The Middle Class Aristocrat

This week I had the amazing opportunity to play the lead role in the Middle School Play “The Middle Class Aristocrat”. The role that I played was Monsieur Jourdain, who is a foolish middle class man who dreams of nobility. This hilarious Comedy is set in Monsieur Jourdain’s home in Paris. He is a middle class man who has every desire in the world to be a gentleman. In his attempts he hires masters of Music, Dancing, Fencing, Philosophy and a Tailor to assist him in his aspirations. Jourdain also goes to such measures as to ask for the help of a Count to speak and bring expensive gifts to the widowing Countess Dorimene, although the Count portrays these gifts as his own. 

It was fantastic to see so many boys from the boarding community participating in the play and be able to dedicate hours upon hours of hard work and effort learning lines and dances that were performed flawlessly, with a couple mishaps along the way. The boys that are boarders in the play are:

(Hodges) Finn Beachley: Monsieur Jourdain

(Hodges) Gus Allen-Burton: Dorimene

(Hodges) Tom Hebblewhite: Lackey

(Robson) Alex Mingay: Lucille

(School) Marlon Caley: Musician’s Apprentice

(School) Justin Gao: Ensemble

(School) Roo Taylor: Ensemble

All of these boys spent countless amounts of time rehearsing and deserve praise and all those involved should be proud of what we had achieved as a cast. However, none of this would be possible without the help we got from our spectacular director Ms Bell. She is the one who pulled this whole production together. We also could not have had a play without Ms Horsley the Co-Director, Ms Brosnan the Stage Director and Ms Wolseley our dedicated Makeup Artist. All of these staff members, along with all of the boys brought this piece together and I don’t think it could have turned out any better. On behalf of all the cast we heavily appreciate the time everyone took to come out and support and I am really grateful that all of Hodges came to support.

Finn Beachley (10HS)