Dance choreographer and theatre director Jacqui Carroll let me film a rehearsal of Frank Productions' work-in-progress To Have Done With The Judgement of God. It's alternative theatre based on a form out of Japan called The Suzuki Method. Very dramatic. Jacqui and husband, actor/dancer John Nobbs, have been adapting the classics for many years and now have quite a repertoire for their ensemble. The creator of the method Tadashi Suzuki has invited Jacqui to create a piece for his annual festival held in his home town of Toga - quite an honour.
This is hard core training. I've attempted it once. It's designed to bond the body, spirit and voice. This is their first all-male piece.
This Frenchman was way ahead of his time - he attacked America as a "baby factory war-mongering machine". The radio station which commissioned him to write it pulled it at the last minute and the censorship raised the hackles of other artists such as film director Jean Cocteau. God is found to be an organ pulled out a corpse on the autopsy table.
BTW: it was a hand-held shoot of a few hours.