It’s that time of year once again where overly nervous and competitive children come out of the shadows and rise up for their shot at stardom – in the Christmas production.
Back when I was a student (which is beginning to feel like decades ago as the teaching career begins to age me), it was my favourite time of the year and yet now, on the staff side, I’m already beginning to dread it.
I had the forethought to go and see the school’s summer production in a local theatre before starting the job and I vividly remember phoning my sister post-show, horrified at what I had just seen – a performance largely surrounding the topic of AIDS, but not in the Band Aid way I’d have hoped of performing arts!
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