Ali Baba

When we read The story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in lessons story run through we had to write one word that we feel and think desciribes each story. The first half of Ali Baba i felt that the story was about love and jealousy and the second half of Ali Baba was Revenge and forgiveness.
The story came across to me as love as the brothers had that love even after all that they had been through together aswell as apart. The love they had was also shared with their wives but this story was not only about love it had shown jealousy. The showing of the jealousy between the brothers slightly gave off that the wives had that hatetrid between them.
After having read through all the storys when it came to divising for the story the parts were given out, Kasim was played by Jonny and his wife was played by Teri, Ali Baba was played by David and his wife was played by Laura.

The story of Ali Baba gave us the challenge as a group to work together as a team because the Captain had his team of bandits the forty theives.
In this half of the story i played the role of Marjanah, she was the slave girl to Kasim and his wife. In the story Marjanah helped the family but because of what had happened she was secretive and helpful and good at bribal.

 In the second half of Ali Baba i felt as the story gave out the feeling of revenge because the Captain was killed for having killed Kasim and planning to plot a kill on Ali Baba. The story to me also felt like there was forgiveness as when Marjanah had killed the Captain, Ali Baba instantly puts hatetrid on her but as she had helped him and his family she was given forgiveness and happiness.

Divising this whole story gave us that challenge to work as a team, to have divised the whole two stories showed that we was capable to doing it. As a whole group our strengths and weaknesses were the same as having the weakness of being un focused not working as a team and listening to each other became strengths as lessons went by.

Getting the role of Marjanah excited me as i thought it would be an easy character to play but as rehearsal days went past i had a weakness of bringing out the character and remembering my lines. It was hard to get in to the characters mind and to get the feel of how she felt. I over came this by just constantly reading through my lines and learning them and just thinking to my self how would she say this what would she do when she says that. I took my own time to sit and read and think of every bit to slowly bring out the character. Althought i had my weaknesses i had my strength of projection and taking and doing what the directions were given.