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Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without Chichester Festival Youth Theatre
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20/12/2023
Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without Chichester Festival Youth Theatre for George Stanbridge.
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Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Really lovely
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this afternoon to speak to George Stambridge, who is returning to the main house stage in
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Chichester Festival Theatre with Chichester Festival Youth Theatre after The Wind in the
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Willows last year. You are back for The Jungle Book. Now, you loved The Wind in the Willows,
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didn't you? What did you get from it last year?
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From Wind in the Willows, I think I really, really developed how I feel in my acting.
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I think it was a really, really good experience as it was a very big cast to a school player
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I'd been in before. It had loads of different people, loads of different people with different
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ways they act, and it really made me discover how I act compared to different people and
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how I work with other people in the community.
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And last year you were one of the bad guys. This year you are perhaps misunderstood, perceived
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to be one of the bad guys, but not really.
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Yeah, I think this year I, well, I am a monkey, I'm a bandalog, as they're called. I think
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this year, at the start of the play, I'm really seen as something, someone you don't want
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to like go near, they're quite vicious. But as the play goes on, you find out that the
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bandalogs are more people who express themselves in ways people aren't used to, as one is sort
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of follows a certain rule. But the bandalogs, they don't, they do what they want. They want
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to be free, which a lot of the people in the play really want to be free, especially Mowgli.
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And I think Mowgli and other characters seeing the bandalogs, it really made them express
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themselves and feel like themselves.
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I'm so looking forward to seeing it. It's going to be great, isn't it? So you were there
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on the main house stage last year. This year you'll be on the main house stage. Is this
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stepping towards a career in acting, do you think? Have you made up your mind where you
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want to go?
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I'm really not sure yet. I think I'd really want to keep on doing more shows at CFT and
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see how it goes and see, just see the different directors and how people work. I'm still really
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learning and I think in a few years' time I'll be able to make that decision.
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Absolutely. But you're having a great experience along the way, aren't you?
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Definitely. Really, really definitely.
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Brilliant. Well, so lovely to speak to you, George. Have a fantastic time on that stage.
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So really looking forward to seeing you and thank you for your time. Good luck with it
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all. Thank you.
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