to feel rather peeved that I cannot see my own child perform at nativity play as apparently one had to buy tickets in advance and no-one told me!

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My child is a Narrator. Last I heard was they were charging £2 donation for charity. Fine by me, No mention of tickets or having to buy in advance.
It is held in a church, never been any restrictions on numbers. Today I find out that one had to buy them in advance and I didn't know and now all tickets are sold out and, for the first time ever, there is a limit of 100 people for the 2 shows. I am very upset and fuming.

When I tried to talk about it in the office, I got a very sniffy ''OTHER people managed to work it out, MrsFMF...'' from the receptionist.

FFS. How do I tell my child neither parent nor grandparents will be there to witness the shining performance...?

not at all, 2 years ago we had sort of the same situation, we had tickets (2 per family) then 2 days before the play it was cancelled as a parent had rung the firebrigade and complained about the amount of people in the school ( because it was 2 per family and they werent allowed to take the baby so they complained)
anyway, the day of the would be play i drop ds1 off at school for breakfast club, go towork and then picked him up at finishing time, only he was upset as we didnt go see him in his play!! they had only held it ouside so they could get round the fire regs and not told us, they wrote it on the playground notice board but as us breakfast club parents dont get to see it in the mornings we werent told it was back on again. we were all p**d off!!

Blimey - glad you've got a ticket anyway. Good luck to your dh - can you sneak in a grandma too? Can she take sanctuary with dh? They can't evict a frail old lady from a church. Unless she is the armed-with-sticks battling type, in which case she should be able to take care of herself.

i was going to say just turn up - if your dh gets any problems you could say to receptionist/parent/teacher on door - would you like to explain to our child why his/her parents are not allowed to see their play?