Katie Town - executive director of Theatre Royal Wakefield
Katie Town, executive director of Theatre Royal Wakefield explains why its annual pantomime helps the theatre to take more risks throughout the rest of the year.
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00:00 The pantomime is a really important part of this for our Wakefields year.
00:05 It's the point where we welcome 30,000 people from our local community through our doors
00:09 to come and see a show, to shout out, to be able to have some festive fun,
00:15 really enjoy our narrative-driven pantomime and to maybe get splashed by a water pistol if they're really lucky.
00:23 It's also really the most important part of our year from a financial point of view.
00:28 Those busy audiences and those busy bar receipts that we get at that point
00:34 really underpin our work throughout the rest of the year
00:37 and enable us to really commit to doing work with our local community
00:42 and doing a wide range of participation activities throughout the rest of the year.
00:47 So it's our busiest point of the year and a really important part of what makes our identity.