Stepping on the Path - Sacred Drama with Elen of the Trackways

Katie Player, a priestess of Avalon, came to give a workshop on the British Goddess Elen called 'Stepping onto the Path - Sacred Drama with Elen of the trackways, in the recently opened Goddess Temple of Madrid.
We begin with a discussion on the relationship between women and the sacred drama in history.
In ancient times there was no separation between the theatre and ceremony, but now all actors are famous. The Greek theatre that survives is patriarchal, and masks serve as embodiment of the characters. When a Greek actor put on a mask he embodied the god, as the god dwelt in the mask. It was not designed to hide the power, but to empower it! Spanish theatre began as a sacred drama, and today it is manifested in carnival masks.
In Britain, we learned sacred drama almost doesn't exist apart from medieval plays, Bible stories and puppet shows, although some practices survived as Mummer's plays, Morris dancing and May Day festivals. It began to die in World War II, when many actors died - the same family members could play the same roles for centuries - but they were all men! The fear of the power of women on a scene prevailed until the eighteenth century. The first actresses were prostitutes, since for thousands of years a woman could only be one thing; if you are not a virgin, or wife and mother, you're the bitch. The journey to sacred drama is a way out of this lie, and we are turning the wheel.
Katie told us that the woman should be the maid (pure), and the mother is she who gives everything and has nothing left for herself. We reclaim the lover and the Crone (whose wisdom is often discarded). The more we focus on this the less we are affected by the outside world. Women begin to tell their stories, and we begin to change the stories of shame and guilt.
I mentioned how it was at my school, which set a single path for us and forbade us to imagine otherwise. It was expected that women would end up in business - to be trained to be like men.
When a man wakes up in the morning, he thinks, "I'll do this! ', But when a woman wakes up in the morning, she thought," Can I do this? Is it safe to do this? '. Next we talked about voices and the fact that in our culture high voices are beautiful and feminine and masculine undertones are not. Women are taught to make their voices sound higher to be accepted, and some oriental languages, for a woman to pronounce a word in a lower voice is pronouncing it wrong!
In reindeer society the leader is not the strongest male, but the oldest female. The UK was covered in forest long ago, and deer are the largest wild mammals that we have not killed and we are not used to large animals which are not tame. The creatures of the forest know where to hide!
Following this, we saw a slide show of images from Elen, many different representations of artwork, some by people I know. Through this we learned that Elen is associated with mushrooms and Fey - both natural and a queen.
After participating in the sacred drama groups, first creating still drama pieces with our bodies from a word, and other groups had to guess which was our word; and then we were instructed simply to dance to different types of music in any way felt best for us at that time.
We finished with a sharing circle and I found it a very useful workshop and added that the great experiences I've had working with Elen in the past.