2010/09/12 Amsterdam
Santa Claus
Princess
“Little Princess Arabella” is a play for children; it’s about a rather spoiled princess who insists on getting an elephant for her birthday.
Her parents decide to give her an elephant – as I said she is quite spoiled – or to be exact, they decide to give her the experience of having an elephant.
This afternoon my godson’s mother invited me to see this play in the Amsterdam public library with her and her son.
I enjoyed the show, but my godson was more critical. He was afraid of the elephant.
I remembered that as a kid actors used to scare me away. Even Santa Claus was above all a frightening man.
According to my godson he was just not too happy with the quality of today’s play, although he liked the music.
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I remember when I was a kid and my father took me to a streetart performance. They were acting and dressed up really weird. To this day there's a special fragrance that frightens me when I smell it: the fragrance of that scary man decades ago.
As a child I wasn't too impressed with the intelligence by adults. So when I found out Sinterklaas didn't exist , I felt devestated, because that meant there weren't angels or saints either to give guidance to the grown ups.
I was never afraid of actors as a child but that might be because I didn't come to see many back then. And those I did see were mostly people I knew. Every christmas my kindergarten teacher used to dress up as Santa and all but a small blond boy knew who it was. The little blond one cried for many, though. And right he was, because we were never allowed to keep the presents that were given to us.
L. David
There's a special smell about priests, preachers and reformed church ministers that has always scared me.Of course church is children's theatre for adults.
My mum told me that they'd take us, the kids, to see things like puppet theaters and while the other kids would sit there quietly with blank faces I would be the only one screaming with delight and rolling on the floor with laughter. Especially about the grown-up jokes she said and things that weren't funny to anybody else. The darker the better. Sinterklaas on the other hand always looked like a fat badly dressed fraud to me.
@Carlos The church is children's theatre for adults? The church is a playground for deeply disturbed adults.
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Whoopee!! At AH you can buy spice nuts again!As a toddler I liked the carnival, Santa Claus, even nuns and priests, in short all dressed up adults – as long as they were not for real (I thought). Real adults were frightening to me.
@Mieke
When my parents told me Santa Claus did not exist, I thought about it for a while. Then I said: “If he does not exist nowadays, he must have existed a time ago.”
“Why do you say such things?”, my mother questioned me.
“He must have set the example”, I replied, “because adults never give something for nothing – So, in a way, he still exists …”
I remember my mother was not very pleased with my reasoning.
@Mieke
When my parents told me Santa Claus did not exist, I thought about it for a while. Then I said: “If he does not exist nowadays, he must have existed a time ago.”
“Why do you say such things?”, my mother questioned me.
“He must have set the example”, I replied, “because adults never give something for nothing – So, in a way, he still exists …”
I remember my mother was not very pleased with my reasoning.
@ Bernard
Smart and funny. But I wonder, what did Nicolas do over then that it inspired so many people. Did you see the picture of Arnon in his magazine "Blauwe Maandagen", dressed up as Santa?Aliefka
Please note that the two are not mutually exclusive. I understand your point, but I was referring more to the fables and unlikely tales that "men of cloth" foist on us as "God's word".[ Comment removed ]
@Mieke
Of course I am referring to Sinterklaas and not the Coca leaves and Cola nut Company ’s Santa Claus. Read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
And I feel a little ashamed that I forgot all about the magazine.
Of course I am referring to Sinterklaas and not the Coca leaves and Cola nut Company ’s Santa Claus. Read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
And I feel a little ashamed that I forgot all about the magazine.
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