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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Moving on from my 6 year old bitterness...And fast forward to the school pantomime, a production of Babes in the Wood. I was 14, and by now I'd proven myself in enough plays to be trusted with the biggest role in the play - the Nurse.
Yes, 14 year old, overweight, bespectacled me played the panto dame. Classic lines ensued, such as:
"Ooooh! What a conniption!"
"Train journeys just haven't been the same since me piles dropped"
and "OWWWWWWWWW!!! There's an arrow in my bum! Who shot me in the bum! SHERIFF?!?!? I'LL HAVE YOU!!!"
I must mention that I went to an all girls school.
If the lines I had to say weren't humiliating enough, I then had to, as the Nurse, fall crazily in love with the Sheriff of Nottingham. Who was also a girl. To illustrate our love there was a half hidden clinch behind a tree (I'm guessing my drama teacher based it on the Jim Davidson version) and a very touchy-feely song and dance, which took us about 300 practices before we managed to do it without laughing.
Oh yes, and there was the bit where I was 'woken up' and had to wander onto the stage in a pair of granny bloomers.
Those were the days...
(, Sat 28 Mar 2009, 10:00, Reply)
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