The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry has enjoyed a phenomenally positive response in Chichester’s Minerva Theatre.
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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Really lovely to
00:06speak to Amy Booth still, who is part of the fabulous, the utterly fabulous, the unlikely
00:11pilgrimage of Harold Fry currently in the Minerva and at the Minerva until Saturday, June the 14th.
00:18The response on press night was fabulous, people on their feet, but it just felt so genuine and so
00:24enthusiastic. Well, what's the show getting right? He must be so thrilled to be in the middle of that.
00:30Yeah, it's, it's kind of incredible feeling. I think we're just so proud. We've just been working
00:38so hard for so long on this piece. And this piece obviously was a book verse, which has been
00:44around for 15, 10, 15 years, I think. And, and so to now get it to a place where it's a kind of
00:52this, this new musical version of it, and people are like getting on board. It's just amazing.
00:58Did you have a good feeling about it? Or do you just think you never know until the audience is there?
01:03I think, yeah. I mean, obviously, I read the script and was in tears straight away because of the stories.
01:10There's something about this story that just gets to everyone, I think. And in some way,
01:15in some of the characters, there's something to relate to. And as soon as I read the script,
01:19I was like, yes, this is going to be so special. But I think with new work and stuff, you just don't
01:25know, like, it could be special to me, but you don't know if anyone else is going to find it
01:30as cool as you did. But you just work and work and work and hope that people will get on board and
01:35they seem to like it.
01:36So I guess the point is, it's really saying something of substance isn't quite apart from
01:41saying incredibly entertainingly, but it is something is saying something that matters,
01:45doesn't it?
01:46Yeah, I feel that it resonates with people.
01:48I think so. Yeah, I think there's like, Harold's story and everyone he meets along the way is just,
01:56it's so universal. And it's so, you can just watch it and feel yourself in it. At some point in his
02:03journey, we've all been there, we've all experienced these emotions, we've all had to go through certain
02:08things in life. And it's just kind of, it's so relatable to see it on stage. And you get these
02:15characters for like, a minute, and then they're gone, and then a minute, and they're gone, but
02:19they're so rounded, and they're so full, that you like really feel for these people that he meets for
02:24like, a day, and then you never see them again. But you're like, oh my gosh, I felt that, or I've
02:29been there, or do you know what I mean? So like, I think people are like, seeing themselves in it,
02:34which is so special.
02:35Brilliant. Well, it'll be really interesting to see what happens next. Something will certainly
02:40happen next, won't it? But in the meantime, you are in the Minerva until Saturday
02:45June the 14th. Amy, really lovely to speak to you, and a huge congratulations to you.
02:49Thank you so much.
02:50Such a genuinely superb show. Thank you.
02:53Thank you so much.