“Page de Potre”
A Family Friendly Production
Main Character:
Paige – 14 year old male.
Beste – Paige’s French immigrant to USA father.
Gayld – 14 year old French male, best friends to Paige.
The story takes opens 1798 upon a ship crossing over the sea to Europe from USA
Page Narte and his father, Beste Narte to sail sea to Italy to visit Page’s grandfather who is dying. (name Nicholas Narte)
His mother and little sister are left at home in Texas. (save the Alamo 1836 with these two actresses later.)
When the ship lands the port has been over taken, they are taken, separated because the war has just broke out. The docks are under siege.
During The French Revolution / War
The French Revolution was a far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
It is partially carried forward by
Fascism / Fashionism / Napoleon
during the later expansion of the French Empire fashion-ism / fascism became
a social status to a rising class of artists.
(fascism and the two women characters, hey they are professional actresses.
They can play any parts.)
Page and Beste Narte become separated at the docks. Page is taken away from his father and put into a camp for boys living strictly as per a ship, treated like on a ship. Paige speaks English and all the other boys speak Bask, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Paige has to toughen up and become a man. Page calls the camp, Potre, a sort of tongue in cheek irony joke that He and his new friend have together about the war camp by the docks. They are set on a ship at any time. This joke gets them thru the hard days and long cold nights. Not much food to eat. They vow never to allow them separated Page and a french boy, Gayld who was also separated from his father. They become best friends.
Suddenly a break into the camp by two men that capture and take out the guards of the camp. They quickly go thru all the camp boys looking for someone. They come to Page. They yell at him, they shake him, they ask him questions in French louder and louder until Gayld intervenes answering the questions for Page, protecting his best friend.
They are all four now about to be caught, the two men, (add Andre and Jewels) and two boys all escape together good fight and out they go into the French night. Page, Gayld, Andre and Julianne. (Jewels)
(humor) later the four must wear socially tight and fancy looking fashion to a social event.
Andre Narte is a fine baker. His bake shop taken over by the Revolution, Andre escapes and has to get to the docks where he was suppose to meet his brother. He finds his brother and they both run, but alas, the brother is killed. Andre must find his Nephew if he is alive. Andre finds the camp and convinces his best friend to help, the best friend Julienne, Jewels break into the camp to get Page out.
The four men/boys escape.
Andre takes over the camp, has Jewels make the camp fire, the boys Page and Gayld look around for food sources and water possibilities.
Andre teaches the boys/men how to cook from scratch. Those who can cook can feed the world and there will be no starvation when you learn how to cook to live.
Andre teaches how to eat from the out doors, they find wild cellandro.
They four live off the land and are happy away from the fighting but they sneak into town often to read the pamplets and know what is going on. They see women being auctioned off as slaves at one of the ‘masters’ parties.
Page’s mother and sister where abducted on ship and held as slaves to be sold at a party in Paris during The French Revolution. They came looking for her husband and son, the sister looking for her brother and father.
(sister and Gayld fall in love) ahhhhhhh young puppy love sweet )
The four Main Characters have to go to that party in tight fancy clothes in order to bid on the women and buy their safety. They have no money. They steal some clothes at a laundry shop and Andre explains how he plans to lie their way into the party as thou they have plenty of gold to spend and want to buy a pretty one or two of the women for sale.
Flash Back in Time: Andre remember…
Andre and Mother meet when he was 14 and she was 13. He liked her, but she was in love with Beste. Andre asked her to run away with him on a ship, but she chose to stay with Beste. She married Beste. Andre is her brother in law. They meet long ago when the family migrated to USA. Andre decided when he was 14 to return to the old country and Beste decided to stay in USA with his parents. Andre secretly left on a ship.
Beste was 16, Andre 14. That’s why Andre feels so close to Page. They have a lot in common, they were much alike when they were 14.
(with English accent)
It’s all very “Cheeky” isn’t it?
In the end, Page (which is pronounced Pay Gay)
goes back to the camp of boys with his best friend and the two men and
together and together with the boys in the camp, they all set each other free.
Close up airiel shot of Page spinning looking up
“We Are Free”
Copyright 2000 me me me me meme again Peggy Penny-all rights reserved-opt out serious serioso
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