BCh+Character+8+Baldrick

**Character** Baldrick **Stimulus** Blackadder Goes Forth: TV Series 4 **Performance focus** Create a solo performance based on the character of Private S Baldrick. Rushing backwards and forwards as he gathers the ingredients for Rat au Van, Baldrick divulges to Captain Edmund Blackadder his latest ‘cunning plan’ to avoid death. He • re-creates his view of life in the trenches on the Western Front • creates a scene which compares his cunning plan with one used by his ancestor, transported Villain S Baldrick, to outwit Governor William Bligh in the colony of New South Wales • dramatically warns future generations of the dangers of blindly following the orders of ‘lunatic generals’. **Performance style** Non-naturalistic with aspects of farce **Theatrical convention** Caricature **Dramatic element** Climax **Reference material** Blackadder Goes Forth, TV Series 4, 1989, (PG) [] []
 * PRESCRIBED STRUCTURE 8**