Title: Black Banner Abroad
Author: Geoffrey Trease
Publisher: Girls Gone By
Date: 2006
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
Series: Black Banner series, number 4
Description
Here are the excitements and humours of a school-journey to the South of France, the glamour which goes with stage-lighting and grease-paint, besides an unusual problem in amateur detection and the very human little dramas of modern boy-and-girl friendship which this author understands so well.
In this book the combined schools drama society, the Black Banner Players, take their production of Shakespeare to an open-air theatre in Provence. Bill and Tim, Penny and Sue are there. Mr. Kingsford, the gruff head-master, still spars with Miss Florey, the head-mistress. But new characters enter too, with considerable dramatic effect – especially Gigi, the school-girl from Paris. The scene changes from the Lake District to the brightly-coloured background of Provence, with its vineyards and cypresses, gay café-sunblinds and ancient ruins white against the dazzling blue of the sky.
