‘This flesh is mine’ by Brian Wooland is based on a Greek myth called the Iliad by Homer, and produced in collaboration with Ashtar theatre from Palestine. It is a poetic new play which brings together Homer’s Troy and the Middle East of today’s world. The play focuses on war and how it effects people. Brian Wooland wrote this play in England the  developed it in Palestine which effected the way he wrote as a war was going on at the time.

In this story there is a war between the Trojans and Greeks which is very similar to the war between Syria and Palestine and this was influenced Brian Woodland to write this so it could relate to similar wars. Brian Wooland going to palestine helped not just the plot of the story but what events happened and the effects.

Brian Wooland wrote this play because his aim was to explore some of the themes of dispossession and occupation, obsession and delusion that had appeared in the workshops that he was asked to run in 2007 by the Panhellenic Association of teaching Drama. Brian Wooland is trying to say through the story that war  is not a not a thing of the past but it stil effects people now, this is shown through Brian Wooland converting from ancient Greece to modern day.