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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Sussex tour
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11/05/2024
West Sussex-based TIMT Theatre Company will be going far and wide this spring with their double offering – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum alongside their own version of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
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Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Always lovely
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to speak to Ethan Taylor of This Is My Theatre. Now you're embarking on a fabulous sounding
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show which starts at the end of the first week of May, goes through to the end of June.
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You are going far and wide with two productions this spring, and they are The Wonderful Wizard
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of Oz and Jane Austen's Persuasion. Why those two together?
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Oh, well, we always like going out with a very family-friendly show. That's The Wonderful
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Wizard of Oz, taking the adaptation from the book rather than the film. The film is lovely
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and the classic that it is, but there's a lot that remains unearthed within the book
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that we'll be bringing to life with lots of puppetry and live music as well. And then
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we are also taking on the road Jane Austen's Persuasion, but we're bringing it to life
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in our catastrophic, as we're calling it, manner. So it's too few actors and too many
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roles. We will have three performers bringing to life close to 15 characters with a variety
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of multi-rolling, hat-swapping and balancing of props, and presumably quite a bit of chaos
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and farce.
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Brilliant. But how much of Jane Austen remains in the production, would you say?
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It's still very, very faithful to the original story. So yes, ardent Jane Austen fans can
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come see it brought to life, the story that they know and love, but just in a slightly
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unorthodox fashion, I'm going to say.
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It sounds brilliant. The lovely thing for the company is your success means that you're
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juggling lots of new venues, but also trying to keep happy your favourites, and you are
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going far and wide at the same. It's a big tour, isn't it?
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It is a big old tour. Yep. Running from the start of May, like you said, right through
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to the end of June, we're Sussex-based, but we are going as far north at the minute as
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Nottinghamshire, going out towards Wiltshire, and we're all over the place, including Kent,
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Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, various other places in the Midlands, but it's lovely. And yeah,
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as you mentioned, we've got a lot of lovely new venues with some wonderful people behind
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them, but we're making sure we visit the people that we've been going to since they've died,
02:07
because they've been keeping us going.
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And part of the reason for that success, as you were saying, is you're pretty transportable,
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given that you are fairly low in numbers.
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Yes, yeah, fairly low in numbers. We're a cast of four, and we rock up to any venue
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with a band filled with cast, crew, and a lot of sets, generally. But yeah, we're there
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for one night and one night only, usually, and yeah, it makes for a very special experience.
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Fantastic. Well, it sounds brilliant. Good luck with all of it. Lovely to speak to you
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again. Thank you.
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Thank you, sir. Take care.
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