Was ihr wollt

"What You Will" is Shakespeare's most enigmatic, romantic and certainly most beautiful comedy: twins Viola and Sebastian are shipwrecked and washed up separately on the coast of Illyria. Viola disguises herself as a man to try her luck at the court of Duke Orsino under the name Cesario. Orsino is in love with Countess Olivia, but she wants nothing to do with him. The Duke sends a messenger to his beloved one last time, namely the young Cesario (i.e. Viola). It comes as it must: Olivia falls in love with the young man, who is actually a woman, and who is able to speak so beautifully of love. Viola, in turn, has lost her heart to the duke. When Viola's twin brother, who was thought to be dead, suddenly turns up, things start to get complicated. And when Malvolio, Countess Olivia's courtier, mistakenly believes that she loves him, at some point no one knows who desires whom, why and how. It's a good thing that the anarchic Sir Toby Rülps, a cousin of the beautiful countess, and his cronies keep things down to earth.