Below are some video and audio examples, to help illustrate what our piece would have been like. We don't have many rehearsal videos of our piece, so we have decided to include audio clips recorded after the project was cancelled to help illustrate our concept.
This is a video extract from Scene 1, pages 4-5. The actor playing 248 is absent from the video, so the actor playing 335 is reading in for her.
This was our first time blocking this scene, and so it's more of a walk through than a performance.
The character's are standing in their big boxes and the two coats on the floor are signifying the place of absent actors (Alex was ill and Amy was filming).
Below are some audio recordings of monologues from each woman's story. Because we cannot meet up, we edited audio clips, recorded in separate homes, together, which we believed was the best way to present some of the script.
Hopefully listening to these will help you imagine the voice and characterisation of each woman that we would have displayed in performance.
This is an extract from Scene 2 - Annie Londonderry, pages 17-20
This is an extract from Scene 4 - Edith Wilson, pages 24-26
This extract is from Scene 6 - Lilian Bland, page 31
This extract is from Scene 8 - Mary Beale, pages 44-47
This extract is from Scene 10 - Annie Edson Taylor, page 50