One year I was just one of the bog standard angels, but the child who was playing the Angel Gabriel was off sick on the night, and I was promoted to that role. I had to stand in a corner backstage, as I kept knocking people over with my huge wings.
One year I was just one of the bog standard angels, but the child who was playing the Angel Gabriel was off sick on the night, and I was promoted to that role. I had to stand in a corner backstage, as I kept knocking people over with my huge wings.
I don't remember doing a nativity play - but I do remember us doing Jonah and the Whale, in which I played . . . .god! Seriously. I remember that I got told off as I looked 'too cross' with Jonah during rehersals
I was a blonde Angel too ............I seem to remember doing some of the narrating too .........I was good at multi tasking.
I always fancied being Mary but as someone has already confirmed - Mary had brown hair - Angels blonde (sometimes Angels could have brown hair but they were less 'important' angels - slightly sub standard)
(Actually did, crouched behind a box...stagefright, I think. Which is odd cos I went on to do some acting when older; including playing Jesus in a school review!)
Angels, as winged humanoids, never appear anywhere in the bible. In fact, in biblical scripture Angels are some of the most fearsome and destructive creatures ever to be put into literature.
The winged humanoid vision of Angels is one formed during the romanticism of the renaissance.
I was the angel Gabriel. I always thought it was because I was pretty and blonde, but actually having read this I now think it was probably because I was fearsome and destructive:D
I was supposed to ring a bell and shout "Unclean". They couldn't find a bell - so I had to walk round tapping one of those little school orchestra triangles.
I was in Primary school in late 60s/early 70s and it was unheard of to have the whole class in the Nativity, so I never had a part. I was the North Wind in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. On a side note, Angel Gabriel was always played by the prettiest girl in the school. I had quite a shock when aged 17 I found out that she was actually a "he"!!
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My school was Catholic but a bit weird.
Come to think of it, I can't remember there ever being Nativity plays in any of my schools.
I played Caspar, the second of the three kings, every year except for once when I was the narrator.
I always fancied being Mary but as someone has already confirmed - Mary had brown hair - Angels blonde (sometimes Angels could have brown hair but they were less 'important' angels - slightly sub standard)
(Actually did, crouched behind a box...stagefright, I think. Which is odd cos I went on to do some acting when older; including playing Jesus in a school review!)
After that I was in the choir every year!
I was the angel Gabriel. I always thought it was because I was pretty and blonde, but actually having read this I now think it was probably because I was fearsome and destructive:D
The teachers obviously saw promise in the 9-year-old me.
I was Herod when I was about 6 and a shepherd (although I pronounced it 'pesherd') at Sunday School.
All I remember are the musical plays in secondary school (Tom Sawyer, Theseus & the Minotaur). I was always in the choir; never had a starring role.
I was also the percussion a few years.
Oh yes! We used to have brilliant end-of-year plays from our four houses at senior school.
I wasn't in any of those either.
I was supposed to ring a bell and shout "Unclean". They couldn't find a bell - so I had to walk round tapping one of those little school orchestra triangles.