Oh yes you do! Do you enjoy a pantomime, Leeds?

Will you be going to a pantomime this year? What aspects do you find most enjoyable or least appealing about the experience?

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00:00I'm a stage actor in theatre, so I'm partial to a pantomime, I'd say.

00:04I think, reflecting on the pantomime as a topic,

00:07it's just good fun, isn't it?

00:10It's not like... I don't think there's any harm meant to be done in a pantomime.

00:13It's just good, honest fun.

00:16I love a pantomime.

00:18Me and my mum go every year around Christmastime.

00:20It's traditional. We go every year.

00:23They are cheesy, but then I think Christmastime is cheesy,

00:27so it does make it fun.

00:29There's the typical, like, oh, he's behind you and all that,

00:32which is... I feel like it's what makes a pantomime.

00:34You can't have a pantomime without saying that.

00:37I used to go to a lot with my mum and my grandma when we were younger,

00:40but now I'm not really too bothered about them.

00:41I think it's good for the theatre industry, you know.

00:44It keeps the theatres open and flat out, which is traditional sort of...

00:47I haven't been to one for many years.

00:49I did used to go when I was a kid. My family used to take me.

00:52I think... The one I remember is...

00:55I think it was Roald Dahl's The Twits,

00:57and it was at the City Varieties.