Slava's SnowShow brings Christmas magic to Brighton

One of the best things Vanya Polunin has ever heard said about Slava's SnowShow is that “our snow warms the heart.”

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

00:06exciting, Slava's Snow Show is heading towards Brighton, Theatre Royal Brighton this Christmas,

00:12just before Christmas. And Vanya, you are with it as always, you've been with it since childhood.

00:18What is it that made this show so special, do you think?

00:21I think it's the way it transcends time. I don't want to sound, you know, too epic,

00:31but it just has all the emotions and things that people lived with for their whole lives.

00:39It's got fear and laughter and loss and love. I think that's what people find

00:47that they can relate to in the show.

00:49So it's the eternal things, is it? It's not, as you said, it's not current affairs, is it?

00:54It's not.

00:55The things that will always touch us. And you started in the show when you were, what, seven?

01:02Seven years old, I'm 37 years now. So, yeah, I've been with it my whole life. And right now,

01:11got a four-month-old who will probably will want to crawl onto stage at some point,

01:15because we have that much fun.

01:17So there would never be a life without Slav and Snow Show, then?

01:22We'll see if people will need it. If there's a thirst for it, we will continue. Because as I

01:30noticed, you know, forever, not just with the show, in life, whenever there was some turbulence

01:39in the world, people went to see theatre. They turned to art as an elixir.

01:46So we hope the show will help, you know, the same way.

01:52Absolutely. Well, can't wait to see it again. Lovely to speak to you.

01:56Thank you very much indeed.