The cast of Treasure Island prepare for this year’s pantomime at Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre

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Lee Greig and Liam Dolan who are starring in this year’s Pavilion Theatre pantomime speak about how the show is inherently Scottish.

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00:00 So Treasure Island is the story of good versus evil.

00:05 Good being the Hawkins family, evil being Long John Silver

00:09 and his two trusty sidekick pirates.

00:11 In this case, that's pint-sized Pilchard,

00:15 who is played by Stephen Purdon,

00:17 and peg-leg Pucklebumb, who is played by Grado.

00:22 - A magical adventure of fun, goodies, baddies,

00:28 lots of panto, slapstick stuff, great music,

00:31 great adventures, and great fun.

00:34 - I think pantomime is engraved into Scottish culture,

00:38 but, and I've said this for years,

00:40 the pavilion panto is different to any panto you go see.

00:45 - We kind of make it local,

00:46 because it's the story of Treasure Island,

00:48 which is a very well-known story,

00:50 and we've kind of made it more Glasgow,

00:52 because it's all based with Glasgow characters

00:53 and Scottish wordplay and puns and things like that.

00:57 - You've got the story, you've got the lovely sets

01:01 and the great outfits, but it's steeped in panto.

01:06 - I've been involved with the pavilion panto

01:08 for the past eight years,

01:10 and I also worked for the company

01:12 that's producing it this year,

01:14 down in Kilmarnock for 12 years.

01:16 - The pavilion was always the theatre

01:18 that I went to see panto, and I've seen it everywhere else,

01:20 and I love it everywhere,

01:22 but there's something special about the pavilion,

01:24 and we always say the audience

01:28 are just as big a part of the cast as we are,

01:31 so they're a bit cheeky, they can be a bit hard sometimes,

01:34 they can take a joke, they like a wee double entendre.

01:40 - It's just a magical venue, it's just absolutely brilliant.

01:42 The audience are there, they're like the extra cast member,

01:45 they're so intimate that everybody's with you

01:47 every step of the way.

01:49 - Yeah, I mean, a pavilion panto's a force to be reckoned with

01:52 and this year is absolutely no different,

01:54 so there's lots of Glasgow patter in this one.

01:58 - They should come and see Treasure Island

01:59 because they will have an absolutely brilliant time.

02:03 They will laugh from start to finish,

02:04 they'll go out singing all the songs,

02:06 and they'll have lots of happy panto memories.

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