The Most Evil Granny In France: The Motion Picture

Right you are: the third and final (so far) installment in the continuing adventures of Herietta Raes, the most evil Granny in France. This is the most recent and was done with a CYT group of 10 - 12 year olds. The idea to tell the story of the story of the story of the Most Evil Granny In France was coined by one of my shining lights who will one day go onto be extremely famous while I am living in the gutter collecting cans so I can afford Famous Magazine.

This group had some participants with very keen comic timing and slapstic skills, which really kept the script, which is batshit insane, bounding along. There were early ideas that the entire play would be set in a toilet, and that there would be a dog playing a Judge. While the toilet and judge didn't make it through, the dog dig, as did an extremely important healthy eating message.


The Most Evil Granny In France: The Motion Picture

Too Many Nannas

Next up, the continuing adventures of Henrietta Raes, the true life most evil Granny in France. This one was written with a slightly older group than the last one (below!), and is also insane. This was a bit of give and take between us -- most of the character names and Clouseau ripoffs are mine, but the Bingo Caller character was created by one of the young people, who knew exactly what part they were destined to play. There are some great moments that you just can't relay in a script, such as the slapstick business the French police got into, the magnificent gold cloak the lawyer wore, or that fact that The Waiter had rollerskates built into his shoes. This all happened some time in 2009, and the group were great fun to work with

TOO MANY NANNAS

The Case Of The Least Suspicious Granny In France

For whatever reason today I decided that this blog I haven't told anyone about is the best place to post up all of the plays I create with my CYT drama groups. To that end, this is first of three short plays written with different Canberra Youth Theatre 10 - 12 drama groups, based on a newspaper article about Henrietta Raes, "the most evil Granny in France". It was brainstormed, improvised, and finally scripted over a single week in the school holidays sometime in 2008.

THE CASE OF THE LEAST SUSPICIOUS GRANNY IN FRANCE!