Ronit Menashe
רונית מנשה
Comic, musical women's theatre — sends you home smiling and thinking
About the artist
Ronit Menashe is a theatre creator, director, actress and writer with twenty years of experience on stages across Israel. Under her brand "Ronit Menashe – Women's Theatre" she creates original productions that take complex, timely Jewish and Israeli material and give it a comic twist – with a minimalist visual language, striking imagery and outstanding costumes, at repertory-theatre standard. The shows are for women of all backgrounds, aged 17 and up. The shows play in 400–600-seat theatre halls to full houses, with some venues booking them again year after year. Ronit founded and leads Balat"m, a playback theatre ensemble of six musical actresses – some of them therapists – that has performed throughout the country for ten years. Separately, together with Nurit Krauze she developed "Autobiographical Theatre", a five-month course in which women with no stage experience work on their own life story and end with a performance before an audience. She trained in set and costume design, studied writing with Rama Burshtein, and spent two years in the "Yumarot" theatre incubator of Mifal HaPais.
Shows
In the King's Court
A musical comedy featuring nine performers that brings the Book of Esther into sharp conversation with the present — blending genuine laughter and rhythmic dance with moments that land exactly where they should. For women of all backgrounds, aged 17 and up.