Looking back, my nativities really sucked....
From the time I was 7, I got to be Mary in every Christmas play.

The year we did a normal one? Yup.

The year we did the one with the lower school, except it wasn't really a nativity because it was just the older kids stood in a church reading bits of the Bible while the little ones acted it? Yup.

And the year we did the really weird, musical one? Complete with weirdy operatic-type score for Mary and the Angel written by some woman the school had hired that kept babbling about breathing? Oh yea, you betcha. I had a tape of backing music for that one too. (Despite the fact that that was also Christmas through the ages and I was originally supposed to be Jane Seymour. The silly cow who was supposed to be Mary demanded to switch because she didn't want to sing.)

And before that, I go to be an Australian kid the time we did "Christmas Around the World!" on the logic that I have Australian family, so only I would do (or something), which involved sitting in a freezing cold church hall in December. In shorts and bloody t-shirt. (Cuz thats Australian, not just bloody mental...)

And when we did "Christmas Through the Ages!", I got to be a druid. Definately one of the cooler roles. I got to wear a robe and a fake beard. 6-year old me was pleased :) Especially as it involved standing at the back of the stage with the older kids and singing dirty versions of Christmas carols.

My first year though, I was the angel Gabriel. Or one of the angels anyway. My mum cut up her wedding dress for the costume and everything. And then I got told (about a day before the actual performance, if not that very morning) that "Oh, we've got you down as a shepherd, one of the pretty blond girls is the angel, not you. Wear this tea-towel instead."

My mum was not best pleased at that one.

For the Easter plays though (Catholic school, we got to act out the death of Christ at 10! ^_^) I never once got an interesting part. I either got to narrate, be one of the crowd or do a solo of some god-aweful hymn.

Coming soon: my High-School nativitys (except they weren't really)
(TuftyBee should have been working on, Sat 28 Mar 2009, 11:59, Reply)