Ghetto Rehearsals Week 1

This week we held our first four Ghetto rehearsals. After initially reading the play I don’t think trauma which we are attempting to portray quite hit me as these were just words on paper. After the first rehearsal it did. Mr Brown’s analogy of the little fish living in a shark tank really struck a chord with me and I think it is because I have visited the aquarium and wondered that very thing many a time. I think only when we get into costume and feel a true sense of division and separation between the Jews and the Nazis will us, as the “Jewish population” feel truly intimidated and inferior. But the little fish and shark analogy was a brilliant introduction to the fact that in time we will hopefully begin to get a glimpse of what it was like to live life with death always knocking and no escape in sight. That I suppose, is why the members started performing.  Finding my character of the Judge will be challenging because I only feature in one scene where I am performing a satirical insulin play. I am really playing a Jewish citizen who pretends to be a judge and this double layer will need to be evident in my work. I think the judge says what she says when ‘acting’ in the play because she wants everyone to see what is ethically right – that is why she speaks of the nonsense it is to condemn people to death simply because they are diabetic. Ironically I am extremely and totally opposed to the death penalty however I find my character stating “Do we ever have the right to sentence people to death? Answer: We do.” Friends within the class who know me well immediately picked up on this and it will only be another personal hill to climb, having to directly state that I am for something that in reality I oppose drastically.