Nativity PlaysEvery year the little kids at schools all over get to put on a play. Often it's christmas themed, but the key thing is that everyone gets a part, whether it's Snowflake #12 or Mary or Grendel (yes, really).
Personally I played a 'Rich Husband' who refused to buy matches from some scabby street urchin. Never did see her again...
Who or what did you get to be? And what did you have to wear?
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chthonic, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 17:45)
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Oh god no....I remember, in my primary school there was a distinct heirachy for nativity plays. First off, you have the two kids who play Mary and Joseph. Then, slightly down the rung you get the Angel Gabriel - then the wise men, the shepards and finaly the donkey and animals in the manger. Then you have the slightly strange kid who no-one shares stationary with who gets the all important job of pulling the rope to begin the play, opening the curtains. Way, way below him you get the sheep. Who get one, five second part playing a damn sheep.
Now when I was at school I attended with my younger brother, a year below me. For some (slightly justified) reason the headteacher decided we where basicaly agents of satan. It might have something to do with the time my brother snuck a chicken in, it might be because of the gladiator style fights I used to arrange between the younger years at break, it might even have been because of my young fumbling steps at graffiti. I remember my dad mentioning that we where "still talked about" in the staffroom - just after a parents evening for my sister who also went there, some three years after I left. (looking back on it, I remember feeling quite hard done by.... much more so than I should have).
Anyway, given these various crimes and such- what part did I always get? The damn sheep. And even then I was told off for baa-ing during rehearsal and putting the angel gabriel off his lines. Bastards.
(, Thu 26 Mar 2009, 20:26, Reply)
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