A sleepover and a play.

After we got back from our holiday on Saturday afternoon, K spent quite a lot of time shut away with a t-shirt and fabric paint and she continued on Sunday.  On Sunday afternoon, C arrived for the girls' first proper sleepover.  From that point on, we hardly saw the three girls apart from for meals!  As I understand it they spent much of the time continuing the preparation that had started a fortnight ago at the Asfordby HE group.  We had an agreement that a not-midnight feast was allowed, as long as teeth were brushed again afterwards and they had it at quarter to ten.  They didn't settle down ridiculously late, thanks mostly to C, I think.

After an early lunch we headed over to Asfordby, where M in particular was very impatient to find out if Z was going to be there.  The secret planning that was begun at the last one between K, M, C & Z was ready to be revealed.  They had written the script, cast the play, learned their parts, decided on and in some cases designed the costumes for their version of Pyramus and Thisbe, the play within a play in A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Z was Pyramus, C was Thisbe, M played the wall and the moon and K was the narrator and operated the lion (a lion blanket).

There is a stage in the hall, so with help from others we cleared a space on it and put out some chairs.  At K's request I asked people to be quiet and warned them that there were some deaths in the play, so if they minded they might want to leave.  It was a bit noisy (there are quiet a lot of toddlers and younger children), so a bit tricky to hear, but all four of them had clearly learned their parts really well.  It finished with the line "And they all lived happily ever after, except Pyramus and Thisbe.  The End." and then they took their bow.

Thisbe (C), Pyramus (Z), the Wall and Moon (M) and the narrator (K) with lion.

The 'wall' t-shirt that K spent hours painting.

There have been times in the past when there has been a lot of talking about putting on plays (usually the whole of the Harry Potter series!), so it's been really good to see them coming up with an idea, working on it in lots of different ways and getting all the way through to the production and performing it.