Brian Woolland worked as a van driver, a helper on a farm, a wine merchant and a photographer; as a teacher in mainstream education and in a therapeutic community for maladjusted adolescents before becoming an Advisory Teacher for Drama. He then took up a post at the University of Reading.

On the BA he taught a wide range of courses, specialising in educational drama, theatre production, Early Modern theatre, and modern American theatre. In 2005 he resigned his post as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Theatre, Television in order to focus on writing and working at his own will, meaning he works for himself and he is his own boss. He is widely published as an author of educational and academic books, where his specialism is theatre of the early modern period. He has also had considerable success as a playwright – with ten plays commissioned and produced by professional companies, and five published in book form.
His most recent play, This Flesh is mine, used The Iliad as a starting point. It previewed in Ramallah, Palestine on 8th May 2014; and opened in Battersea, London, on The 19th May. The play was co-produced by London based Border Crossings and Ashtar Theatre of Ramallah, Palestine. He regularly leads theatre workshops and teaches creative writing, but spends most of his time working as a writer, and theatre director.THIS IS NOT MY OWN WORK. HERE IS THE URL

(http://www.brianwoolland.co.uk/biography.html)
This source helps me understand what he was thinking when writing this play because it tells me his past experience and

WHAT IS GREEK TRAGEDY?
Greek tragedy is a form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Asia Minor. It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC. Greek tragedy is an extension of the ancient rites carried out in honor of Dionysus, and it heavily influenced the theatre of Ancient Rome and the Renaissance. Tragic plots were most often based upon myths from the oral traditions of archaic epics. In tragic theatre, however, these narratives were presented by actors. The most important authors of Greek tragedies are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. THIS IS NOT MY WORK. HERE IS THE URL
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_tragedy)

UNDERSTANDING OF CHARACTER
My character is Achilles, Greek warrior in the Trojan War but he is the strongest warrior. But In my scene Achilles previously gave Patroclus his armour to fight with in the war but his plan backfired and Patroclus ended up being killed and Achilles armour was robbed by hector from the dead body of Patroclus and when Ajax returns with the body of Patroclus accompanied by Phoenix Achilles is upset with himself because his armour didn’t protect Patroclus as hoped and is also angry with Hector for stealing armour that does not belong to him.

CHOICE OF COSTUME:
My choice of costume consisted of Green cargo combat trousers to represent battle because green is a bold and a quite army colour and I thought wearing green cargos will represent combat, a white long sleeved shirt which to represent that I am in a higher status because the others were wearing either a black or some sort of dark coloured shirt and that shows that I am in a higher status than everyone else and to finish with white adidas superstar trainers to match the white long sleeved shirt and the green cargos. The white trainers symbolize a higher status because the other two characters are wearing black shoes. Overall my costume symbolizes that I am stronger than the others and to show that even though I have no armour I am ready to fight.

How successful was the project/performance?
The performance was very successful, everybody was on cue with their lines, and even though we were one man down (Gabriel filled in for Kaine) the performance still went well but the only thing I myself could have done better is look at the camera more and move about a bit more because it will make the audience more interested in the performance because there is more than one thing going on and not just one person standing about.

What areas need further development or re-thinking?
I think my area that needs further development is I need to speak a bit louder because while I was watching my performance I was kind of struggling to hear my lines and that could be a problem if I was doing an actual staged performance because if you cannot hear the performer then you will not understand what is going.