Is this familiar to anyone?

You were towards the back of the audience at a school nativity play. I hope that you didn't take any pictures of you'll have to go to prison!

Hmm that suspiciously sounds like the Christmas school nativity play? Am I right or am I right, ok and yes I am sure you are not the only one. When I used to work in a primary school we used to get a lot of disgruntled relations complaining about the seating arrangement and not being able to see their children or grandchildren for the heads blocking out most of the scene let alone what they had come all the way to see! The only consolation is that afterwards the child knows that you came for them and apart from telling them a few white lies about how good they were when you spent the hour watching people in front of you fidget, cough and even unwrap sweets! It's a great shame because of all the work the children do to rehearse their lines. And it's not if you can record on them any more as most schools have banned camcorders and cameras because of strict ruling about photographing children, ridiculous I know. So I do sympathise with you dear friend.

I'm guessing you were at the nativity and yes, it's very familiar. :)

This is a very familiar situation to me. You were probably in an overheated and overcrowded school hall watching one of those productions which endeavour to cram the whole school from tots to pre-teens onto one stage at a time in order to present the story of Christmas. Although the Bible itself does not record the presence of livestock at the birth of Jesus, such productions are inclined to include a whole zoo and a chorus of angels such as would make the organ loft of Heaven itself creak. Many schools, I gather, no longer do the Christmas story (due to multicultural elements) and choose something like "Peter Pan" or "The Wriggly Caterpillar's Adventures in Compost Land". The common element is always the large cast, the songs (with unintelligible words) accompanied on the piano and the Recorder group and, except for a few children usually acting as narrator, the sub voce dialogue.

I would say the School Christmas Play???????? As I used to have that Problem to I saw more of other Peoples Heads then the actual Play lol