Day: 23 November 2015

For my costume I had, my own clothes, 1 blanket and 2 scarves. I wrapped the blanket around myself and one scarf under my armpits and over my neck. And the other scarf around my waist. I had to dress like a female not too rich not to poor.  (looked poor as i made it..)    I also put layers and cardboard under the blanket to show that I am pregnant.

I think it was a good cover up for a boy acting a girl as there was no way I would do the performance in female clothing. It seemed obvious that I was a female because of the use of the scarves, looked like an average dress with multiple badly put together parts.

My character was Briseis.

Briseis lived in Troy till Achilles came and killed her family and took her as a trophy. In Greek mythology, Briseis, a daughter of Briseis, was a princess of Lyrnessus. Briseis was said to have had golden long hair, blue eyes, and fair skin and she was considered to be very beautiful and clever. According to Book 1 of the Iliad, when Agamemnon was compelled by Apollo to give up his own woman,  Chryseis, he demanded Briseis as compensation. Achilles is angry at Agamemnon, and seethes with rage in his tent: made furious by the thought of Agamemnon sleeping with Briseis.

To play this character, I need to act quite emotionally and confused as there are many things happening at once. My character is in the middle of a very tricky and risky situation and has almost no control of what can happen to her or anyone else involved.

I need to be able to act appropriately to each situation and be able to switch personalities at any time of the play. Multiple times something shocking for the character happens and I need to react believably to give the audience the full impact. My character is with people and alone at the same time so my personality is quite deep and mysterious at some points.

To understand the character I read up about Briseis and put myself in her position to see how I would have reacted to the situation, and from then I would see how it go and if it would fit in with the rest of the dialogue. It was a very tricky character to get used to and understand but in my opinion it went all right and I was able to portray my character the way it was intended to be