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PostPosted: 00:06 - 10 Dec 2019    Post subject: Historical reenactment on TV documentaries. Reply with quote
I watch a lot of history documentaries. They often have reenactments. Good money i suspect for struggling actors. However I wondered if you were to be drafted in to play a part in one of these reenactments, what would you suit? Ancient history, knocking about with Cleopatra? Maybe the Tudor period living it up with 'Enry the eighth, or the big one, Hitler!
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Regency/Georgian period and the Napoleonic wars. Basically the last major wars fought before mechanisation and the industrial revolution.

Stuck in an infantry square, bayonets out forcing the French cavalry away. what glorious fun, and home in time for tea. Thumbs Up

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PostPosted: 10:37 - 10 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:
Regency/Georgian period and the Napoleonic wars. Basically the last major wars fought before mechanisation and the industrial revolution.

Stuck in an infantry square, bayonets out forcing the French cavalry away. what glorious fun, and home in time for tea. Thumbs Up

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Butler_Lady_Quatre_Bras_1815.jpg/440px-Butler_Lady_Quatre_Bras_1815.jpg


Not muzzle loading a cannon at Trafalgar? I would have thought that was more your cuo of rum?
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PostPosted: 11:41 - 10 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
I’d be a Baldrick type character Smile
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PostPosted: 12:13 - 10 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ribenapigeon wrote:


Not muzzle loading a cannon at Trafalgar? I would have thought that was more your cuo of rum?


When I was a kid, probably 7 or 8, my Mum took me to Madame Tussauds in London. Nothing fazed me, torture chamber was cool. Then we went into a representation of the gun deck of the Victory at Trafalgar.

It must have been one of the first interactive displays anywhere. There was smoke, smell, noise, gunflashes. Explosions and you were standing amongst it all. It was claustrophobic and overpowering.

I still remember it clear as day now. I was absolutely petrified. I very much doubt they would be allowed to do it now as the volume, meant to match the battle, was deafening.

I took my grandson on the real Victory in Portsmouth a year a go and standing on the 32lb gun deck all those childhood memories came flooding back, I was a mental wreck when I got off that ship.

So, no thanks. That's one thing I wouldn't want to do. I'll stick to stabbing Frenchies with a bayonet. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 12:44 - 10 Dec 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
pepperami wrote:
I’d be a Baldrick type character Smile


I suspect there were a lot of them. Theres certainly plenty these days. But hey ho after thursday we'll be seeing less of them on the telly.
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I auditioned to play one of Cromwell's Roundheads but they wouldn't have me. They said I had a cavalier attitude.
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I'd make a good Jack the Ripper.
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Fisty wrote:
I'd make a good Jack the Ripper.


Thats up there but not quite Hitler level, maybe Rasputin level.
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Harald Bloodaxe would suit me.

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I'd probably make a half decent warrior in ancient China, although obvs racial issues there.
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