One notices immediately that this will not be a normal visit to the theatre. Because the theater is weirdly squeezed in behind Hamburg’s main train station, surrounded by industry and warehouses. A huge parking lot with barriers – not fancy here. Trucks maneuver, people unload boxes. Next door a wholesale market for groceries. In between we run, we want to see “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”. There are children in pointed witch hats, men in three-piece suits with magician’s cloaks.

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