#84

I was Herod once, someone bought a bowl of water on stage so I could literally wash my hands of Christ. Bit on the nose

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#85

RE some of these posts, my Mum was one of these teachers who puts loads of effort into the school play. Not when I was in her school but years later when she was a deputy and then head somewhere else.
She’s not a monster like some of these anecdotes, but she definitely invested a lot of the school’s and students’ time and energy into what one could accuse of being a vanity project.
There were a few parents involved in the events industry so she always got really high spec tech gear -radio mics and professional lights and staging etc - for free. And our family is full of musicians so she’d always put together a backing band which was basically pro-level.
She was so proud of it all bless her, and would always try and get me to come and watch it (when I wasn’t playing in the band anyway). Obviously the acting and singing was fucking terrible so it’s definitely not something you’d want to do unless you had a kid in it, no matter how high the production values. But she genuinely thought it was a good show in it’s own right and was kind of incredulous that random friends and family members didn’t want to come and see it.

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#86

wasn’t that Pilate anyway?

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#87

Oh shit :grinning:. My C in RE really showing here

Yeah I was pilot

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#88

That’s definitely how you spell it

#89

Rushmore vibes here

#90

Aged about 8 or so I was cast to play an overweight person in a very questionable sketch about an aerobics class. I was an extremely skinny kid so the only thing I could really do, short of building myself a fat suit, was stuff a cushion up my jumper. All the adults kept joking that I looked pregnant, which even at the time I felt was inappropriate. It’s probably better than the alternative of casting the overweight kids to play overweight adults.

#91

oh yeah in Peter Pan in year 6 I played 2 (two) of the lost boys

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#92

The thread has jogged a memory.

When I was 11 we moved from Newcastle to Kent. In my first year at secondary school I was asked to play one of the three wise men - on the premise that they’d travelled a long way and would therefore have had different accents.

Yeah mate, the wise men were geordies.

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#93

wor wise men

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#94

Or more accurately, wor wise gadgies

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#95

My mum was the same, except she was head of dance at our school

#96

For me it was such a massive lifeline socially and in terms of figuring myself out, think I might have been pretty miserable at school without it

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#97

With hindsight I have a lot of sympathy for the teachers who had no idea how to put on a play and had to effectively write, produce and direct an amateur production for which they’d be judged with a group of actors who could still literally shit themselves at any given moment.

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#98

My school put on potentially the worst production of ‘Phantom of the Opera’ ever produced wherein the phantom swore on a radiomic offstage and Christine was played by a classroom assistant which was just weird.

#99

Remember having to perform at the local arts centre in year 3 but it was Morris dancing where girls were paired with boys and everyone was dismayed. Also remember in year 2 or 3 we performed some sort of ABBA musical and I remmeber being like “only?? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:” to the line “only 17” in dancing queen

#100

Jesus Christ I played Prospero in a heavily abridged version of the Tempest for a year10 drama festival, took it really serious as well. No wonder everyone thought I was a dickhead

#101

Oh god I just remembered the school play of A Midsummer Night’s Dream where the very white, very middle aged teacher decided to “update” things by making Puck rap.

Very glad I had no involvement in that one whatsoever.

#102

Probably posted this here before, but whatever.

We won this battle of the bands thing at school playing a few Muse covers. Got asked to play again at the end. Some other band played Plug In Baby in their set and the singer was godawful, so when we played at the end we asked him to sing with us, and we played it too quick.

Young rebellion. It’s terrible.

I am camera left, guitar.

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#103

was nominated for best supporting actor in the yearly house plays for my uncanny portrayal of Terry the Chef from Fawlty Towers, in the episode Waldorf Salad. I did not win.

Chorus member in Joesph and his Technicolour dreamcoat. Only managed one performance as had an allergic reaction to the t-shirts the school had provided for us all. Devastated.