The message that they were trying to bring across to the audience was how the world is mostly dominated by white people, and how they do not really care bout the other people who live on the places that they are trying to conquer. They are mostly explaining what had happened to the Native Americans. But I do have to admit that I did not really understand the message that was brought across. Once the play had ended many of us were confused as we did not really understand, but once they explained it to us I found that it had all been done really clever.
What actually happened in the play was that 2 actors were performing 2 monologues but these were changing from one to the other as the play continued. It talked about the oppression of the Native American who was loosing all his dignity. The white man was the oppressor. But as he was distructing the Native American he was going to be distructing himself too as they both depended on each other.
As the play went on there were a lot of things that were done which symbolised other things. E.g., the man acting as a flea represented the white man and when he was talking about how the flea reproduces so many eggs so fast, he was meaning that the Native American was unable to destroy the white man. And also when he was drinking alcohol (Native American) he was trying to show how it was all the white men’s fault for bringing it to their villages.
The set is my opinion was pretty basic, it was not big at all and that made us focuse more on what was going on. The room that they performed in was surrounded by mirrors and I think that this symbolises heaven as it is all clear and the Native American was dying. Inside the room there was a coffin which is probably the most important thing on stage it again represents death and this links to the surrounding mirrors that represent heaven. I also liked the mirrors because when the Native American was speaking he wasn’t always looking at the audience but he used the mirrors so that he could talk to himself.
The lighting was also very good because you could see when the Native American was speaking the atmosphere went more dark/ reddish and this showed that he was dying. But when the flea represented the white man was talking the light when very bright and again represented that he was alive.
I personally thought that the play was done good as the actors always kept their concentration and gave out a lot of emotions. The message was a bit hard to understand though, but once you understood what was actually going on it was really interesting to watch.
