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Nativity play

A children's nativity play in Sanok, Poland 2013.

A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is a play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus. It is usually performed at Christmas, the feast of the Nativity.

Liturgical

The term "Nativity Drama" is used by Wellesz[1] in his discussion of the troparion hymns in the Christmas liturgy of Byzantine Rite Churches, from Sophronius in the seventh century. Goldstein argues[2] that the label "drama" is misleading, that the troparia are more akin to an oratorio than a play, and that the form is not a precursor of later more decidedly dramatic forms.

Saint Francis of Assisi performed Midnight Mass in the Italian town of Greccio on Christmas Eve 1223 in front of a life-size nativity scene (crib or creche) built by Giovanni Velita, with live animals. This is the first Nativity play.[3] However, more formal Nativity plays have featured in Christian worship since medieval mystery plays.

The 12th to 19th pageants of the 48-play York Mystery Cycle showcase the Nativity stories. However, the most famous Nativity play is from the medieval Wakefield Cycle The Second Shepherds' Play.

In modern Germany, the Weihnachten services on Christmas Eve include a children's mass called Weihnachtsgeschichte, which features a Krippenspiel ('crib play').

The German tradition also includes the Erlau Playbook and the plays from Oberufer.

Popular

In Latin America pastorelas ('shepherd's plays') are performed in many local communities. These were imported during Spanish colonization of the Americas but are no longer common in Spain. They recount the story of the shepherds travelling to worship the newborn Christ , augmenting the Biblical text with apocryphal events, indigenous beliefs, regional features, anachronisms, satire and buffoonery. Each community's play evolves into a distinctive tradition.[4]

In Belgium, puppet theatres often put on variations on the Nativity play in the weeks before Christmas, with parents and their children in the audience. The play often depicts the Massacre of the Innocents which occurred after the birth of Jesus.[5] Joan Gross traces this augmentation back to cryptic protests in the late nineteenth century against the abuse of native peoples by colonists in the King Leopold II's Congo Free State.[5]

In Townsville, Queensland Australia, the Stable on the Strand is an annual nativity play held at the city's oceanfront park.[6][7]

Nativity plays are also popular in the United States. Many larger congregations have an annual play which is popular in the community: one example is the Gift of Christmas, produced annually by Prestonwood Baptist Church at its main campus in Plano, Texas.

It is also very popular in Eastern Europe, notably in Poland and Hungary.

In schools

A children's nativity play in Oklahoma.

Many, especially Christian-oriented, primary schools and Sunday Schools put on a Nativity play before the Christmas break begins. Children in costume act as the human and angel characters, and often as the animals and props. The infant Jesus is sometimes represented by a doll, but sometimes played by a real baby. Parents, grandparents and siblings, schoolteachers and sometimes the church community in general form the audience. The tradition of Nativity plays in British state primary schools is declining in favour of secular plays because of the need to include pupils of other faiths. However, a survey in 2012 found that 20% of schools were planning a traditional Nativity play and a further 50% were intending to stage an updated version of the Christmas story, sometimes with new music and extra characters.[8]

Literary

Modern writers to have written Nativity plays include Laurence Housman (Bethlehem, 1902; musical accompaniment by Joseph Moorat c. 1919[9]); Lucjan Rydel (Polish Bethlehem, 1904); Cicely Hamilton (The Child in Flanders: A Nativity Play, 1922); Dorothy L. Sayers (He That Should Come, 1938) and Antony Brown (David and the Donkey, (1966).[10]

Jean-Paul Sartre's first play was Bariona, ou le Fils du tonnerre [fr], a nativity play performed on Christmas Eve 1940 while a prisoner of war in a German stalag. Sartre saw Christ as part of the Jewish Resistance to the Roman Empire's occupation, mirroring the French Resistance of Nazi Germany's occupation.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Wellesz, Egon (1947). "The Nativity Drama of the Byzantine Church". Journal of Roman Studies. 37. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies: 145–151. doi:10.2307/298465. JSTOR 298465. S2CID 162243412.
  2. ^ Goldstein, Leonard (2004). The Origin of Medieval Drama. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 54–60. ISBN 0-8386-4004-4.
  3. ^ Collins, Ace (2010). Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas. Zondervan. pp. 139–141. ISBN 978-0-310-87388-4.
  4. ^ Harris, Cathlyn A. (December 2001). "Los Pastores/Las Pastorelas: Public Theatre, Popular Devotion". Hemispheric Institute, NYU. Archived from the original on 2007-11-28. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
  5. ^ a b Gross, Joan (September 2003). Benton Jay Komins (ed.). "Symbolism, Popular Drama, and Politics and Art in Belgium, 1886-1910". Comparative Literature and Culture. 5 (5.3 Comparative Cultural Studies and Popular Culture). Purdue University Press. doi:10.7771/1481-4374.1191. ISSN 1481-4374. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
  6. ^ Fernbach, Nathalie (23 December 2010). "Journey into Bethlehem". ABC (Australia). Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  7. ^ Fernbach, Nathalie; Calderwood, Kathleen (22 December 2015). "Very first Stable on The Strand baby still supports Townsville event 17 years on". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  8. ^ The Daily Telegraph - 17 December 2012 - School nativity plays under threat
  9. ^ Hunt, J. (March 1975). "Moorat". The Musical Times. 116 (1585). Musical Times Publications Ltd.: 228. doi:10.2307/959098. JSTOR 959098.
  10. ^ https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_bks&q=antony+brown+%27%27David+and+the+Donkey%27%27&fq=dt%3Abks [Retrieved 25 November 2020].
  11. ^ Quinn, Bernard J. (Spring 1972). "The Politics of Despair versus the Politics of Hope: A Look at Bariona, Sartre's First pièce engagée". The French Review (Special Issue, No. 4, Studies on the French Theater): 95–105.

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