Yesterday was the last day that we had in the large movement room at the RSAMD so it was one of our final chances to really get stuck into these three big boxes that we have and the different possibilities that they present. This little video shows some of the movement sequences in their basic forms as we work through them, the first is attempting to show the train that takes Mother Maria, and hundred of others, to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp and the second one is a rough draft of a sequence where Mother Maria is smothered by attempting to 'mother the whole world'. These are still in development and will of course change over time (we still have another 4 weeks of rehearsal left) but are indicative or where we are just now.
We found some really interesting information about the ceremony that Mother Maria undertook to become a nun and we have tried to bring an element of that to the piece:
Next week we shall really be focusing on the text and bringing out the different challenges that Mother Maria faces, for a woman who helped so many people it is striking how she really struggles to keep her own family together, her battles with husband Daniel are the most striking:
But for a play based in such a miserable time and place we have really been working on bringing out the joy in a number of scenes. Maria's sister, Sasha is a very optimistic person and always brings a ray of sunshine to the stage, until things get so bad that even she can't cope anymore.
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