Comments | spiraltower: Southsea, Claritina, Tower/Dover, pre Lanark

spiraltower

Southsea, Claritina, Tower/Dover, pre Lanark

Aug 17, 2011 23:29

So, TF 16 happened and was a very different beast.

Living out - Ggeneral opinion seemed to be that while we missed being able to say "I live in a Castle", it was definitely better to have showers, sofas, a proper kitchen, separate (well, usually) rooms and a three legged cat.
A smaller team with a much tighter budget meaning only 7 roles and no ( Read more... )

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d20yfx August 17 2011, 22:39:20 UTC

I like Bek. He was awesome.

spiraltower August 17 2011, 22:45:30 UTC

As is often the way with Past Pleasures, several people get cast in each role and the line up changes from day to day. Now that I'm Artillerist for the rest of the 'Knight School' event, I can't help but watch others play Bek and think (at best) "Hmmmm. I wouldn't do it like that" or (at worst) "You're doing it wrong!" I'm deeply unhappy with the bloke who insists on playing him with a County Durham accent, for example...

d20yfx August 18 2011, 10:30:03 UTC

Beat that man with sticks?

Which part of his illustrious career is being portrayed out of interest?

spiraltower August 18 2011, 19:53:03 UTC

It's not really about him. It's 1306 and the Feast of the Swans. Edward of Caernarvon (soon enough to become King Edward II) has just been knighted and we're preparing for yet another campaign against the Scots.

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daisyann August 18 2011, 08:46:02 UTC

Darn, Lanark has come around again so quickly. I'll be in France but will let others know so maybe they will see you there.

knightclubber August 18 2011, 14:12:43 UTC

I find the idea of a show evolving over 15 years and then being reviewed incredibly intriguing- possibly overly so.

A feature of the time I've been re-enacting is the number of supposed facts which have been debunked (sometimes including utter garbage that other re-enactors had just made up and passed on). However, although most people are willing to change the content of what they present when it is clear they need to, they are very rarely willing to change the method of presentation. The resistance to new ideas is one of the things which is slowly eroding my love of re-enactment.

Much as having to make drastic changes probably represents a lot of work and stress for your team, I am really quite jealous of the fact that you get to work with people who will look at the need to change and do it. Inertia is a powerful force and I cannot help but fantasise about what might have happened if early re-enactors had been led by the principle of historical interpretation rather than beer and bash.

spiraltower August 18 2011, 20:16:56 UTC

A feature of the time I've been re-enacting is the number of supposed facts which have been debunked (sometimes including utter garbage that other re-enactors had just made up and passed on).

Yep, I know that one. I finally stopped re-enacting (at a hobby level, anyway, but I can't be arsed going into terminolgy at the moment)I shan't - ) about ten years ago, but I obviously still sometimes work alongside them and am not infrequently dismayed at some of the stuff that is taken as fact.

For example, waaay back I was drummer for Stafford's Household and made up a system of drum signals for drill and battlefield. I've heard them being used by other units in the last couple of years and have overheard someone saying that they're historically recorded. Well, I suppose they are if you you count eighteen years ago as historical, but they're hardly C15th. As for the continued prevalence of C16th dances in C15th century displays, that's a battle I've lost the enthusiasm to fight any longer...

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