Who's a witch?

Last night we spend a portion of rehearsal exploring the three Maggies. We are on a quest to find the common link between them and then articulate how we go from one to the other. We began to explore religion, animals, voice and water. In religion, we spoke about the three spiritual presences in the play and if a Maggie aligns with one more than the other. All of them agree they WANT to be the witch, but at portions of the play feel most in line with the devil in attitude or in action with Thomas a Kempis.

The women also agreed that at least for young Mag, the starting animal imagery is a puppy. They built a puppy out out of imaginary clay and stepped inside it. Watching them on stage together doing just about anything is quite rewarding for me. It was amazing how even as a puppy (each had their own family dog in mind) they moved and responded differently to stimuli. They were not even thinking about Maggie, and so, I realize the differences are deep within them and so perfect.

We found a rich lower range to explore, giving Maggie an honest confident sound.

And then we decided that Maggie (for now) is water, and so we began physically exploring how that can inform the connection between them.

When the rest of the cast came in, the goal was to make the first strides at defining and staging the mob scenes. As with anything in theatre, we began slowly and worked out way to the floor and then more and more clarity came out.

I will have to write more about this later. As I need to get to rehearsal this morning.