Trailer for 'A Little Green Leaf', which is coming to Wellington.

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Transcript

00:00My name is Odette Sansom, Agent S-23 of the British Special Operative Executive, French Division.

00:07I found Odette Hallows at a time when I was searching for a way to heal part of my own family tree.

00:14I'd come to some knowledge that part of my family history involved working with the Nazis in Germany,

00:19a family I was not connected to that my mother ran away from when I was very young.

00:24However, it still exists that there's this place in my tree that I wanted to heal.

00:28And Odette Hallows' story was on Museum Secrets.

00:32And I looked at her dolls and she talked about escaping to the green.

00:35And she talked about a little green leaf being her hope.

00:39And that being in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp and being in the most torturous, awful situations,

00:45she could hold on to hope by way of this little green leaf.

00:48You, you are a miracle.

00:51That gave her the strength that she needed to come forward through the torture in the dark.

00:57And she came out with hope.

00:58Odette Hallows was just an ordinary woman who, by accident, sent her photographs to the wrong office

01:05and was called in where she was asked to become a special operative executive.

01:10I think the biggest message that I want people to walk out of the theatres and experiences of seeing a little green leaf to be

01:17is that even an ordinary person who thinks they can't make a difference in the world can.

01:24But you've got to dismiss all that and say, well, they are sick.

01:27I don't have to be sick.

01:29I don't have to be bitter because bitterness creates such terrible misery.

01:33And I hope that Odette's story inspires people to do something in the face of the realities we're facing now in the world.

01:43Why is it I am to survive if I survive changed and bitter?

01:48So, what then was it all for?

01:52There's inspiration, there's hope, there's story, there's history.

01:56Odette Hallows went on to become a well-decorated woman.

02:01And she spoke for the rest of her life of her comrades at war.

02:04The women who never made it home.

02:06She never let them be forgotten.

02:08This play is as much for them as it is for Odette.

02:11And I hope that you join us at littlegreenleaf.com.

02:14And we're so excited to be bringing this show to you.