One does not merely turn their child into a door.
rough way to tell parents that their child is as dumb as a doorknob
I thought it was a-door-able
Unfortunately the other kids will call her a “door-k” for the rest of the school year.
*Too many cooks *
I thought casting students as inanimate objects or plants only happened in TV shows.
No no. I was a tree as a child too. I don’t remember what the play was.
Not to brag, but I was the only tree with a line.
It’s a mathematical reality if you want to give every kid in a class a role.
Take some liberties: for one, it’s a manger, add animals. For two, it’s a work of fiction, add aliens, or Wookies, or robots. For three, the whole point is to have kids feel included and be interested, so add MDMA or something.
With 30 kids there’s still probably 15 playing animals already.
You think anyone cares how many “animals” are on stage?
If they can’t creatively figure out how to give everyone a part they can be excited about, then they have no business producing the show. I mean, a fucking door? Pathetic.
With enough mdma, I’d love to be a door. Grab my knob and twist it. Slam me shut, daddy.
I just thought that in real life, when they were out of on-stage roles, other children would do something else. But then again if the children are, like, 7, it’s not like you can assign ALL the jobs to them.
I hadn’t thought about it. But then again, I never did any sort of play at school.
Come on, Billy, you need to bulk up by mid December so you’re heavy enough to pull the rope that opens the curtains! The entire play depends on you!
No dress rehearsal today, it’s the stage manager’s nap time, go practice your lines for a few hours.
I was a dead alien in our primary schools’ production of Men In Black.
My role was to go limp in a chair and let one of my classmates mockingly wave my corpse limbs around in lieu of dancing.
Don’t knock it
I’ll wait to see if the kid can swing it
will at least she’ll finally have the right wing weirdos advocating for her empowerment.
In high school, I was in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (I was act 2 open fairy/Peasblossom) and the absolute best part was the play in a play, Wall spoke her lines and flapped off stage like an enormous bat, funniest part of the whole play.
… With cardboard and string.
Thanks. Appreciate the assist
May I direct you to this video?
Let’s go!
Get in there!
I was once a wrapped box (present) in a play.
So she should dress up like Jim Morrison? Odd for a nativity scene but whatever.
What the hell is nativity
It’s a major plot point for the Jesus fandom.
it’s like the birth of Jesus Christ type sh, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus
This actually brought back bad memories for me. Depressing stuff follows:
I went to a private school and had the same teacher for all six years. He hated me for multiple reasons and a lot of things he did to me would be considered just plain abusive today. It was bad to the point that my parents, who didn’t understand the issue, only figured it out when my mom ran into a schoolmate of mine years later in a supermarket and she told my mother that she felt so bad for me because of how he treated me.
Anyway, one of the first signs of this was that in first grade, we were going to do a winter puppet show for the parents. Like I said, this was a private school. It was split into grades 1-3 and grades 4-6, so we’re talking like 10 kids here. I was super excited because I have always loved performing. He knew I was super excited. So he cast me as… snowflakes. I had to hold up too snowflakes on sticks and move them around. I was absolutely crushed.
The good part is that as an adult, I’ve been paid to do standup and have done some critically well-received VO work (for some names you would recognize but I’m not going to say, sorry).
So fuck him.
Anyway, not your fault, I just had to let that out.
Back to the fun.
Mother slams.