London 2012: tell us how the opening ceremony might look

Danny Boyle has revealed his surreal vision for the opening ceremony. Now we want you to send us your interpretations
  
  

A handout picture showing plans for the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
A handout picture showing plans for the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Think you could do better? Photograph: Dave Poultney/PA Photograph: Dave Poultney/PA

Danny Boyle has revealed his vision for the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, and it sounds both ambitious and surreal. Starting with a pastoral "green and pleasant land" featuring a village cricket team alongside a working farm and rural vistas, the extravaganza is expected to develop into a more urban vision, reflecting the development of the nation.

Boyle, whose vision is inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, impishly claims the ceremony will also feature real clouds that would supply "rain" if there was none in order to ensure a traditionally British atmosphere. A replica of Glastonbury Tor stands at one end of the arena, with "mosh pits" at either end of the arena, one reflecting a festival crowd, the other said to invoke the atmosphere of Last Night of the Proms.

We are curious to see how this will all end up. Will the ceremony be a witty and impressively epic paen to Britishness, or a mind-boggling post-modern mess?

This is where you come in. We're fascinated to see how this ends up looking, and we want to see your creative interpretations of the show. So we're setting up a special edition of The Gallery - here, as an example, is what our readers predicted for Euro 2012. Email your photoshopped masterpieces to gallery@theguardian.com by midday on Wednesday 13 June, complete with a caption. We will share the best we receive in a gallery - and the top three will also win a prize.

 

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