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Musical Play: “European Explorers in the New World”
The Show
We want you to know what you're getting, so the cast list and first third of the script are available here! Bad Wolf shows are written for flexibility and can be edited however you like to meet the needs of your actors, school, curriculum, parents, astrological chart, latest whim, etc. If you have questions about the portions of the script not shown, please contact us.
Casting
FLEXIBLE CASTING:
From 11-40 students. Use as many Fans, Crew Members, etc. as desired. Actors can easily play several roles, or a single role can be divided between multiple actors. Note especially that all roles can be played by any gender; we've written most of the news team with female names, but these can easily be changed.
CHARACTERS
Isabelle Scurvy
Makeup Artist (non-speaking)
Amber, the Assistant Director
Silvia Scoop
Prince Henry the Navigator
Jennifer Ravioli
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci and Fans
Leif Ericson and Norseman
Sonny Daze
Jacques Cartier
John Cabot
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Diego and Francisco, soldiers of Balboa
Montezuma and Atahualpa
Wendy Wellness
Juan and Pedro, soldiers of De Soto
Alanso and Miguel, soldiers of Coronado
Peyton Pastime
Ferdinand Magellan
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Words escape the Additional World: Escapade and Recollection in Patti Smith’s Referee Voice
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Don't know much about history? Experts fact-check 7 pop songs
By Emma-Lee Moss
From U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday to Early B's History of Jamaica, the historical pop song has been tackled by artists working in every genre. Sometimes tinged with the political, sometimes dispassionate and removed, these songs might draw from recent events, or those of the distant past. The narrator might be a bystander, as in Bob Dylan's The Hurricane, or central to the action, like the doomed prospector of Natalie Merchant's San Andreas Fault.
But to what extent can pop teach us about the past, and how accurate are pop musicians when they write about historical events? We took some favourite historical tunes and placed them before a panel of historians. Here's what we they told us...
PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill (2011)
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In On Battleship Hill from PJ Harvey's Mercury Prize-winning Let England Shake, an unknown narrator visits one of the sites of the Gallipoli campaign 80 years after World War One, and discovers that nature has taken over.
Dr. Sarah Irving, teaching fellow in history at King's College London, says that this seems plausible. "Most of the Gallipoli site has been allowed to return to a state of 'manag