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Does it bother you if your child doesn't get a speaking role in school play?

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I've just heard a couple of mothers in work getting genuinely upset because their children don't have anything to say in their forthcoming nativity plays.

At my niece's school every single child is given at least one line, which I think is nice.

I'm just wondering if many parents get annoyed or upset if their child is just a tree or something and doesn't have any lines?

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PeterParker957

I was banned from auditioning to be Our Lady as I was left handed!

I ended up being a sheep.

lawred2

I'd burn it down. Burn it all down.

Hannibal_Smith

PeterParker957 wrote: »

I was banned from auditioning to be Our Lady as I was left handed!

I ended up being a sheep.

Banned for even auditioning ???? :eek: Did they think Our Lady was going to pay the inn keeper by cheque :pac:

Purple Mountain

In the film Love Actually, Emma Thompson 's child had the part of a lobster in the nativity..
Don't think it was a talking lobster mind you..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9chdp8izEtk

Ipso

Maybe they could have 15 shepherds and 20 wise men and they all get to say hello.

The_Valeyard

Remember being one of the seven dwarfs, dont remember that in the nativity story, maybe its what it was missing the whole time

PeterParker957

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

PeterParker957 wrote: »

I was banned from auditioning to be Our Lady as I was left handed!

I ended up being a sheep.

Banned for even auditioning ???? :eek: Did they think Our Lady was going to pay the inn keeper by cheque :pac:

Nuns. 70s. Nuff said!!!!

JamBur

I was a signpost in my Nativity play....

AnneFrank

Only the girls can have lines, because the boys are all bullies/misogynists

Rubberchikken

This stuff only bothers the parents and unless pointed out to a kid it probably doesn't enter their heads.
Not every child wants to do something like this. Some are happy to leave it up to the drama crowd in schools who just love showing off their 'talent.

blueser

Rylie Large Bow wrote: »

One of the mothers is thinking of 'having a word with the teacher' :eek:

She needs to get out and get herself laid enjoy herself a bit more.

super_furry

Purple Mountain wrote: »

In the film Love Actually, Emma Thompson 's child had the part of a lobster in the nativity..
Don't think it was a talking lobster mind you..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9chdp8izEtk

Yeah and her husband was trying to ride his secretary, so basically if your kid doesn't speak in the play, your family is going to break up.

CelticRambler

We never had nativity plays in my day, so no-one got to say anything ...

RocketRaccoon

My daughter is only in playschool, she was told the other day that she's playing a star in her upcoming play and has to sing twinkle twinkle. There's more chance of her moonwalking across the stage than singing that song in front of people, she is far too shy but the teachers don't seem to have copped on to that.

Ted Plain

I remember we did one and I got a part as a duck. A non-quacking duck at that. No idea what the play was.

retro:electro

Well I'm still suffering from ptsd when I had to play the tin whistle in my play and i pissed myself on stage. With every blow a little more wiz came out.
I should have gotten a standing ovation.

_Dara_

My first Christmas concert was on the night of the Lockerbie bombing. The show was getting underway around the time it happened. I was up on stage being an elf whilst other poor people were brutally shuffling off stage left. Happy Christmas, everybody!

RayM

In various primary school plays, I played one of the three wise men, a narrator, an elf, an ugly sister, a news reporter, a tree and an inn keeper. The tree was the most challenging - I was something of a method actor back then (my influences included Day Lewis, De Niro and Brando), so I prepared for the role by standing in the garden for three whole months leading up to the performance.

The inn keeper was my favourite role because I got to do a bit of improv when the boy playing Joseph forgot his lines and ran off the stage crying. My 'improv' involved asking the boy who played Mary (this was an all boys school), "so, when are you due?" I thought it was a sensible thing to say to someone who's about to have a baby, but the parents and teachers found it hilarious.

snowflaker

Three boys in my class, we were always kings...

suicide_circus

flatty wrote: »

My young lad was a rock one year. Not joking.

So proud

Akrasia

My little girl was Mary in the play last year. Who wants to see the video? (I show it to everyone)

PandaPoo

I'd rather my kids didn't have a speaking part. Too much pressure. My son was one of the wise men last year, he had 1 line and that was more than enough. He was only 6 though.

tomwaterford

I went to a small school,like 5 people in my class iirc

My da has a sheepfarm.....I was a shepherd every single year ▪_▪

The Pheasant2

Ted Plain wrote: »

I remember we did one and I got a part as a duck. A non-quacking duck at that. No idea what the play was.

Honk! ?

[Deleted User]

I played Mary once and “gave birth” to Jesus. Basically was sitting down in the makeshift barn and picked up a doll under a blanket that was behind me. Of course then every Mother in the audience says “Shur if only it was that easy!” ....10 year old me was mortified.

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tomwaterford wrote: »

I went to a small school,like 5 people in my class iirc

My da has a sheepfarm.....I was a shepherd every single year ▪_▪

That reminds me of my sons nativity. One family ran a donkey sanctuary. Yep. They brought a donkey but of course only their little darling could ride it and her brother got to lead it onstage. It stole the show by dropping it’s load (not the Virgin Mary).

They did Robin Hood the following year.

lawred2

Deleted User wrote: »

That reminds me of my sons nativity. One family ran a donkey sanctuary. Yep. They brought a donkey but of course only their little darling could ride it and her brother got to lead it onstage. It stole the show by dropping it’s load (not the Virgin Mary).

They did Robin Hood the following year.

urm I used to live in a village which had a donkey sanctuary.. I remember at the time being told it was the only one in Ireland (which could have been untrue)

are there others or are is this the same sanctuary?

RayM

lawred2 wrote: »

urm I used to live in a village which had a donkey sanctuary.. I remember at the time being told it was the only one in Ireland (which could have been untrue)

are there others or are is this the same sanctuary?

There's one in Bray.

(There's not, but there should be)

Lorelli!

RayM wrote: »

In various primary school plays, I played one of the three wise men, a narrator, an elf, an ugly sister, a news reporter, a tree and an inn keeper. The tree was the most challenging - I was something of a method actor back then (my influences included Day Lewis, De Niro and Brando), so I prepared for the role by standing in the garden for three whole months leading up to the performance.

I also played a tree in Hansel and Gretel. It was the only play I was ever in.

Somebody actually said the trees were the best part about the play. It may have been my mam

retro:electro

RayM it's been about two hours and I'm still laughing at you asking "when are you due"