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The workshop Borrowed Identity, Page 2
Ingrida pretends to be her daughter and Jesus her son.
The other students Frederick, Michael and Matthias pretend to be friends from
abroad, visiting the family at their home. Through conversations the students
shall get an insight into real Irish life.
On Sunday our scenario becomes really concrete as we meet Mary at the welcome reception.On Sunday our scenario becomes really concrete as we meet Mary at the
welcome reception. Mary accepts Ingrida and Jesus as her “children” at the
very first moment. Surrounded by an intercultural catering, our participants
introduced themselves and got to know each other and Mary better. Mary
invites the students to her home for the next day, so that everything is perfect
to make the role play as authentic and realistic as possible.
Since Mary leaves to Spain on Tuesday, Monday is our most important day and
the role play takes place. During the morning we prepared everything for the
meeting in the afternoon. During the morning meeting we got two new members
for our workshop: Dot and Laurence. The students made a first test run for the
role play with Dot as Mary. Dot did her job as a mother very well. Could it become
much better in the afternoon? Nobody could imagine that..
At 13.30 p.m. we drove to Mary´s home and showed her the movie “Achill 2004” from last year, so that she could get an impression of the whole project and get used to the idea of being filmed herself. Afterwards we introduced our plannings for the next two hours:
The “new and old” children of Mary are coming home from school. Patrick (formerly known as Jesus from Spain) and Megan (formerly known as Ingrida from Lituania) sit down in the living room with Mary and start chatting. Suddenly the bell rings and three friends from abroad are warmly welcomed by Mary and her children.
The friends have a lot of questions about the Irish culture. They talk about life on Achill, about Guinness, Mary's husband, the Irish language, and so on.
The filming of the role play worked out very good. Mary enjoyed our “intercultural” cake and she made a real Irish cup of tea for all of us. It was a very very exciting and memorable moment. And everything is on tape!
Everybody of the group did a really great job and now all are waiting for the final version of the documentation movie. We are looking forward to watching it and last but not least: A big group applause to Mary, we already miss you and we are looking forward to seeing you soon!
By Arnold Schenk and Antje Laacks
