The UP News is a comprehensive program magazine that accompanies every production of the University Players. The magazine illuminates the production from aesthetic, historical, and artistic perspectives, provides insight behind the scenes, and informs its readers about the many activities associated with the University Players. It gives you the opportunity to gain essayistic and editorial…
We’re casting for Polly Stenham’s THAT FACE, a hard-hitting, intense and visceral dissection of dysfunctional family structures. The play contains themes of addiction, abuse, and psychological transgression. Actors are thus invited to familiarize themselves with the play before the audition. If you require more information, please email us at up@uni-hamburg.de. We welcome people of all…
The one-rehearsal-one-show ShakespeareWith Brian Bell Step into the world of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, where banishment becomes adventure and love blossoms in disguise. Follow Rosalind and Celia as they flee to the Forest of Arden, sparking a lively journey filled with wit, friendship, and unexpected romance. Watch Rosalind, hidden as “Ganymede,” playfully test Orlando’s…
Workshop with Mbene Mwambene (CH) Insaka Moves unfolds as a communal, story-driven, and varied performance practice involving acting, movement, writing, monologues, and poetry. Participants explore the relationship between body and memory. They are reminded that every body carries knowledge, and that dance and acting are relational. The workshop turns movement into conversation and creates spaces…
