Lesson review

In today's lesson we focused on the problem of Jason and the argonauts. This story is an extremely complex and long story. We only have 1 lesson a week and only 4 weeks left to finish the play we haven't even started. We were told that the only option is too split into 2 seperate groups and work on one scene for the rest of the week's. My group decided to so the Sirens:

The original stories tell us that the sirens were daughters of the river-deity Achelous. Their names meant beautiful face, beautiful voice, white being, music, maiden face and persuasive face, and so on. It is said they

challenged the muses to a musical duel but were defeated, and so abandoned the forest rivers for the rocky shoreline of southern Italy, perching there and luring sailors to their deaths with their songs and their beauty.

When Ulysses (Odysseus) left the enchantress Circe on his homeward journey, she warned him that he should ask his crew to fill their ears with wax while they rowed past the rocky shores where these creatures lived. Ulysses, wishing to hear the fabled sound of the sirens, ordered his crew to tie him – ears unblocked – to the mast. The crew followed their orders, and even though the sirens begged Ulysses to stop and come to them, the danger was averted.

Our group decided to include the back story of two of the Sirens (played by me and Meg). We decided to change the original Siren story and make it a bit more modern instead. In our version there were two woman who had a joint marriage. Both of them thought they had found true love and married their husbands happily. When they went home one woman was physically abused by her husband whilst the other was used mainly for sex. When the woman that was abused came over to the other woman's house for comfort she was sexually abused by the other woman's husband. So, one woman was abused sexually and physically and the other was used sexually and was cheated on. Out of rage both of the women drown their husbands and as punishment were sent to live out there days as mermaids, prisoners of the sea. But when men happen to cross their sea the women seduce them with their looks and voice and then drown them, still raged by the past.

My group decided to split the stage in half to show the different stories.