Moormaid - Marion Bott

"To choose is to commit, and to commit is to be free."Berlin. Eleven past eleven. Art teacher Melissa is about to do something drastic.Seeking a place to hide, her ex-pupil Mehdi interrupts her momentum. Both embark on a turbulent journey, painting and battling their way through the past.This explosive new play about self-destruction and rebirth attempts to understand the fear currently gripping the European psyche, and the threats that may be posed by our own alienated youth.

Marion Bott is a French-German writer and actress working in four different languages. She trained at one of Berlin's top screen writing schools, Filmuniversitt Potsdam-Babelsberg, in Scriptwriting Master of Arts. Theatre writing credits include: MOORMAID (Arcola Theatre), and CYBER LOVE (Stadttheater Ingolstadt, Germany).