ren fest silliness?

[javasaurus]

Suppose the year is 3572, and they're having a 21st century festival -- they'd have a quaint little city on the ground! with shopping malls, football stadiums, theatres, lots of archaic displays of two-dimensional television, sidewalks that don't move, etc., and maybe a ren fest!! A ren fest within the 21st century fest. Hmmmm...


Imagine being Will Riker and beaming down to what you thought was a post-industrial planet, only to be confronted with Henry VIII and grovelling peasants!


Imagine having a Roman Festival at a Tudor ren fest. Maybe a 1/2-hour or 1 hour series of events on the joust field, all in chitons (is that the word?). There could be an archery contest (here, deputy, hold this target), a short Roman play, racing (didn't they do that in the nude? Or was that the Greeks?), bear bating (Um...we couldn't find a bear, so we're using one of the deputy reeves), chariott racing (the jousters won't let us use their horses -- oh, deputies!)

Comments

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[dashrippington.livejournal.com]

Toooooooooo much time on your hands!!!

[rionnkelly.livejournal.com]

I second that emotion.

[elvisolb.livejournal.com]

You a sick / silly man.... but that would make a funny bit in the morning.

[anjabeth.livejournal.com]

Well, Filberta Fowler did do that Greco-Roman masque/interlude thing a few years ago. . . :)

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

yes, I remember the togas...and a pomegranate...that has been a while!