The Siege Of Calais: Review

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Siege of Calais: Review
The Siege of Calais play that was performed at GIHS in the PAC. The performers used costumes to represent the people of France and England in the Siege of Calais.
The English are running out of food because the French are cutting off their supply routes. The English the surrender to get their supply routes back. The French want 6 hostages, all men, with white shirts and rope around their necks to arrive by sunset the English then send 5 men and 1 boy, all of them having a high place in society. The French thought that the English were going to send people with a low place in society. The hostages arrived and when they did the French king was going to kill the boa swell as but the French queen wanted to save the boy.

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