The Black AdderCostumes and Props

PaintingsIn order to have transitions between each time period that The Black Adder visits, the story will begin in an art museum where he accidentally trips and falls into a painting and finds himself in the place and time period of the painting. He goes back in time through paintings by visiting the art museums in each location until realizing that in order to get back home in modern times, he must paint himself there.

The four destinations of the black adder:

Troy: Hellen of TroyCrusades: IndulgencesAmerican Revolution: Take over APUSHRussian Revolution: Rap battle

First Painting

“The Abduction of Helen of Troy” Cesare Dandini

Second Painting

The Crusaders Reach Jerusalem: Scenes from theGerusalemme Liberata, 1732–39Designed by Domenico Paradisi (active 1689–1721); Woven at the San Michele manufactory in Rome under the direction of Pietro Ferloni

Third Painting

Battle of Bunker Hill by Percy Moran, 1909 (Library of Congress)

Fourth Painting

Ivan Vladimirov (1869-1947) was a painter of battle scenes of Russian-Japanese war, the revolution of 1905 and WWI. He worked in police and painted not from someone’s words but from what he saw with his own eyes. Unfortunately I. Vladimirov finally turned into quite an ordinary battle-painter, who began to create in the style of mimetic socialist realism (to serve the interests of the Soviet leaders).

Fourth Paintingoption 2

Peasants take away the property of manor estates and go to the city for better life.Ivan Vladimirov “From Their Homes”

Costumes

Helen of Troy

The Trojans

The Crusades

American Revolution

Russian Revolution

The Black Adder

Blackadder: George, the British Empire at present covers a quarter of the globe, while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganyika. I hardly think we can be entirely absolved from blame on the imperialistic front

Blackadder: Baldrick, I have a

very, very, very cunning plan.

Baldrick: Is it as cunning as a fox

what used to be Professor of

Cunning at Oxford University

but has moved on, and is

now working for the UN at the

High Commission of

International Cunning

Planning?

Blackadder: Yes, it is.

Baldrick: Mm... That's cunning!

BaldrickPrivate Baldrick: I have a plan, sir.Captain Blackadder: Really, Baldrick? A cunning and subtle one?Private Baldrick: Yes, sir.Captain Blackadder: As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?

Baldrick: And look, there's a surprise present inside. It's a novelty death warrant, and you give it to a friend.

“Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,Boom, Boom, Boom,Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,Boom, Boom, Boom”

— The German Guns, a WW1 poem written by Private S. Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth

List of all costumes borrowed

from the drama department

-Three red jackets (For American Revolution)

-Three matching hats (Pirate hats)

-Two coat/suit jackets (For Lenin & Baldrick)

-Six more hats (Two options for Baldrick, Two options for Stalin, and two extras for the russianrevolution segment)

American Revolution

• Take over APUSH

The Trojans

• Hellen of Troy

• Trojan war

• Trojan Horse

• Achilles

Russian Revolution

• Rap Battle: Lenin vs. Stalin

The End