Southampton's Wicked Queen and Snow White

SussexWorld

Rachel Stanley has been our Wicked Queen opposite Kirsty Ingram as Snow White in this year’s Mayflower panto in Southampton.

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00:00 Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers, and it's

00:06 fabulous to be speaking to, well they hardly need an introduction do they really? Snow

00:11 White and the Wicked Queen from the panto coming up in Mayfair in Southampton this Christmas.

00:17 Now, Rachel, yeah, you must be looking forward to this, you're looking absolutely the part.

00:22 Oh, I love it. As soon as I get into costume, I'm there, you know, I can't wait.

00:29 You're terrorising her already.

00:31 Yeah.

00:32 But why do you want to be the baddie then?

00:35 So much more, yes, sorry Kirsty, but you do have more fun. You do, because I have, like

00:41 I said, I've played Cinderella before, and it's wonderful to be lovely, you know, and

00:46 everyone loves, you know, Snow White and Cinderella, but oh my God, I just love playing the villain.

00:51 You just, it's just great being wicked.

00:53 Kirsty, Kirsty would disagree.

00:55 It's far away from my own character.

00:57 Because Kirsty, this is your third successive year in this role.

01:02 It is, it is indeed, and I absolutely love it. And I have all the fun too.

01:08 Why do you love being the baddie? Why do you love being the goodie?

01:15 Because everybody loves the goodie. Nobody loves the baddie.

01:19 I like that.

01:20 Yeah, controversial.

01:23 Yeah, she's fantastic to play. I love playing Snow White. Third year.

01:27 Third year.

01:29 This is what you've got to come.

01:31 Yeah, this is what I've got to come apparently.

01:33 In future.

01:34 We'll see, we'll see.

01:35 You're convinced that she'll turn to the bad eventually then.

01:39 Definitely turn to the bad, sorry.

01:41 Not so sure, not so sure.

01:43 You hold out for the good. But third successive year as Snow White, do you approach it differently

01:48 each year, or is it just different because it's a slightly different cast and a different place?

01:52 Yeah, it's always different every year. Different cast, different creatives as well.

01:57 So everyone's going to be bringing different things to the production.

02:00 So I'm really excited to see what this year is going to bring.

02:04 And it's always a different script, you see. We'd never get the same script each year.

02:09 It's always a different set of music. It's always different.

02:12 Yeah. So although I obviously sing the classic Disney songs, we will have pop songs thrown in there too.

02:20 So they always change for Snow White and Slytherin.

02:23 That sounds fantastic. And Rachel, it's one of the year's great puzzles, isn't it?

02:27 Panto every year. What on earth is it? Why is it happening? Why do we all adore it?

02:33 It's because the whole family can enjoy it.

02:36 It's something for everyone from grandparents down to tiny tots.

02:40 There's something in it for everyone. They can muck in.

02:43 And it brings everyone together, I think.

02:45 I think we need that half the time after what is going on in the news, you know, after Covid.

02:50 I think people love it. Everyone being brought together to enjoy, you know, one thing, one great show.

02:58 That is pantomime. Yeah.

03:00 And Kirsty, sharing the stage with Christopher Biggins, that must be quite good fun.

03:05 Yeah, I'm very, very excited. I haven't actually met Christopher Biggins yet, so I will meet him today.

03:11 I'm really, really excited to work with him. I've heard wonderful things.

03:15 Brace yourself. He's fabulous. He's fabulous.

03:20 He is. He's great fun to speak to. You'll have a blast.

03:23 So will we when we come and see the Panto at the Mayflight this Christmas.

03:27 Really lovely to speak to you both. Thank you so much for your time.

03:30 And looking forward to the show. Thank you.

03:34 Thank you. Thanks.

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