Priory Park Panto Experience will add a special sparkle to Chichester Christmas

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Fairy Sparkle dreams of being the fairy on the top of the tree. Santa and Mrs Santa are working their socks off to deliver Christmas on time. But Norman the naughty elf is plotting to ruin everything. It will be up to the audience to save the day.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Always one

00:06of the great pleasures in Chichester to speak to Vicki Edwards, dear friend of many years

00:09standing. Now, Vicki, you are doing something really, truly exciting this time. You are

00:13bringing the Priory Park Panto experience to Chichester. What is it?

00:17Well, not just me, myself, Katie Bennett, Riley Clark and John Harcourt. We are performing

00:25the Priory Park Panto experience. It's a cracking little story. It contains all the

00:30traditional Panto elements that people love. So we've got a sing-along, we've got audience

00:34participation, we've got a few surprises as well. And it is, we can run from Friday the

00:4113th through to Sunday the 15th of December, four shows on the Saturday, four on the Sunday,

00:47one on the Friday. And it is, I hope, going to be a really wholesome, magical, special

00:53Christmas experience. More festive fun, and you can say this to him, I'm hungry.

00:59Why is it happening now?

01:02Why is it, sorry?

01:03Why is it happening now?

01:04Oh, why is it happening now? Well, I think the idea was to use Priory Park and the Guildhall

01:11just for something that was really family focused, that would really deliver on kind

01:16of that feel-good factor that people love at that time of year. And magic, I don't think

01:21you can understate magic at Christmas, it's special.

01:25And you are going to be giving us your Mrs Santa, aren't you?

01:29I am indeed going to be Mrs Santa, but Mrs Santa with a bit of sass, and she's a modern

01:34gal.

01:35And the brains of the operation, you were suggesting?

01:38The brains, well I think, you know, Santa is the face of Christmas, nobody can dispute

01:44that. But I think behind every successful man is a woman.

01:50You are probably right. Now, if this goes really well, who knows, this could be the

01:54start of a bit of a Chichester tradition, couldn't it? I mean, it's such a lovely venue

01:58you're walking into.

02:00It really is, it's a really special venue. I mean, it's historically, it's got some phenomenally

02:04interesting facts about it. You know, it's been a court, it's been a museum, it hosts

02:08weddings, now a panto, who knows? I think we need to get through this year first, see

02:14how we go.

02:15Fantastic. And tickets, where do people get the tickets?

02:20Tickets from the Novium box office. There are details that I will post online liberally.

02:26Fantastic, good. Well, lovely to speak to you. Congratulations on this new venture.

02:31Can't wait to come and see you. Thank you ever so much.

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