L’histoire de la baguette

Over the last few weeks the Year 9 French class dreamed up, wrote, rehearsed, memorised, blocked and performed their very own play about the French Revolution: “La Révolution française, or l’histoire de la baguette”. As well as being writers and performers, they were prop and costume designers, and our expert sound engineer managed to splice the Dr Who theme neatly on to Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, matching key, timbre and tempo with staggering precision. The Year 9s wrote the play with the Year 7 French classes in mind, half in simple French and half in English, with plenty of language jokes and a good measure of slapstick humour. The plot traced two Aussie tourists’ visit to France, and and the final result was both entertaining and enlightening, with a bit of magic involved. The play’s final line was a COVID-friendly affirmation of home, as one of the tourists exclaimed, on leaving Paris: “I miss Bowral!”

Our wonderful Year 9 French students are to be congratulated on this spectacular effort.

Elizabeth Maddox