Mai des langues – 話す肖像画たち

「2025年ことばの5月祭」の一環として、京都国際フランス学園のターミナル（高校最終学年）の生徒たちは、英語での独創的なプロジェクトに取り組みました。プロジェクトは、スピーキング、クリエイティブ・ライティング、そして権力の表象に対する批判的視点を組み合わせたものです。

生徒たちは象徴的な王室の肖像画をもとに、歴史に語らせるというユニークな方法を想像しました。王権の表現に使われる伝統的なコードをあえて逸脱しながら、王や王族のメンバーに新たなモノローグや対話を通じて声を与えました。

これらの英語で書かれたテキストは、公式な肖像画がしばしば伝える固定されたイメージから離れ、親密で、風変わりで、あるいは日常的な思考を探求しています。このプロジェクトは、個人的な表現、歴史的な考察、言語的なスキルを融合させ、しばしば驚きを与えるような「声に出して演じる」取り組みとなっています。

以下に生徒たちの作品をご紹介します。言葉を語るこれらの肖像画に、きっと驚かされることでしょう。

Queen Victoria’s Monologue

Par Eden

Queen Victoria is reflecting about her role as her mother and a queen and complains about her husband not helping.

The house dog

Par Hugo

The family has bought a new dog and the children are having an argument about who gets to name it.

Respect in the Royal Family ?

Par Kyo

Conversation between Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark about football games, where Alexandra is quite uniformed about. (English is not her mother tongue!) Thus Edward points out that she’s pretty so she can not be intelligent, besides he mentions how she has to suck in her stomach, to get skinnier, etc. because for him he is “superior” than women, hence she is just an “accessory” for him even though she is the queen.

Little Lady

Par Lila

Three year old Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips, pictured attending the polo match at Smith’s Lawn Polo Ground in Windsor.Here she is pictured playing peekaboo over the Royal fence. 17th June 1984.
Zara is in the garden with her family. The little boys are running around and Zara wants to join them.

The royals’ grandparents who are arguing

Par Lilou

It’s the first time that Queen Mary and King George VI come to meet the little prince Charles Philip Arthur George and his parents. The grandparents are excited, they want the baby’s attention. Elizabeth invites her parents-in-law to come to sit down for the picture with their grandson.

A Girl’s Hobby

Par Naomie

Girls only need to act elegantly and be helpful around the house, whereas boys are free to take up any hobbies they want.

Henry VIII’s diplomatic meeting

Par Gabriel

King Henry VIII is having à diplomatic meeting with King Phillip the 2nd of Spain, with both royal families present. During the meeting between both kings, Henry VIII’s child Mary I is disturbing the scene by constantly asking questions to her father. Elizabeth 1 and Edward VI, the king’s other children, try to make Mary shut up. The scene unfolds…

Bad hair day?

Par Naoko

Girls can be sporty and boys can be passionate.