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ACHILLES

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  A Kabuki Play

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  A company of players tell, sing, dance and enact the story

  SET: Presents the "plain of Troy" which takes on many moods.

  Achilles' tent will be the main scenic item, it's appearance and disappearance incorporated into the company's action. All scenes flow seamlessly from one into another.

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  CHARACTERS: 5 men, 2 women, Chorus of women and men

  BRISEIS - Narrator. Achilles' war prize

  PATROKLOS - Greek warrior. Achilles' best friend

  AGAMEMNON - King; Commander of Greek armies

  ACHILLES - greatest Greek warrior

  THETIS - Achilles' mother, Goddess of the Sea

  PRIAM - King of Troy

  HECTOR - Priam's son, greatest Trojan warrior

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  CHORUS: by turns they play:

  SOLDIERS - both Greek and Trojan

  CHRYSEIS - Agamemnon's war prize; daughter of high priest.

  LYCAON (boy) - Priam's son, young soldier

  GOD VOICES - Athena and Apollo

  RIVER VOICE - the River speaks

  KOKEN - "enablers" of the story; stage-hands