The Black Adder travels through time by falling into paintings in an art museum and emerging in the time and place depicted. The four destinations are: [1] Ancient Troy, where he meets Helen; [2] the Crusades; [3] the American Revolution, where his goal is to take over APUSH; and [4] the Russian Revolution, where he has a rap battle. Costumes and props are needed to portray the different eras, including outfits for Helen of Troy, Trojans, Crusaders, Americans, Lenin, Stalin, and Baldrick. Paintings providing the portals to each time period are also described.

1. The Black Adder
Costumes and Props

2. Paintings
In order to have transitions between each time
period that The Black Adder visits, the story will
begin in an art museum where he accidentally
trips and falls into a painting and finds himself
in the place and time period of the painting. He
goes back in time through paintings by visiting
the art museums in each location until realizing
that in order to get back home in modern times,
he must paint himself there.

3. The four destinations of the black adder:
Troy: Hellen of Troy
Crusades: Indulgences
American Revolution: Take over APUSH
Russian Revolution: Rap battle

4. First Painting
“The Abduction of Helen of Troy” Cesare Dandini

5. Second Painting
The Crusaders Reach Jerusalem: Scenes from theGerusalemme Liberata,
1732–39
Designed by Domenico Paradisi (active 1689–1721); Woven at the San
Michele manufactory in Rome under the direction of Pietro Ferloni

6. Third Painting
Battle of Bunker Hill by Percy Moran, 1909 (Library of Congress)

7. Fourth Painting
Ivan Vladimirov (1869-1947) was a painter of battle scenes of Russian-Japanese war, the revolution of
1905 and WWI. He worked in police and painted not from someone’s words but from what he saw
with his own eyes. Unfortunately I. Vladimirov finally turned into quite an ordinary battle-painter, who
began to create in the style of mimetic socialist realism (to serve the interests of the Soviet leaders).

8. Fourth Painting
option 2
Peasants take away the property of manor estates and go to the city for better life.
Ivan Vladimirov “From Their Homes”

9. Costumes

10. Helen of Troy

11. The Trojans

12. The Crusades

13. American
Revolution

14. Russian Revolution

16. The Black
Adder
Blackadder: George, the British
Empire at present covers a
quarter of the globe, while the
German Empire consists of a
small sausage factory in
Tanganyika. I hardly think we can
be entirely absolved from blame
on the imperialistic front
Blackadder: Baldrick, I have a
very, very, very cunning plan.
Baldrick: Is it as cunning as a fox
what used to be Professor of
Cunning at Oxford University
but has moved on, and is
now working for the UN at the
High Commission of
International Cunning
Planning?
Blackadder: Yes, it is.
Baldrick: Mm... That's cunning!

17. Baldrick
Private Baldrick: I have a plan,
sir.
Captain Blackadder: Really,
Baldrick? A cunning and subtle
one?
Private Baldrick: Yes, sir.
Captain Blackadder: As
cunning as a fox who's just
been appointed Professor of
Cunning at Oxford University?
Baldrick: And look, there's a
surprise present inside. It's a
novelty death warrant, and
you give it to a friend.
“Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom”
— The German Guns, a
WW1 poem written by
Private S. Baldrick,
Blackadder Goes Forth

18. List of all costumes borrowed
from the drama department
-Three red jackets (For American Revolution)
-Three matching hats (Pirate hats)
-Two coat/suit jackets (For Lenin & Baldrick)
-Six more hats (Two options for Baldrick, Two
options for Stalin, and two extras for the russian
revolution segment)

19. American Revolution
• Take over APUSH

20. The Trojans
• Hellen of Troy
• Trojan war
• Trojan Horse
• Achilles

21. Russian Revolution
• Rap Battle: Lenin vs. Stalin

22. The End