Chris Dale is our Uncle Fester in The Addams Family on the Horsham stage

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Chris Dale is our Uncle Fester as HAODS take to the Horsham stage with The Addams Family at the Capitol Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday, November 5-9.

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00:00Take two.

00:02Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt,

00:04Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers.

00:06Lovely to speak to Chris Dale this afternoon.

00:08Now Chris, you're doing something that's very special,

00:10The Addams Family with Hayards at the

00:12Capitol Theatre in Horsham in November

00:14and you are playing Uncle Fester.

00:16Now, what's Uncle Fester

00:18all about? He's a good guy, isn't he?

00:20He is.

00:22He's very lovable, he's

00:24very caring, he's very sweet

00:26despite his

00:28unusual appearance.

00:30He is just lots and lots

00:32of fun

00:34and looks can be deceiving.

00:36He's very cute.

00:38And talking of looks,

00:40it's quite some transformation you've got

00:42to undergo. What's got to happen,

00:44unless it's giving way too much in advance?

00:46What do you subject yourself to?

00:48Yes.

00:50So I have to shave my head,

00:52hence the shortness of it

00:54at the moment, but I am gradually losing it

00:56at the same time.

00:58I have to get rid of the beards,

01:00I have to paint my face white,

01:02I have to wear

01:04a lovely fat suit.

01:06I kind of feel a bit like Mrs Doubtfire,

01:08a bit like Robin Williams when he's trying to get

01:10out of his costume

01:12and putting it back on in a hurry.

01:14So that's going to be me backstage.

01:16And yeah, my wife

01:18in fact helped me make the costume as

01:20well. And it's

01:22a very iconic look.

01:24So I think if you're going to do Fester, you have to

01:26tick all those boxes.

01:28You couldn't have a skinny Fester, unfortunately.

01:30You mentioned your wife, Rachel.

01:32Worth mentioning the fact that you're

01:34part of the Great Hales family.

01:36You met through Hales, didn't you?

01:38Yes, yes, we did.

01:40Yeah, so quite a while ago now.

01:42And

01:44yeah, I mean, never intended

01:46to meet my wife

01:48at Hales. It was always

01:50an excuse for me to

01:52keep the flame alive with performing

01:54really and make some new friends.

01:56And just by happy coincidence,

01:58yeah, I kind of

02:00met my soulmate really.

02:02And we've been doing Hales shows ever

02:04since. And she choreographs occasionally

02:06and loves to dance.

02:08And she's done

02:10main parts as well before.

02:12And yeah, I get to be

02:14the comic idiot basically in

02:16these shows and don weird

02:18moustaches and wigs

02:20and unusual things that

02:22probably not a lot of husbands would do.

02:24Oh, we do, yeah.

02:26And I think she secretly does as well, yeah.

02:28Although she does roll her eyes sometimes

02:30and goes, oh, who are you doing this time?

02:32Well, that's success, isn't it?

02:34That's a tribute,

02:36surely.

02:38Brilliant. Well, lovely

02:40to speak to you and have a great time

02:42with the Addams family, Uncle Fester.

02:44Thank you. Thank you very much.

02:46Early November.

02:48Thanks very much.

02:50Yes, in three weeks' time. Thank you very much.

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