Overview
Character Name
Sister Berthe
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Child, Early Teen, Late Teen
Role Size
Featured
Dancing
Mover
Voice
Mezzo-Soprano
Vocal Range
High Note: C5
Low Note: C4 (middle C)
Time & Place
Austria, 1938
Analysis
Mistress of Novices. Does not think that headstrong, free-spirited people like Maria belong in the Abbey and is horrified by Maria’s behavior. She tells the other nuns that Maria’s level of disruptiveness is such that she would “throw a whirling dervish out of whirl.”
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