Mystery Drama group

In Vancouver, a group is working on Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas, aiming to perform The Portal of Initiation in March 2021.

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We are a group of about 12 who rehearse the Mystery Dramas of Rudolf Steiner one weekend a month. Marie-Reine Adams, who has had much experience working with a mystery drama group in the UK, travels to Vancouver from Vancouver Island to direct us. Anja Macmurchie helps us with speech and drama exercises.

At present we are working with the Portal of Initiation with the plan of sharing some rehearsals with the public in the spring. A performance is planned in March 2021.

There are many surprises that happen around our practices. Improvements come in leaps and bounds. Even those with small parts benefit from hearing, repeatedly, the speeches of some others. In scene one we are introduced to all the characters and their views of life. One can feel one’s soul expand, gaining sympathy for many different points of view.

We struggle with our parts as each tries to feel the words they speak coming from the depths of the soul. Finding the appropriate gesture is important. The spoken word is transformed gesture; it is bodily motion changed to sound. Watching each other grapple with all of this is like watching a play within a play.

The latest miracle: one of us invited a lady very new to anthroposophy to visit a rehearsal and consider taking the part of Felicia (we have been without a Felicia since the beginning). This person learned a few of the lines and stepped into the part as if she was born for it.

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