“I pray you all give your audience
and hear this matter with reverence
by figure a Moral play
that of our lives and endings show
show transitory we be all day”
Everyman (anonymous)
Commissioned for Meditation: a Festival of the Sacred Arts, organized by St James Cavalier, EveryWoman uses as a starting point Medieval Morality and Miracle plays, in particular, texts from Everyman and The Chester Cycle as well as excerpts from The Bible. The performance revolves around the journey of "EveryWoman" through the thematic and metaphoric trials and tribulations of Christ during chosen episodes of His Passion, from a more mortal and since the cast is all female, also from a female perspective.
We meet EveryWoman at the beginning of her life when, young, naïve and pure, she is sent on a mysterious journey by four jocular, eerily mischievous and grotesque characters calling themselves by each Element (Fire, Water, Earth and Air).
What ensues is a cycle through which EveryWoman will stain, cleanse, purge and re-new her original purity with the help, and at times hindrance, of these four strange characters who lead her way. Set against the predominant themes of Temptation, Ceremony, Crucifixion and Resurrection of our Lord’s Passion, we will join this woman as, through a symbolic passage, she will experience these themes through episodic milestones inherent to any female’s life: puberty, marriage, childbirth and death.
Language: Maltese
Director: Simone Spiteri
Performers: Simone Spiteri, Magdalena van Kuilenburg, Franica Pulis, Victoria Theuma, Kristjana Casha
Musicians: Michael Galea, Andrew Alamango
Songs & Voice work: Tim Ellis
Photos by DrooRizz Photography
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