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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Flat KimberleyWas a feminist spin on Flat Stanley that we did when I was about 8. I was chuffed to bits as I got to play Arthur the brother and co-star. I spent a whole lunch time lording it over the plebs who had to be prop makers or back stagers. Till I found out what I had to do.
In the final scene of the play Flat Kimberely and Arthur foil some museum burglers. She was disgiused as a painting and I for some fetishistic reason of the drama teacher had to be a greek statue. A naked greek statue.
You remember that nightmare when you're in front of the school completely naked? I came damn close to living it. OK so i did get to wear shorts but I was the kid who would get changed under a towel for PE, so it was pretty much the same thing.
I had to go on stage, stand on a box and strike a kind of discus thrower pose for what seemed like an hour (2 mins) till the burglers had done their part. Then I could go behind a piece of scenery, quickly put on a gown and do the last 5 mins. That was the theory but one of the backstage plebs had "forgot" to put the robe there so I had to do it still in just my shorts. Cue much downstaging and hiding behind the fat policeman.
That was the last time I ever acted. Still traumatised to this day.
Greenland Middle school in Sheffield if anyone remembers.
(, Fri 27 Mar 2009, 23:00, Reply)
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