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Harvey Weinstein Accuser Mimi Haleyi Opens Up About Her Emotional Reaction to Verdict

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We also aim to have newspaper headlines which we refer to in dialogue projected onto boxes that are scattered around the stage

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We aim to have normal lights with some red low lights which almost foreshadow the events of our piece. We also want a spotlight on out corkboard to highlight it's importance to the audience.

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We wanted to have a jingle for the game show scene but decided against the scene as a whole, so we now want no music in our piece as we feel it will make the whole thing more impactful.

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For this scene we want naturalistic lighting to go with the fact that this scene is supposed to be as realistic as possible.

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We want purple lighting for this moment as we feel this colour creates a sense of confusion which will go with the confusion our characters' face at the end.

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Helps the audience directly connect with the victims as all attention is on them.

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We want to have harsh spotlights on each character when they're recounting what happened during the assault. This will add to the fact that they're in a dull police interview room.

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We’re performing some answers we received from this questionnaire in a scene about catcalling - linking the moment to our chosen practitioner and their verbatim techniques.

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Instead, we will insert some answers from our questionnaire between verbatim newspaper headlines about Weinstein. This will give the audience a bit of context on our piece.

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We have scrapped this scene that happens towards the end and have decided to add elements of it into the first scene.

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We will have the questions trigger the victims responses and stories of how the attack went.

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We are now working on intertwining this scene with the bulk of our performance which are the victim statements.

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I have been watching interviews with Mimi Haylei on YouTube and familiarizing myself with her accent to allow the verbatim performance to be accurate.

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We read through our script to allow ourselves an opportunity to develop the way we deliver our lines.

This has made us realise we need to develop an American accent to play Weinstein’s victims and further emphasise the Verbatim parts of their dialogue.

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These are people’s responses to how they’ve been catcalled and what they think sexism is.

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With the responses to our questionnaire we decided to create a light-hearted scene that would represent two people going head to head in a game show. These responses would be used as the contestant characters' answers to sexism questions, adding more verbatim to the piece as well as contrasting the mood of the rest of our scenes which are serious.

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We constructed an online questionnaire which presented people with questions about sexism and received around 44 responses.

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In one of our scenes, all victims are on stage and are answering questions about their assault, however each victim responds in a different way despite having slightly similar answers which is mainly done with our tones of voice as well as movement. This also connects with the police investigation that we display earlier in the piece as some of the questions can resemble the types that police would ask witness or victims.

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We decided to use a crime evidence board as a way of bringing our verbatim information into the piece whilst also representing that our focus is on a crime case.

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We got inspiration from Paper Birds' live performance of 'Thirsty' as they used writing on the walls of toilet stalls to begin the verbatim parts of their performance.

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We have each statement from these victims to use as verbatim and show the audience the reality of sexual assault in the Hollywood industry.

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In order to utilise this practitioner's techniques, we came up with the idea to take the verbatim stories we want to tell off a corkboard similar to ones you would see in a detective's work space.

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With this idea we want to show the different ways in which people can respond to being sexually assaulted and raise awareness of the fact that this can happen anywhere with anyone.

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- Mimi Haylei
- Jessica Mann
- Lauren Young

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A 67 year old Hollywood film director who was accused of rape and sexual assault by 80 women.
He used his power in the industry to pressurise his victims.
Convicted in February 2020 and sentenced to 23 years.

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This quote relates to the fact that so many victims stay silent after being sexually assaulted, as well as Weinstein’s victims due to the power he had over them.

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”

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We were given four stimuli to choose from and decide which one would inspire our final piece.

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We thought that using Paper Birds would be a creative way of showing the effects of sexual assault, as well as allowing us to recount what the victims experienced and felt in verbatim which engages the audience as the language used can be very emotive.

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We originally wanted to cover the story of how Lizzy Borden allegedly murdered two people - her father Andrew and her Step Mother Abbie.

These two people were murdered with an axe and although Lizzie was heavily blamed, she was found not guilty.

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Our group has decided to use the Paper Birds practitioner.

Paper Birds uses verbatim theatre techniques, focusing on providing accurate information to immerse the audience into the topic they’re covering.

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The Harvey Weinstein Case