When I was about 8 years old - in 1966 - we were having a drama class, maybe as part of an English lesson as we certainly didn't use to have them regularly.
Anyway the teacher wanted us to do a little scene, a small performance on the stage, except sadly we didn't have a stage! Therefore we used the small ballroom - our school was in what used to be a smallish mansion, which used to be the home of the Vicar of our almost Cathedral sized Church in my hometown - and at the back of the ballroom/assembly hall, we made and placed props in a semi-circular area there, and then we put out the viewers chairs in the other half of the semi-circle.
I can already hear you shout "Get on with it!", but please don't slow handicap me, or throw rotten tomatoes at me...
The Scene: The inside of a grocery shop, with a scene divider dividing the stage, and showing the area just outside of the shop. There is a pram parked just outside of the shop's entrance - presumably with a baby in it - the audience couldn't see inside the pram as it was one of those old fashioned - by today's standards - deep and slightly boat shaped Silver Cross Prams. There were two ladies in the main part of the shop, and one behind the counter.
At first, the two customers seemed to be talking a lot about rhubarb, but I have no idea why as that particular grocery shop didn't sell any types of fresh fruit or vegetables. The first lady said to both the other customer and the shopkeeper, "oh dear, I suppose I should hurry up or my little missy - baby Penelope - will soon be waking up feeling very hungry, and no-one wants to hear the lungs on her when she starts screaming!" So Penny's mum hurriedly paid for the groceries and rushed outside. Just as she reached the pram the first scream rang out, and in such a high pitch that anyone near to the pram automatically covered their ears, and the two women still in the shop looked at each other and smiled, with one of them saying, "ah poor Mary she didn't quite make it to the pram on time!"
In case you haven't guessed yet, I was the 8 year old Mary, baby Penny's mum. I was supposed to scream when I saw that the pram was empty, but I just couldn't, so after a bit of encouragement from the teacher, I tried to scream again, several times, but, no, I just couldn't do it, and I still can't do a full-throttle scream to this very day, so I was sacked, and a much better screamer took my place 🫣ðŸ¤ðŸ˜‚
By the way, baby Penelope was fine all along! Her Daddy had walked past her pram on the way to the off-licence, and glancing in he had realised it was Penny and that she was just waking up, and as he knew well enough that she would soon start screaming, he picked her up, and without even a thought for her mummy, he carried her into the off-licence with him, until he heard my understudy start screaming...
Sorry!