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

c68zapdsm5i1ru

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?

uck51js9zml2yt

I picket the school when mine doesn't get a speaking part.

SEPT 23 1989

they must have very little to worry about

Aglomerado

I had a speaking part in mine circa 1988.

Third Shepherd: "Hey! Jeremiah! Wait for me!" (Exit stage)

The most poorly behaved boy in the class was given the part of GOD's voice. :D because it meant he could be backstage and therefore not drawing attention to himself.

A lot of the assignment of parts was politics in our school, whose parents the teacher was friendly with (Mary and Joseph), who were the messers (God, Third Shepherd) etc.

We didn't have trees though. It was all tea towels and dressing gowns.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

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

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Pac1Man

The kids may not want a line. I was quite happy being a quiet shepherd.

Still stole the show. How I wore the tea-towel spoke to the crowd in a way which words simply could not.

Dravokivich

To be honest, you could be putting some pressure on a kid who isn't confident enough in doing it in the first place. Some kids don't even like doing it. Just let them have a bit of time on the side of the stage.

Carra 8

I wouldn't allow mine in a play if I had kids

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Permabear wrote: »

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I've no idea. At my niece's school so many of the children mumble their line reluctantly that no one can hear what they're saying. Some children are just not natural performers and would probably be just as happy being in a crowd scene with their parents waving from the audience.

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cantdecide

Participation medals... be grand

whoopsadoodles

Ah stop.

Annoyed over a nativity play?

The kids are destined for disaster of their parents are upset about some thing so petty. Janey mackers.

whoopsadoodles

Rylie Large Bow wrote: »

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

Well, her child is going to have a tough aul life when he realises that mummy can't sort out all of life's problems for him.

Fcuk me. I dunno.

tupenny

I know plenty of those parents.
Heard 1 moan last xmas as her son didnt get to open a window on the advent calendar in the classroom.
Its amazing to witness how pathetic they can be.
Gotta pity their kids really, stupid crap like that bothering the parents more than the kid

whoopsadoodles

Imagine saying to your child "that's a sh*t part, why did the teacher give you such a sh*t part?" :pac:

Burial.

It takes skill to be a tree in the corner.

Hannibal_Smith

I'd love a mother in the school to say this to me. I'd laugh in her face :pac:

Lux23

It would depend on the kid; if I felt they were talented and the teacher was acting the maggot then I might be annoyed. I wouldn't do anything about it though, it would only embarrass the child.

whoopsadoodles

Lux23 wrote: »

It would depend on the kid; if I felt they were talented and the teacher was acting the maggot then I might be annoyed. I wouldn't do anything about it though, it would only embarrass the child.

Talented though?
It's a school nativity. Not auditions for the X Factor!

Pac1Man

"You look like a sheep, you sound like a sheep, you have a big future ahead of you."

flatty

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

whoopsadoodles

flatty wrote: »

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

:pac:

I love it

branie2

I was the narrator of the Nativity play one year

whoopsadoodles

branie2 wrote: »

I was the narrator of the Nativity play one year

Good for you branie.

2015 was it?

Hammer89

Rylie Large Bow wrote: »

At my niece's school every single child is given at least one line

Is that for the nerves?

optogirl

Rylie Large Bow wrote: »

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

FFS - I taught drama in a primary school for a year. You wouldn't believe the amount of Mammies & Daddies coming up to tell me that their little darling wanted to be X part or Y part in the end of school play. Oh do they? You should have said. I didn't realise your child was more important than the others :mad:

Boom_Bap

These are probably the parents that yap throughout the play until it's their child's part and they demand everyone else ssssshhhhhhhhh'ssssss

branie2

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Good for you branie.

2015 was it?

1988

Dravokivich

branie2 wrote: »

1988

I take it David Attenborough won't be ****ting himself so.

Badly Drunk Boy

I'd have been horrified if I had to be in a show. In fifth class of primary school, I was forced to be the back end of a donkey. At 44, I'm still not right.

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