nativity

“Welcome to Derry,” a prequel to the events of Stephen King’s 1986 novel, seems especially fond of using nativity to midwife atrocities, although body horror in general is a defining trait of the show.

"I was seeing nativity and Christmas scenes everywhere in this town. And all the trees had turned into plastic. The hallucinations were phenomenal, crazy," she said.

Ms Hooper, who has taught at Cokethorpe for 24 years, said Pugh performed the nativity in a Yorkshire accent: "I'm not sure where that came from at the time, but she was just brilliant."

"The resources for the nativity play never arrived," she said.

"The hustle, the bustle, a hive of activity. Not the typical scene of your Christmas nativity," Oldman reads.