Acting - Day 8 - The Birds
We were asked today to read a modernization of the play ‘The Birds’ by Aristophanes. The play describes two citizens of Athens who flee the life in the city to found a city of birds. This city in the sky is in a strategic position between man and the gods, and the birds exert dominion over both groups in the story.
The imagery in the play was very fanciful and the authors made a good effort to modernize the play. I was a little put off by the chaotic nature of the plot, bawdy attempts at humor, and constant rhyming. It was hard to really take the thing seriously and the jokes were hard for me to appreciate. The ending sort of caught me by surprise, but storytelling techniques have changed a lot in the last couple of millenia.