Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Niamh O'Gorman - Widow Twankey's Story


STORY

The Scoil Nioclais play ‘Aladdin’ preformed by the students of Mr Moyninhan’s 4th Class origanally began around Christmas time 2008, with the school drama teacher Irene Warren as the director. We practised during our school drama class time. At first it wasn’t going too well and Irene was thinking about closing the show. Then at one of our final lessons we suddenly preformed better than ever. The show was back on! We performed at Christmas and it was a huge hit, all our parents came to see it and they loved it. Irene was very proud of us. A few months later we were asked to participate in a compitition against other Schools who were also doing plays, most of them secondary schools. We added some songs and a few new lines to make it look better and to make it longer. The songs in it were called Aladdin, washing and scrubbing, Abanazar the kind and genie. We had to practice for it after school on Mondays Wednsdays and Fridays until the day of the first show in Deerpark secondary school on the 10th of March 2009. We were told to wear lots of make-up on stage beacause of the lights. We were all quite nevous at first but when we got on stage. We really enjoyed ourselves. We must have done a great job because we came fourth out of all the schools that preformed. We got a Trophy for it. Vika got a best actress award. The next time we preformed was in the school halla on the 3rd of April 2009 (the last day before the easter holidays) for most of the school. We were Introduced by Ms Kenny. We didn’t have to wear make-up then because there was no lights on stage. The last time we preformed was on the 15th of May 2009 in Ringaskiddy community hall and we preformed Aladdin for the last time, and guess what? You won’t believe it we ……..WON. We came first in the most Important out of all our preformances.
And that’s how it all happened. That’s how the Scoil Nioclais play Aladdin was born.