Ripcord by David Lindsay-Abaire
When Abby and Marilyn make a bet about who gets the bed by the window in their shared room, it’s the beginning of a very funny battle for control in a seniors living facility. From 19 February to 1 March 2025
On the Road
The Hamburg Players were invited to perform their award winning productin of Love/Sick at the prestigious “Landjuweelfestival” in the Belgian city of Ghent.
A Christmas Carol
Patrick Barlow’s fast-paced and imaginative adaptation of the classic will take you on a whirlwird ride through the darkest as well as the most sentimental parts of Victorian England. Only a handful of actors take on all the roles you know from the Charles Dickens novella.
Theaternacht 2024
Hamburg’s “long night of the theatre” is setting of the new season all the while celebrating its 20th anniversary - the Hamburg Players improvisers are looking forward to participating as part of the Theater an der Marschnerstraße line-up.
Anyone Afraid of “Virginia Woolf”?
From 5 to 15 June 2024, we present Edward Albee’s classic American drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
And Then There Were None - or were there?
Agatha Christie’s crime classic abour ten strangers trapped in a luxurious house off the Devon coast. As soon as a storm makes escape impossible, the first one of the group is found dead. Soon afterwards, another one While it becomes clear that all of them are in mortal danger, one question remains: whodunnit?
It’s A Wonderful Life…
… A Live Radio Play is our November 2023 production. The stage adaptation of the American holiday classic reimagines the story as a 1940’s radio broadcast.
The show must go on…
…even if it’s at the last minute. The Hamburg Players participated in this year’s FEATS Fringe 2023, the non-competitive section of the Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies in Bad Homburg. Which proved to be much more nerve-wrecking than it sounds.
What’s in a colour?
When you decide to lead a cast of fifteen plus a crew of even more through months of rehearsals you have to be a person of many talents. When your assistant director comes up with a brilliant idea regarding costumes, sewing might be one of them.
Meet the Gossips
They may not appear per se in Jane Austen’s novel of Sense and Sensibility, but the Gossips in Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation make for great entertainment.
Sense and Sensibility
Our upcoming production is a brilliantly funny adaptation of the classic taking you on a whirlwind journey through the social conventions of Regency England.
Theaternacht 2022
The Hamburg Players will participate at Theater an der Marschnerstraße: 8pm and 10.40pm: watch our improv group invent scenes on the spot
9.20pm: Excerpts from “The Cringe Effect” written and performed by Cecelia Marshall
(Foto: Lidija Delovska)
FEATS 2022
The Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies is back - the New World Theatre Club Luxembourg welcomed nine groups to perform one-act plays over the course of four evenings. A crew of about ten Hamburg Players travelled south to present Mike Bartlett’s Contractions.
After the Revolution
Is it true that Grandpa Joe was a spy for the Soviets during World War II? The late patriarch was blacklisted during the McCarthy witch-hunt era - which led his granddaughter Emma to naming her legal aid fund after him. But now, Emma’s whole belief system is turned upside-down, possibly throwing into question her fight or a fair criminal justice system.
L’art pour l’art
For our production of Design for Living, Mathilde Berry, Jessica Albiston, and Lexi von Hoffmann created various pieces of art as part of the set design. Check out what they say about our very own Matisse recreation, sketched portraits, and why spears and gowns don’t seem to go along well on stage.
Our Halloween Radio Play
This Halloween, the Hamburg Players have a very ghoulish treat for you: we present a special new format with 6 of our actors performing classic macabre stories in the style of the horror radio serials of the 1940s and 1950s, the golden days of radio.
Constellations
One man, one woman – and endless possibilities of how their relationship could unfold. Roland and Marianne hit it off at a barbecue and decide to make a go of it – or do they?
Ah, sweet mysteries of music
It takes a village to get a theatre production off the ground. Here’s a look at the behind-the-scenes work of Trevor Ferdy and Harald Djürken who recorded music for Annie Wobbler - during lockdown, in two different places.