Performances run from Saturday, August 17 to Saturday, August 24 at 7.30pm at The Priory Playhouse Theatre, London Road, Arundel, BN18 9AT (tickets on 07523 417926 and https://www.ticketsource.co.uk).
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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor for Sussex Newspapers. Lovely
00:07this afternoon to speak to Deborah Addycott. Now Deborah, you are in the Arundel Players
00:12Arundel Festival production, which is Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie. Now it's a book that
00:17we were all brought up on. Were you brought up on Cider With Rosie?
00:25Not quite, no, unfortunately not. I had heard of it, obviously, before.
00:30So you were coming to it relatively fresh with this one, then?
00:35Yes, absolutely, yes.
00:37And what's the pleasure of the story? What makes it such a good story, do you think,
00:42and such an enjoyable show?
00:45I think, I mean, it's a lovely story. I mean, the words are beautiful, as I'm sure they
00:52are in the book. It's very sort of lyrical, very sort of poetic, his description of everything
01:04and the characters in the village and of his mother and his brothers and sisters. And it's
01:14sort of just, it's almost sort of painted with a sort of, I think, slightly rose-tinted
01:19glasses type.
01:20There's a nostalgia, isn't there? Because it's the world that's gone, isn't it?
01:27Yes, yes. Before all the cars and everything else sort of took over, really. So, yeah,
01:34and it's obviously set just after, it begins the year before the end of the First World
01:42War. So you're in sort of, you know, that sort of time period.
01:46And it goes through to the early 1930s, doesn't it, I think?
01:49That's it, yes. Yes, we're sort of just doing a little patch of it in the play.
01:55And who are you playing?
01:57It just gives you a bit of a feeling.
01:59Who are you playing?
02:01I'm playing Mother.
02:03Are you? Oh, my goodness.
02:05Yes.
02:07And what kind of mother is she?
02:09Oh, she loves the children very much. I mean, she married her husband, and he'd already
02:11had children. In the play, we don't see all the children. I think she had about eight.
02:17I think there's about eight in total, but we only get to see six in the play version.
02:26I know. There's going to be a lot of children.
02:28I mean, she loves the children very much, but she's sort of quite sort of flighty, and
02:32she's not very good with money. I think it's because the father leaves Laurie and the rest
02:41of the family when he was three, so he only sort of sends them a little bit of money,
02:47and she's really left to sort of fend for herself with all these children. That's why
02:51they sort of move into this little cottage, really.
02:54It's going to be a lot of work.
02:56You know, it's hard, but she loves the...
02:58She's not, as I said, she's not very good with money, and she ends up, because she loves
03:03China and all that sort of thing, she loves going to the sales, and she loves sort of
03:09buying things. Unfortunately, the children sort of get neglected in the clothes and
03:14boot department or for other sort of necessities while she does these sales, but at the end
03:21of the day, they know what she's like. She loves telling stories, and yeah.
03:26Fantastic. Well, it sounds brilliant. Lovely to speak to you.
03:31Okay, thank you.