The character that I played in Act 1 Scene 5, Embassy to Achillies, was Phoenix who is a general in the Greek army which brought up and taught Achillies who is a Achean warrior which is also known as a great King of the Myrmidons.
This scene has six characters Achillies, Pheonix, Ajax, Hector, Hecuba and Patroclus. It is mainly about the relationships between characters and shows how they feel and act, also shows how each of our characters slowly drift away from each other and fall out.
In this scene I feel that The moment which had the main focus of our scene would be the ending as it was showing Achilles and Patroclus’s relationship and how they were feeling.
Historical contexts that could of been felt in our performance would of been the war between Palestine and Syria as there are two different sides having a war and different characters are in different sides e.g my character Phoenix was on the Greek side. Our extract tells us that the characters were living in a chaotic world due to war.
My character Pheonix has different feelings as he is calm at first but then begins to get angry after what he has heard Achillies say to Ajax and he is very shocked and angry. This effected my performance becuase it shows what character Pheonix really is and also shows he’s characteristics.
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