Monday, July the 22nd, 2013

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Tableaux Vivants

My latest project is to stage a series of tableaux vivants. These will take place daily over the coming week. Each one will last for a duration of no more than one minute, at a push, at various locations in the hustle and bustle of the London streets, what Keith Pratt termed “the hurly-burly of the urban conurbation”, and each one will be a vivid, static, solo re-enactment of a significant historical event. I have thus far chosen six subjects:

1. The death of Socrates
2. The sinking of the Lusitania
3. The Punic Wars
4. The relief of Mafeking
5. The second resignation of David Blunkett
6. My first choc-ice

I would be grateful to readers for suggestions for the seventh and final tableau vivant, which it is intended will outshine the other six in both vividness and historical significance.