Panto stars of the New Theatre Royal production of Aladdin visited children in the paediatric wards at Queen Alexandra Hospital on Friday, December 15.
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00:00 So my name's Anna Farthing and I'm the Chief Exec of the new Theatre Royal in Portsmouth.
00:04 So tell me where we are and what we're doing here today.
00:07 Today we're in the Children's Ward at the hospital and I'm really thrilled to be here.
00:11 In my previous role I was an Arts Programme Director for a hospital in Bristol and Weston
00:16 and it was fantastic to bring our pantomime characters here today and to think about how
00:21 we can work more closely together in the future.
00:24 What's the reaction been like from the children?
00:26 The children have absolutely been delighted to meet the characters.
00:30 Because our pantomime has different types of characters you can have a gentle moment
00:33 with a princess, you can have an adventurous moment with Aladdin, you can bond with little
00:39 wishy-washy or have hilarious gags from Widow Twankey.
00:43 So it's really worked well.
00:45 And obviously in a children's hospital you've got children aged from newborn right the way
00:49 through to 16, 17 year olds and all of our amazing actors have worked so hard to work
00:55 with children of all ages.
00:58 Tell me why it's important for visits like this?
01:02 Visits like this are really important because New Theatre Royal is also a charity and also
01:07 because we want to be able to work with everybody in the Portsmouth area whether or not they
01:12 can come to us.
01:13 If they can't come to us we'll go to them.
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