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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Perfect spot for a pearoast.I live near a small village in the West Highlands. Local legend has it that some years ago the primary school had a particularly rough kid who had moved up with his parents from Glasgow.
Everyone in the final year of school got a part in the nativity play so that they didn't feel left out, but the teachers were a bit nervous about how this kid would behave. The starring roles should go to the better behaved children, they felt, but the supporting cast also seemed fraught with dangers. Giving him a shepherd's crook sounded like a good way to start a fight, and when they tried him out as a sheep he wouldn't stop shouting "Baa" and trying to butt the Holy Family in the knees.
In the end he was "promoted" to be the Star of Bethlehem, which basically involved standing on a box holding a large cardboard star which had been covered in tinfoil.
On the day of the play the lad did admirably well, until Mary and Joseph were about to receive the Three Wise Men, by which time he was thoroughly bored with proceedings.
Thus it was that as "We Three Kings of Orient Are" droned to a chaotic and tuneless finish and Balthazar stepped forward with his gold tea caddy, the audience was treated to the Star of Bethlehem announcing loudly "Ach! I'm fed up wi' fuckin' twinklin'" and stomping off the stage.
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