• Eiri@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I thought casting students as inanimate objects or plants only happened in TV shows.

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        2 months ago

        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.

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          2 months ago

          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!

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        2 months ago

        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.

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            2 months ago

            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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I was a wiseman in a public school Christmas thing. Even that young it felt a little weird but I had such little exposure to religion that I went along with it. If I had been any older I would have known to step down from my role and be a door.

  • Surp@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Who fucking cares sometimes someone’s gotta do the shit role like being the rock that someone pulls the sword out of. Stop trying to make these battle of the sexs constantly happen. Love each other fuck these overly assumingly sensitive weirdos.

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      2 months ago

      Where do you see a battle of the sexes? I just see the emphasis placed on the door costume, and the very exaggerated excited tone