8th April, 2009 - Ten Random Thoughts About Primary School #6

The coolest thing we ever did at Primary School was devise our own nativity play with a drama teacher from the local college. We worked out ways to represent the Roman soldiers close in on the Baby Jesus, and we came up with our own lines and I can remember as clear as day it dawning on me what “symbolism” was. I didn’t use that word of course, but the idea of the abstract – of something representing something else – woke up inside me as the Roman soldiers lowered their spears towards the cradle, just before the doll was snatched and spirited off to Egypt.