In my elementary school play of Cinderella. I was cast as a pile of animated clothes. My role was to lay still and then suddenly spin around like one of those spinning brushes in a carwash and flail off the stage.
She must be unhinged
Submitted 6 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/8978371c-dc31-46c2-a2a3-7986db59ef0b.webp
Comments
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah I tripped, knocked a stage light over, and burned everything to the ground. I was the only survivor.
Was called the “Tragic Cinderella Sizzler” by local newspapers.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
It’s a school activity, why isn’t the school paying for the materials
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because this is America. I had to buy a history textbook in high school. Good thing we have enough money for a genocide though /s
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s most likely a private school.
superkret@feddit.org 6 months ago
“Private school” is what Basic Training should be called.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And why is a school doing a nativity.
I’m Christian and have taken part in dozens of nativity, but none at school.
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Many (but not all) private schools in the US are religious. From elementary school through college I attended Catholic affiliated schools. This sort of display would not be allowed at most public schools, and the ones that would allow it would be sued.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Door? At the nativity? Did they finally got a room on the b&b?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe she’s the door the innkeeper slams in their faces.
shundi82@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Eiri@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I thought casting students as inanimate objects or plants only happened in TV shows.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
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.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s a mathematical reality if you want to give every kid in a class a role.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 6 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.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 6 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.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 months ago
What the hell is nativity
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s a major plot point for the Jesus fandom.
webpack@ani.social 6 months ago
it’s like the birth of Jesus Christ type sh, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
They couldn’t add an extra animal in the manger?
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
All this overfishing man
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So she should dress up like Jim Morrison? Odd for a nativity scene but whatever.
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 6 months ago
“I come with the stench of pre-bottled blood of the new born on my breath, & enough peyote to last until the rapture! Now where’s that lil dude? Need somebody to light my fire!”
5oap10116@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This better be a private school
can@sh.itjust.works 6 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.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t knock it
0ops@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’ll wait to see if the kid can swing it
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
She’ll be a-door-able.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 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.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 months ago
… With cardboard and string.
Thanks. Appreciate the assist
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One does not merely turn their child into a door.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 months ago
google door costume
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
will at least she’ll finally have the right wing weirdos advocating for her empowerment.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Unbecredible@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Let’s go!
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Get in there!
Surp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
[deleted]baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 6 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
Valmond@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mother slams.
potpotato@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Buckshot for Jesus
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Image
spacecadet@lemm.ee 6 months ago
*Too many cooks *