If things work out with the Knoxville Unit, it might be possible to resurrect the Queen Boudika rock show. My original design was for stage but it could work for video as well.
There are four primary songs for this one.
The early part
The Iceni women are going about their day in a soft and beautiful way. In the distance comes the sound of approaching Romans.
Boudika, My Name is War
She talks to her daughters about the Roman attack on them and how it will be avenged. The Iceni tribe rises up with others and many Roman occupiers are killed.
The Battle Song and the Death of Boudika
There was immense killing and she even burned Londonium, the proto-London of the time, to the ground. The Roman occupiers would be destroyed wherever they were found. At the end of all this carnage, the Romans regroup and Boudika dies in battle.
"The Girl Who Would Be Lavender"
Boudika has died but this will get kozmik in rejoining her dead husband, the King of the Iceni, and her kids (who didn't really die in the story). The object isn't to talk of religious matters but show the ascendancy of a beautiful thing. We don't ask where it goes.
Much of it is already written but this was to have been the second Cincinnati concert and that collapsed for various reasons. Doing it for stage now is probably logistically impossible but video could deliver much coolness.
The trouble with the story of Boudika, despite it being one of the stone coolest tales of feminism, female fury, revenge, love, and all-out primal savagery, is it's been told only a billion times or so.
We can modernize it and essentially end up with a "V for Vendetta" but what about Rocky Horror on this one as well. I like camp and it's an exceptionally difficult art to keep it from falling into mindlessness. That difficulty shouldn't make it compelling but it does anyway.
It would be my direction to camp it out if revisiting it. I think that could make a swell result and not likely resembling anything done previously.
There are four primary songs for this one.
The early part
The Iceni women are going about their day in a soft and beautiful way. In the distance comes the sound of approaching Romans.
Boudika, My Name is War
She talks to her daughters about the Roman attack on them and how it will be avenged. The Iceni tribe rises up with others and many Roman occupiers are killed.
The Battle Song and the Death of Boudika
There was immense killing and she even burned Londonium, the proto-London of the time, to the ground. The Roman occupiers would be destroyed wherever they were found. At the end of all this carnage, the Romans regroup and Boudika dies in battle.
"The Girl Who Would Be Lavender"
Boudika has died but this will get kozmik in rejoining her dead husband, the King of the Iceni, and her kids (who didn't really die in the story). The object isn't to talk of religious matters but show the ascendancy of a beautiful thing. We don't ask where it goes.
Much of it is already written but this was to have been the second Cincinnati concert and that collapsed for various reasons. Doing it for stage now is probably logistically impossible but video could deliver much coolness.
The trouble with the story of Boudika, despite it being one of the stone coolest tales of feminism, female fury, revenge, love, and all-out primal savagery, is it's been told only a billion times or so.
We can modernize it and essentially end up with a "V for Vendetta" but what about Rocky Horror on this one as well. I like camp and it's an exceptionally difficult art to keep it from falling into mindlessness. That difficulty shouldn't make it compelling but it does anyway.
It would be my direction to camp it out if revisiting it. I think that could make a swell result and not likely resembling anything done previously.
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