Press
Ich bin dann Er
"Mit viel Energie erzählt Schauspielerin Ronja Donath die wechselhafte Biografie, in der sich Catharina die Identität von Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel ausdachte, um als Wanderprediger, Soldat und Lehrling das Korsett eines Lebens als Frau zu sprengen."
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Theater der Zeit, Lara Wenzel , 11.07.2024
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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
"Everyone can experience musical adventures. At its interim venue, the Musensaal im Rosengarten, the Nationaltheater Mannheim offers a magical musical theater experience for people aged 8 and over. "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza" is the title of this 80-minute musical family play. The focus is on the mad knight Don Quixote with an imagination that captivates everyone, and his faithful squire, who ensures that reality is not lost. The play developers Oliver Riedmüller, Polina Sandler and Maren Schäfer created a contemporary story with elements from Cervantes' Don Quixote. The experience of friendship plays a major role here, but so does the children's longing for a peaceful world.
Reading is like cinema in the mind. A popular saying when it comes to encouraging people to read. In Don Quixote's case, however, this has fatal consequences. Fascinated by the world of knights, which is so gloriously described in the books, he loses himself in his fantasies. He recognizes the shopping trolley with the dusty books as his horse Rosinante, excavators turn into green dragons, plants into golden helmets. This works well until his daydreams drive him mad. Obsessed with the idea that Sancho Panza is bewitched by an evil sorcerer, he becomes a prisoner of his illusions.
Sancho Panza, female in Mannheim and his friend, not only shows understanding for her friend's peculiarities, but does everything to ensure that he does not come to any harm in his fantasy world. Until the situation escalates. The children, who initially enjoyed the stories of Don Quixote, resort to drastic measures to free him from his madness. Knightly rules that once denied Don Quixote any pleasure are reformulated. At the end they sing together about their dream of an adventure world that everyone enjoys. A little bit of Pippi Longstocking, the Famous Five and many other children's crime novels and adventure stories come together here to create a new fantasy world.
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Klassik.com, Christiane Franke, 12 - 16 - 2022
[...] Ronja Donath as Sancho Panza is an all-rounder, friend, manager, connection to the children and the audience, present and convincing in every moment of the play. [...]"
Klassik.com, Christiane Franke, 12 - 16 - 2022
The little Prince
"[...] Fresh and world-embracing: "The Little Prince" with a new narrator. A new narrator is taking part in the comedians' summer theater, Ronja Donath, a childlike being who acts fresh and world-embracing like in a children's theater. And who builds the world not so much for the prince but with him. It is harmonious and completely different how Donath and Marie Dollenberg as the prince communicate here at eye level, two playmates on the same path. And how they meet and discover each other bit by bit already reflects the familiarization that the fox so desires.
Ronja Donath shines alongside the prince (Marie Dollenberg) as a fresh narrator.
[...] It is only logical that Mayor Hans-Werner Tovar, like the comedians, is delighted to praise the return of the "Little Prince" as an "integral part of Kiel's culture" - and as a cultural ambassador in numerous partner cities. And that is perhaps one of the secrets of the Little Prince - that year after year, much of it seems familiar and everything always seems a little bit new."
Kiel News, Ruth Bender, 23.07.2022
Hannah and the Punk - or how does freedom work?
"Under the direction of Lena Kußman, the theatre makers manage the balancing act of taking Arendt's often abstract theses seriously on the one hand, but confronting them with today's everyday experience on the other. [...] Andrea Casabianchi, Ronja Donath and Laura Jakschas are Hannah Arendt together. The three of them also live out the contradictions in her statements, bring a permanent inner discussion to the stage, the attempt to penetrate life and society and put it into words. [...] And then of course there is punk - in the form of the hardcore band ›Pisscharge‹. The band is real, nobody was cast, nobody is pretending. Its members, in turn, bring their own experiences of freedom to the stage discourse. Kassandra Spelti, Cristóbal Camiruaga, João Guilherme and Nico Tiekötter describe music as a space free from fear and attribution, in which they experience independence. Punk initially lives in a small energy cell behind a sliding door, as if it were a lift from the rehearsal cellars of the Glocksee area - and then pushes inexorably onto the stage. With its design, Britta Bremer quotes the 1960s talk show in which Arendt can be seen again and again in a video projection. She wants to 'awaken the desire in people to think critically', says Arendt. In the freedom discourse with the musicians, however, her stage representations are confronted with emotions. [...] The field of tension between thinking about society and the urgent need not to stand still is what makes the multi-layered staging of 'Hannah and the Punk'. Everyone fills the rest together with great personal closeness."
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Thomas Kaestle, 10 - 13 - 2019
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Lulu
"[...] Her appearance enchants every man: Lulu is not only beautiful and well-proportioned, she also knows how to play with her divine gifts and use them skillfully to seduce. Sometimes she plays the innocent girl who has never loved, sometimes the unbridled lover who wants her partner to lose their composure. [...]
With his production, Dietrich Trapp succeeds in creating a modern version on a reduced stage. The audience is there up close and sees Lulu's power games, her childlike joy of life, her shameful over-exertion when her male instincts are overstimulated.
Ronja Donath enchants the audience in a heated dialogue with Stephan Arweiler, who slips into all the roles of admirer.
She is the perfect cast, he manages to switch characters in a gallant and charming way before the eyes of the audience. Both protagonists complement each other wonderfully and guarantee an emotional, entertaining evening in which strong emotions such as jealousy, lust, violence and despair are played out brilliantly."
Title Culture Magazine, Mona Kampe, 07 - 03 - 2019
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Cinderella
"[...] The loving production of the Christmas fairy tale "Cinderella" won the hearts of the audience at the Celle Castle Theatre right from the premiere. Especially with modern themes.[...] It really has everything that an enchanting, lovingly dusted-off, imaginative and colorful children's fairy tale needs. On Thursday, this year's Christmas fairy tale "Cinderella" celebrated its premiere at the Castle Theatre with a
Cinderella
"[...] The loving production of the Christmas fairy tale "Cinderella" immediately captured the hearts of the audience at the Celle Castle Theatre at the premiere. Especially with modern themes.[...] It really has everything that an enchanting, lovingly dusted-off, imaginatively colourful children's fairytale play needs. On Thursday, this year's Christmas fairy tale "Cinderella" celebrated its premiere at the Schlosstheater with a
school performance and a house full of young spectators, a premiere that could not have been better: lively, almost interactive and real. The children followed every scene with excitement and did not hold back with shouts and comments - loudly expressing solidarity with the unfairly treated Cinderella (Ronja Donath) and the freedom-loving prince (Simon Gilles), which in turn was reflected by the actors. [...] The cool dance moves had the kids literally jumping out of their seats with excitement - the cool hip swings of the main actors were undeniably "totally awesome" and conveyed the feeling of fun and good humor wonderfully.
[... ]A good balance that director Sonja Elena Schroeder and the two dramaturges managed to achieve excellently throughout the entire piece: the balance between the visually opulent fairy-tale world of the court ball and the appeal to real issues such as patchwork families, bullying and the need to have a true friend at your side - even if he is a prince.
All in all, the production is a delightful spectacle -in every sense of the word. After all, it comes from the Latin word spectaculum. That means something like spectacle, feast for the eyes, sight, also noise, clamour. The dictionary says: 'It is generally used to describe an event that that causes a sensation.'"
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Celle Newspaper, Doris Hennies, 11 - 15 - 2018