Here’s a first-look at ‘Mischief at the Mansion’, a magical festive world of light spectacles, surprises and cheekiness bringing the stories of Harewood House to life.
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00:00We are Studio Maguire, I'm Davey Maguire, I'm Christine Maguire, and we are Harewood House.
00:20We've come back for a sequel to what we did in 2019. So we've
00:25installed just under 20 projectors and hidden them in the house, and with that we are bringing
00:32the features of the building to life. So we are projecting onto cakes and plates and Christmas
00:39baubles and marble bus and they come to life. We are bringing the plasterwork of the ceiling to
00:45life. We've taken down portraits and replaced them with still lifes of flowers that blossom
00:52and wield. And we've got a lot of angels flying through the house and the idea is that they've
01:00escaped their duties as Christmas ornaments. A lot of the talking characters are actors that
01:06we've had to comp out and animate onto these objects. So it's a lot as well in the process
01:14of making it is ask the actors to imagine being a bauble or to imagine being a plate talking about
01:20having a cake landing on their face. A lot of the early stages of this process is imagination
01:26and it's asking a lot of other people to imagine with you what it is that is in your head.
01:32Coming back here this year everyone was so enthusiastic and so looking forward to it,
01:38to the point where we were almost a little bit concerned thinking oh can we live up to
01:42people's expectations. But the enthusiasm and the kindness and the warmth and the welcome
01:47that we always get when we come here is just so lovely. It's a lot of fun but also hopefully a few
01:54really beautiful moments where people can just sit back and escape the Christmas manic.