I have been reflecting on the process this week and the "richness" on conversations via email, pre-rehearsal, and with individuals. That said, I am "refining" the huncgh idea so that it shifts away from well known individuals from the period and focusses more on the unsung heroes and heroines of the American Civil Rights Movement. For example:
- less Rosa Parks and more Claudette Colvin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Claudette_Colvin(Sister Diane this means having you in a different role, and casting a teenager in the part I asked you to consider)
- less Andrew Young and more Bayard Rustin - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
peter-dreier/bayard-rustin- presidential-medal-of-freedom_ b_3731304.html
- and by the time we have our production in front of an audience, our Christ-like character should stands on its own versus being a quasi-imitation of Martin Luther King Jr.
This also fits with the decision to have 6 women and 6 men as the Twelve Disciples.
This is the direction we need to go. Exciting!
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