Here comes the Nativity play
I've guest blogged this week on School Gate about my daughter's role in the nativity play. The performance is this week and we've got our tickets, set aside the sparkly hair baubles for that morning and have the digital camera at the ready. As for her role in the play, that's another story...
Are your children taking part in a nativity play this year?
No nativity in "separation of church and state" religious USA either (unless you're in church school, presumably), but the church has a children's pageant the Sunday before Christmas, and actually that's where I remember doing nativity plays: Sunday School, not regular school (though we did have school 9 lessons/carols and Christingle services at the local parish church every year).
Posted by: LM | 8 Dec 2008 03:11:37
Caitlin wrote a brilliant article about nativity plays last year: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/caitlin_moran/article3090589.ece
Posted by: Other L | 4 Dec 2008 11:32:59
Oh...this is me!
No nativity in secular France. But a nice afternoon on songs and poems and dancing and suchlike.
However this year the parents are secretly putting on a play for the kids and my husband has the starring role. Not because of his star quality but none of the other village men would stray from macho things like lighting and props.
The question is, will our 3 year old be delighted or mortified...?
Posted by: Claire King | 3 Dec 2008 13:15:44
No nativity in secular France. But a nice afternoon on songs and poems and dancing and suchlike.
However this year the parents are secretly putting on a play for the kids and my husband has the starring role. Not because of his star quality but none of the other village men would stray from macho things like lighting and props.
The question is, will our 3 year old be delighted or mortified...?
Posted by: | 3 Dec 2008 13:14:38
We're quite relieved when we hear our daughter is not playing a 'starring' role in her primary 1 nativity play. She has no fear of standing up in front of people and no fear, shall we say, of talking. We hide under the pews when she 'participates' in childrens' addresses in church. So, let loose in the school play, who knows what she will do?
Posted by: L | 2 Dec 2008 21:45:48
My son's school play is - and isn't - a nativity. The three kings are dressed as Elvis. What else? For the full story - or as full as I know it at the moment - check out: http://potty-diaries.blogspot.com/2008/11/rockin-around-christmas-tree.html
Posted by: Potty Mummy | 2 Dec 2008 16:03:59
My son is one of the kings. I think one of the criteria for being chosen was height. The three tallest boys are the kings. They are performing the Animal's Nativity, thereby ensuring everyone gets a part. I'm actually quite pleased he's a king, the camel costume would be too hard to make.
Posted by: Jo Goff | 2 Dec 2008 14:57:31
we don't do them here, unfortunately. And in our junior school the ballet-children were excluded from school productions on the basis that they "get enough exposure through the ballet school performance"
*rolls eyes*
It must be a nightmare for the teachers though - it puts me in mind of the part in Love Actually where Emma Thompson's character's daughter proudly announces that she's the "first lobster" in the nativity play and the mum says "there was more than one lobster at the birth of Jesus?" and my sides split every time.
Posted by: Sho | 2 Dec 2008 14:28:17
my 4 year old daughter is sheep No. 3....
Posted by: IK | 2 Dec 2008 11:31:28