"HOPE SPOT OCEAN" is a 45-minute monologue theater piece that dives beneath the surface of the Baltic Sea and takes the audience on the journey of the protagonist Stella. 

Stella is in an intense phase of her life: she has just lost an important person and is struggling with loss, dealing with finiteness and the unspoken. The Baltic Sea serves as a projection screen for her pain: garbage floating in the sea, the noise of ships, acidification, ammunition rusting away on the seabed, overfishing... Circling in her dystopian thoughts of the self-inflicted end of the world, she reaches a turning point at which she actively searches for hope in the sea, on land and within us. 

Premiere: 17.09.2021 Hansa48 Kiel

Director: Lara Phelina Pansegrau
Play & Idea: Ronja Donath

Multimedia: Patrick Staves 
Social Media: Maria Wille
Director Assistance: Muriel Stuber

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"HOPE SPOT OCEAN" is a collaboration with the association Alte Mu - Impuls Werk e.V. in Kiel and was created in cooperation with Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. The Submaris diving team from Kiel supported the piece by using their video material. In 2022 "HOPE SPOT OCEAN" was nominated for the children's and youth theater festival "HART AM WIND" as one of eleven productions and played as part of the selection. 

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INSPIRATION.
The great ideal of the project is the 88-year-old American marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle, whose tireless, hopeful attitude to life is the inspiration for the title of "HOPE SPOT OCEAN". Her initiative of "Hope Spots", protected marine areas worldwide, is a spotlight in the play.