"And the winner is... The team from Prilep!" - French theater contest 19th March

The adventure started with a call from the french institute of Skopje :

In order to celebrate the francophonie week, they organised a theater contest for the francophone highs choolers from Macedonia. The topic was « One character, one job », the sketch has to be comic and dynamic and completely played in French.

The scenario speaks about a taxi driver who lives an adventurous day. He first met a crazy couple with a jealous wife yelling at her husband, then a funny ghost who doesn't manage to scare people, and finally he has to deal a nasty gangster who tries to escape from the police.

Five motivated students from a gymnasium decided to enter the competition. It is not easy to play in a different language but after a few weeks of preparation, with the help of myself and the other french volunteer Yoan, they were ready for the show!

Saturday 19th march we left Prilep in the direction towards Skopje. The contest took place at Kej Dimitar Vlahov. At 14h30, all the participating students were ready to play, four other teams were present and we could feel some stage fright in the air. At 15h it was our team's turn and they played very well !

Then the jury took some time to discuss, leaving everyone in suspense. « And the winner is...tadamtadammm... the team from Prilep !!! » It was a very cool and happy moment, and our team completely deserved to win because they are very talented.

Next step : our band will participate in the International and National Festival of Francophone theater in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria which is exciting !

More information :

Link in french

http://www.ifs.mk/fr/Home/FrankofonijaContent/1544

Link in Macedonian

http://www.ifs.mk/mk/Home/FrankofonijaContent/1545

Albane de Lisle