William Dudley Bill-D Location: London, United Kingdom Language(s):
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The Big Picnic Photoshop February 2007
2 Concept images for a Theatre piece "The Big Picnic" about Trench warfare on the western front in World War 1. The show was staged in the Engine Shed of the Harland & Wolff
shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland, this was where the Engines for the Titanic were built in 1911. The show was a "Promenade" staging, where the audience were led on foot through the scenes on the battlefield. The female figure riding on the bridge crane, was my interpretation of the "Angel of Mons", one of the many visions seen in the skies over the trenches by thousands of soldiers, on both sides, during the battles. In our show she became the Angel of Death, claiming the souls of the dead