The first photos in from The Steampunk Opium Wars staged Thursday 16th February 2012 to almost 300 people at the National Maritime Museum.
Photographs by Jan Jefferies taken on my Lumix TZ20 camera except where stated. More photographs of the Farrago Poetry History Slam to come via Joh Paul O’Neill. Portraits of the cast by Sukey Parnell arriving soon.
(Thanks to Deborah Evans-Stickland’s friends at Verulaneum for the loan of the genuine replica Roman helmet for Britannia.)
The story in pictures: click on the first photo to see these full size, then click on the pic to advance to the next one and so on.
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- The evening commences
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- The Steampunk Opium Wars gets under way
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- Queen Victoria’s Royal War Decree
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- Anna Chen as The Narrator
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- Sir Jardine-Matheson and the case for war
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- Sir Jardine-Matheson puts his case to Lord Palmerston
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- Commissioner Lin Zexu arrives in Canton
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- Queen Victoria reads Commissioner Lin’s letter
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- Queen Victoria rejects Lin Zexu’s appeal.
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- Lin Zexu’s Protest song
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- Lin Zexu demands the British merchants’ opium.
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- Lord Palmerston declares war on China
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- Captain Ironside describes the war
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- Lord Elgin orders the burning of the Summer Palace
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- Mr Cobstone addresses Parliament
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- So, what’s it all about? All hail Britannia
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- Britannia sings “Money”
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- Britannia demands your money
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- Charles Shaar Murray and Marc Jefferies
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- Charles Shaar Murray and his Strat
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- Marc Jefferies on electrified basso profundo
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- Anna Chen as the Narrator
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- Anna Chen as The Narrator
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- Anna Chen as The Narrator
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- Anna Chen as The Narrator
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- Anna Chen as The Narrator
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- Anna Chen as The Narrator
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- The cast prepare for their curtain call
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- The Cast take a bow
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- Gary Lammin presents the Hackney Tea Ceremony
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- Sukey photographs Hugo Trebels and Anna Chen
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- Sukey photographs Anna Chen
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- Anna Chen and Neil Hornick (Captain Ironside)
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- Lord Palmerston and Commissioner Lin Zexo
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- John and Anna in the National Maritime Museum
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- John Crow after the show
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- Farrago Poetry History Slam workshop
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- A steampunk contestant in the Farrago Poetry History Slam
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- Anna announces the winner
All pix copyright Anna Chen 2012 except those stated otherwise.
