Extracts from a final devised piece by the core research group, CL3
The Virtuous Well
Ideas behind the work:
A number of local legends were spun together for this final piece around a
narrow, unforgiving community, border disputes and a man who disappeared
one night near the well.
We devised a piece where an annual ritual is held as a form of penance by
the community for former blood-lust where a man had been wrongly killed. A
girl from the village is sacrificed to a bird. As the ritual is performed
this year, the community decide it is time for self-forgiveness. The bird
is burnt as a sign that the ritual will not happen again.
There was a suggestion by participants to read this as a metaphor for the
end of the research Trilogy.
(CL3: performing place)