Verena Vondrak (AUT)
„DONNA QUICHOTTE“
a day with the heroine of the knightly-sad shape
Tuesday, December 2nd (7.30 p.m.)
World Premiere!
Photo: Agnes Zorell
Actress: Verena Vondrak
Director: Hubertus Zorell
Stage Design: Doris Alb
Photos: Agnes Zorell
Donna Quichotte has a clear conception of life. Beginning in the morning. Nothing left to chance! Everything in the right place at the right time ... If you follow the rules of this game nothing can ever happen to you.
Donna Quichotte’s life is totally complete. One expects a lot of such a life. On top of that she is pregnant, and it didn’t happen yesterday. Her name will be Sancha Pansa!
The preparations are in progress, everything must be ready, everything must be beautiful. Everything must be perfect. Underpants are crocheted, a little dance is risked, some goodies are eaten …then there is happiness and satisfaction, cradling a child in one’s arms... like a saint …yeah, that’s true, women must be saints too … then everybody will be satisfied.
The only mistake is that we reached for something too high and now we are going to fall far.
It doesn’t matter, next time it will be the same….?
„Donna Quichotte“ is a show about the absolutely normal difficulty in making sense of the insistent world with even more insistent romantic conceptions and desires.
A play about the absurd charm of this heroic battle against these proverbial windmills.
Verena Vondrak, born in Vienna, actress, writer, puppeteer, costume maker, drama educator, clown. Studied at Jacques Lecoq Academy in Paris and the school for puppet theatre in Prague, educated as therapeutic puppeteer in Switzerland. Has worked in the field of theatre for children and clown theatre for more than 20 years.
Cliniclown since 1992, Artistic director of Cliniclowns since 2006.