The cast of Treasure Island prepare for this year’s pantomime at Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre
Lee Greig and Liam Dolan who are starring in this year’s Pavilion Theatre pantomime speak about how the show is inherently Scottish.
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00:00 So Treasure Island is the story of good versus evil.
00:05 Good being the Hawkins family, evil being Long John Silver
00:09 and his two trusty sidekick pirates.
00:11 In this case, that's pint-sized Pilchard,
00:15 who is played by Stephen Purdon,
00:17 and peg-leg Pucklebumb, who is played by Grado.
00:22 - A magical adventure of fun, goodies, baddies,
00:28 lots of panto, slapstick stuff, great music,
00:31 great adventures, and great fun.
00:34 - I think pantomime is engraved into Scottish culture,
00:38 but, and I've said this for years,
00:40 the pavilion panto is different to any panto you go see.
00:45 - We kind of make it local,
00:46 because it's the story of Treasure Island,
00:48 which is a very well-known story,
00:50 and we've kind of made it more Glasgow,
00:52 because it's all based with Glasgow characters
00:53 and Scottish wordplay and puns and things like that.
00:57 - You've got the story, you've got the lovely sets
01:01 and the great outfits, but it's steeped in panto.
01:06 - I've been involved with the pavilion panto
01:08 for the past eight years,
01:10 and I also worked for the company
01:12 that's producing it this year,
01:14 down in Kilmarnock for 12 years.
01:16 - The pavilion was always the theatre
01:18 that I went to see panto, and I've seen it everywhere else,
01:20 and I love it everywhere,
01:22 but there's something special about the pavilion,
01:24 and we always say the audience
01:28 are just as big a part of the cast as we are,
01:31 so they're a bit cheeky, they can be a bit hard sometimes,
01:34 they can take a joke, they like a wee double entendre.
01:40 - It's just a magical venue, it's just absolutely brilliant.
01:42 The audience are there, they're like the extra cast member,
01:45 they're so intimate that everybody's with you
01:47 every step of the way.
01:49 - Yeah, I mean, a pavilion panto's a force to be reckoned with
01:52 and this year is absolutely no different,
01:54 so there's lots of Glasgow patter in this one.
01:58 - They should come and see Treasure Island
01:59 because they will have an absolutely brilliant time.
02:03 They will laugh from start to finish,
02:04 they'll go out singing all the songs,
02:06 and they'll have lots of happy panto memories.