism, in which we constantly turn ourselves into objects."

- Edmund Telgenkämper, actor