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 ‘THE WALL’ is a concept album, by Pink Floyd. It tells the story of a rock ‘n’ roll star, who has gone mad while watching war videos in his hotel room. His life and nightmares flashes before us, as the worms eat into his brain…  
THE IDEA FOR THE SHOW
Our show followed the album version of the ‘THE WALL’, rather than film or live stage show.
Ideas and images were borrowed form all three sources, but our main aim was to create something original, that involved all of the creative arts, dance, song, music, acting, mime, painting, sculpture, photography, animation, installation projections and performance art.  

LIGHTING
Our lighting was based on the Union Jack flag (Red, White & Blue).
For example the three colours rotated throughout 'VERA' as flags flew in the background.
Also 'darkness' was to reflect the albums mood, as 'IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?'  

THE STAGING
The band played behind a gauze screen and could only be seen when lit up, they were behind 'the wall'.
We didn't let the audience see them fully until the end of 'COMFORTABLY NUMB'.
Onto the gauze screen animated version of these web pages where projected, as can be seen in 'YOUNG LUST'.
In front of the gauze screen we had the performance area.
The central area was clear for dancing, as in 'THE THIN ICE'.
Three black blocks were use brought on give extra high, as in 'GOODBYE BLUE SKY', for the crucified soldiers.
To far left was an area with tables for the performance artist to work from, this is where the smashed 'T.V.' lived.
A video camera also was arranged in this area, linked to another 'T.V.' to give another view of the show.
Next to this is a 'bed', for various characters to use.
On the right was 'Pink's room', with chair, tall lamp stand and T.V. (with war movies on it).
Next to this was a 'school table', with graffiti all over it.
At the very front, before the audience, were three large white 'brick' blocks, used for extra height.
The audience sat on raked seating to give them a good view of the show. 

THE CHARACTERS
PINK: the main character, a rock 'n' roll star who is going mad.
PERFORMANCE ARTIST: the 'pink mask', who acts as Pink's mind.
PINK'S FATHER: kill in the war, but an ever present memory.
PINK'S MOTHER: over bearing.
PINK'S WIFE: unfaithful and vicious.
WIFE'S OTHER MAN: from the protest movement.
NARRATORS: who sing 'IN THE FLESH?' and give backing vocals to other songs.
TEACHER: sarcastic and soul crushing.
TEACHER'S WIFE: a psychopath, who constantly canes her husband.
TELEPHONE GIRL: connecting from the U.S.A. to little old England.
GROUPIE GIRL: a dirty girl.
THE DOCTOR: who keeps Pink going with drugs.
JUDGE / 'THE WORM': a pompous ass.
BARRISTER: a pompous ass licker.
DEATH: an ever present threat.
THE POLICE: with their truncheons
DOG OF WAR: who kills the father and leads the army
THE SOLDIERS: army fodder.
DRUMMER BOY: young fodder.
THE WORMS: dancers, school kids, rock chicks, black shirts and the worms.
THE BAND: behind the wall. 

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
"There is no conventional dialogue to progress the narrative. Our story is about Pink, a rock 'n' roll performer, who sits locked in a hotel room, somewhere in Los Angeles. Too many shows, too much dope, too much applause: a burned out case. On the T.V. an all too familiar war film flickers on the screen. We shuffle time and place, reality and nightmare as we venture into Pink's painful memories, each one a "brick" in the wall he has gradually built around his feeling. Slowly he withdraws from the real world and slips further into his nightmare as he imagines himself as an unfeeling demagogue, for whom all that is left is the demonstration of power over his unthinking audience, the culmination of the odious excess of his own world and the world around him. His internal self trial follows, as the witnesses of his past life, the very people who have contributed to the building of the wall, come forward and testify against him." - ALAN PARKER 

Mr. T .
I was 18, in 1979, when ‘THE WALL’. I had just finished my 'A' levels and had started Art School. The album seemed to reflect the times as they were and just to speak it as it is. I used to walk around listening to ‘THE WALL’ on my walkman. I never thought that one day I would be staging this excellent work.
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