Day: 22 November 2015

I chose my scene because it is the last scene and is very important scene, in my scene there are multiple genres making it very interesting to act and to spectate.

Many things happen in my scene making it even more fun to act out, it also includes Achilles’ death, something very important to know. Another reason I chose my scene is because the text all makes perfect sense and is worded correctly, in some scenes the grammar is different, The scene included 4 characters so that is another reason. I liked playing as Brisies as she has an interesting role in the piece which makes her choose between 2 very important things for her.

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict i also find interesting and thought it had meaning in my scene. I also chose my character because I wanted to play as a female to see how differently I would have to act, for example, not much movement and not a masculine form.

The text in most scenes have very different genres and ways to be performed, my scene and character role is very tricky and varies how it is acted by different people, when playing Brisies I did not want to sound too weak but I did not want to sound weak so I was in the middle with a few up and down jumps.

The scenes have multiple ways of being seen, and multiple ways of being played, the genre varies between, action, drama, and in other scenes other genres. You cant act the whole piece with one style, every scene is different and surprising in its own way.

The piece is mostly very short sentences but occasionally has some soliloquy’s with multiple emotions. My scene did not include a soliloquy.

For my costume I had,  One blanket, 2 scarves, and my own clothes. I wore my own clothes and wrapped the blanket around me like a dress, i tied the first scarf under my armpits and over my neck and the second one around my waist.

“The flesh is mine” is a very powerful piece, a piece that can be seen from multiple perspectives about multiple things. The play has its roots in “the Ilyad” and is very similar having the same structure and even character names, but is essentially exploring the contemporary experiences of people living under states of siege in the Middle East and those in the UK who are affected by events in the Middle East.

The play is a modernized but keeps the same meaning and view, to keep it unique from “iliyad” he based it off of the corruption in Israel and Palestine. The structure of the story was written 2700+ years ago by a Greek poet named Homer, it was a story which those who travelled sang.

The story evolves around one of the most known warriors in Greek history (if he is not a myth), Achilles, the powerful, the brave, the unstoppable. According to some his mother dipped him into a magical pot/cauldron making his skin impenetrable giving him a huge advantage with his battles. Most people know of something known as “Achilles heel” when Achilles mother dipped him she left his ankles untouched resulting in his weakness and easily damaged part. This is seen where Achilles and Hecuba have a short scuffle and Achilles injures his ankle.

The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict starts after World War One in which Palestine had been administered by the United Kingdom under a Mandate received in 1922 from the league of nations. Israel has been stealing Palestinian land for a long time resulting in many confrontations and retaliations. The Trojans are the Israelis and the Greeks are the Palestinians.

Daniel Zibaee