Christmas Plays

Firetrap

Tis getting to the time of the year when rehearsals are taking place for the Christmas play. Where would national school be without this institution? The primary school I went to was an all girls one so we only did a school Christmas concert every second year; we alternated with the boys school down the road. God knows how much the nuns made from our concert - they refused to spend money on a PA system so anyone sitting more than half a dozen seats from the stage never got to hear a thing. Probably a good thing.

I don't remember a lot about the play we did in baby infants other than my teacher losing her temper with me big time when I got fed up of having to rehearse my lines over and over and refused to say them anymore. I also knew even at the tender age of four that standing with my hands clasped over my head did not make me look like a tree. In the end, I was relegated to a non-speaking role.

The other Christmas plays down the years were ho-hum til 6th class when we did A Christmas Carol. One of the teachers came up with the ingenious idea of putting a little doorway over the mantelpiece of Scrooge's fireplace. It was supposed to be a clever way of Marley's ghost appearing to Scrooge. Unfortunately, it turned out to be an unintentionally funny moment and it invariably got a huge laugh from the parents when the door opened and Marley poked his head through.

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We did line dancing one year.