hi.
im currently studying drama in year 12 and as part of my solo performance i have to explore the links betewen "jack and jill" quangtech and the french revolution.

does anyone have any ideas as to how the french revolution and quangtech might be linked?

How random can the connections be?

Personally, I'd focus on hats- and jobs that are defined by their hats (or crowns) to the point where the hat is the focus of power, at the expense of the person wearing it (ie, the crown as a symbol being overthrown, and incidentally chopping off the aristo's heads, which happen to be wearing them)

"On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat."

The poem of course, has a much nicer outcome than the revolution. The Quangle Wangles hat becomes the basis of a community rather than the reverse. Of course, this is an incredibly lacking in detail, what with it being an unplanned response.

I suggest several weeks obsessing about nursery rhymes and the revolution (however dubious the connections!) and then throw in a few fish puns.

[www.nonsenselit.org]
[www.rhymes.org.uk]
[www.jasperfforde.com]

Quangtech is the nasty corporation that featured in Jasper Fforde's Fourth Bear novel.

Jack Spratt is the detective from the above novel. Yes. That Jack Spratt, the one from the nursery rhyme, who's wife could eat no lean.

Jack and Jill? Nursery rhyme, yes. But not the Jack we're looking for in connection to Quangtech.

French Revolution? Maybe in the Jack and Jill nursery rhyme, when Jack "broke his crown" it symbolizes the breaking of the French monarchy???

Really reaching here.....

<grin> The fact that this question was posted here means Quangtech is a known quantity, lol.

Random trawling offers this, just for fun- both Edward Lear (who wrote the quangle wangle's hat) and the french revolution are both mentioned.

[www.fullbooks.com]

thankyou so much for that.
i love the hat/crown idea

I know that integrity is important but is there really a lot of emphasis in the exam on the logical coherence of the script? I've taught HSC drama in NSW and the individual performance is judged on the person performing rather than the material and I'd be wary of spending too much effort on the script - if it's coherent enough to get you from A to Z then that's fine: voice, tension, body language, movement, timing, face, etc, are what are going to get you the marks.

Quangtech was big busi-ness

Big profits earn-ed he

Contracts with the government

All made a whopping fee



But one day quangtech stumbled

And corruption did we see

The lawyers placed a guillotine

On the neck of King Louie-ee



Stock price fell down

And broke it's crown

With jail time sentencing after

Nice jingle. It also describes the careers of several recent prominent Australian businessmen.

i love the hyme shakespeare. its awesome

Actually, I think there is a connection through hats. French colonisation of North America (New France) was driven in part by the fur trade, particularly beaver. France then lost New France to Britain in 1759, a war which increased France's national debt, which itself contributed to the Revolution.

I'm sure that somewhere in the Hudson's Bay Company Archives you will find transfer of the control of the fur trade to QuangTech when the HBC diversified in the 20th century, but I don't think the archives have been fully indexed yet so you might have to wait a bit.

maybe you could do something with tumbled/tumbrils. louis fell first and lost his crown, and marie took a tumbril after.

One might use the negative technique as utilised in mathemtics and logic, namely if you can show the negative of some proposition is 'true' then the proposition must be false.

How about starting with the fact that none of them get a mention in 'Biggles and the Black Flight' and work out from there?

Oh, 'House in the woods'

Your explanation has just solved the problem I have been wrestling with for thirty years since I walked through Paris one evening - namely the amount of beaver that was available in some streets. This must have been the fur trading district of Gay (in the happy sense) Raree.

Sorry I meant 'Gay Paree' - I am beginning to suffer dyslexia of the fingers, caused I think, by the consumption of too much Fruity Lexia.

There are soooo many dirty jokes in that... I'm glad my censor is on duty tonight!

What sort of intellectual environment is it? Do they expect a thoughtful, conceptual common mechanism, or just hats? Is it an excercise in imagination or logic? What do they want from you? Think about that.

Anyone remember "Leave It To Beaver"?
The family surname was Cleaver, so the Jerry Mathers character was Beaver Cleaver.
I also remember a cartoon character called Bucky Beaver - I think he was in a toothpaste ad.

Bunyip, you could have just gone back in and edited your Paree/ Raree. Doing a whole new entry is (drum-role)

...a long way to retype a raree.

So exactly what role did the drum play in this?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

So... this is the second time this subject has arisen - is Quangtech now on the official Drama sylabus? or are you both in the same class?

Rob

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