Understanding of character: The character I am playing is the ghost of Briseis’ father, the character ghost has come back from the dead. He is  trying to help his child from making a big mistake. The character is telling his child about her boyfriend Achilles and he is telling her to leave town and to take refuge in Troy. In the play it does not say how he died in the play so it is hard to really understand the character truly. In the play I say “Achilles may have struck me down but I will never leave you” suggesting Achilles was the one to kill me and why I so angry my daughter is still with him and why I want her to leave.                                                                                                                                                   Choice of costume: It was hard for find a suitable costume for the character I was playing because it didn’t let us know how he died.I wanted to make it look to the people watching that the character i was playing was dead. so I decided were  white shirt with a stab mark and with blood, and I was wearing  black bottoms and black shoes. I done this so it will make the people watching wonder how the character died.                                                                                                                                                           use of space: when I was acting I made sure I was think about how fast and where I would be moving to. When i was walking on to the stage I had to make sure i was moving slow and with less movement in my body and i had make sure i was not moving a lot when i was speaking to Briseis. The reason i decided to do this is because you would really so a ghost moving fast and with joy and life. 
Use of props, lighting, sound The use of the sound of bombs at the beginning of the performance were to make the audience aware of the war. Briseis wakes up and goes to the window to see what’s happening outside and shuts the window and tries to sleep. This was to show how she was both tired physically and tired of the war. We used two blocks for Briseis’ bed and a dressing gown to show this was her bedroom. I emerged from behind a curtain so that briseis couldn’t see me. Coming out from the curtain from nothing into view was to represent crossing the bridge from death to life.
Employment of processes from other practitioners. I decided to put myself into the shoes of my character. I thought he would feel scared and angry because I told Briseis to flee because Troy wasn’t safe for her. I wanted her to leave Achilles and never come back. As I am dead and Briseis hadn’t listened to me, I feel my character would feel furious because he could no longer protect her, because he is a ghost, and there is nothing he can physically do. To show this, when speaking to her I shouted her name and when she later replied “I love you father, forgive me…” I cut her off to show my anger. I was also close up in her face to try and scare her into listening to me and fleeing. Even though I was angry, i still listened to what she had to stay and keep telling her to leave because she is my daughter and I still want her to be safe.
Use of semiotics The biggest use of semiotics in my piece was the window. When Briseis closes the window she is showing she is tired of the war and all the fighting and all the people dying. The window acts as a reflection of what’s going on in her head about the land being destroyed, the people dying and how she’s tired of all of it. Another use of semiotics was the blood on my shirt. The blood goes to show that I am dead, that I could have been murdered in the war. I chose blood because blood is always thought of in violent deaths and is an obvious symbol to the audience.