{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-c03aa079.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-517835be.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Covent Garden in Christmas panto spirit with new interactive production' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c024d8eafeecae14881e' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c024d8eafeecae14881e' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nCovent Garden in Christmas panto spirit with new interactive production\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eIf you go down to Covent Garden this Christmas, don't be surprised if you bump into Mother Goose, Cinderella or even an ugly sister or two wondering around.\"Once Upon A Christmas\" is the new interactive theater experience from the award...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eIf you go down to Covent Garden this Christmas, don't be surprised if you bump into Mother Goose, Cinderella or even an ugly sister or two wondering around.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Once Upon A Christmas\" is the new interactive theater experience from the award winning \"Look Left Look Right\" theater company. It's a retelling of the classic Cinderella pantomime with an added twist: that's it up to the you to save Christmas.\u003cbr/\u003eThe adult only experience involves participants being chaperoned around Covent Garden by various flamboyant characters. \u003cbr/\u003e\"One of the biggest logistics things is just moving an audience member through the space, connecting up all the scenes, using the wonderful venues that have donated space to us. So yes, but it all comes together into one fabulous melting pot,\" explained  Mimi Poskitt, Artistic Director, Look Left Look Right.\u003cbr/\u003eAround 18 actors take part in the production, with pit stops made at the various shops, bars and restaurants in and around Covent Garden. \u003cbr/\u003eEach scene lasts about seven minutes, with the whole experience totalling about an hour and 10 minutes.\u003cbr/\u003eThose wanting to try something different should be prepared to get involved, as actor Euan Forsyth, who plays ugly sister Griselda, explains.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's quite live and it's raw so you need to be on your toes, you need to be able to, the audience needs to sort of respond sometimes. If I ask you what you're favorite tea was and you didn't say anything, I would just have to coax it out of you. But a lot of people just then go on a five minute conversation about how much they love tea and what tea they love. So it depends entirely on the audience member, but 99.9 percent of the time it's really positive and they're really engaging with it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWith immersive theater now big business in London and around the country, is this the death of the traditional Christmas panto as we see it? \u003cbr/\u003ePoskitt thinks not.\u003cbr/\u003e\"What this show offers is something a bit more alternative, it's a show to be done in pairs, it's a good date night, it's a really fun adult evening out and there's lots of lovely treats and surprises and snacks and drinks. I think it's just something a bit different but it has a good Christmassy panto feel to it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e \"Once Upon A Christmas\" is running now, until 15 December, in London's Covent Garden.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 18 Nov. 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide performance \"Once Upon A Christmas\"\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Euan Forsyth, actor: on what \"Once Upon A Christmas\" is\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're 'Look Left Look Right' theater company and we're doing an immersive promenade show in Covent Garden, in which audience members are led round individually by actors and they're given a whole performance lasting about an hour and ten minutes. I play Griselda, one of the ugly sisters and I talk to the audience a lot about my relationship with Cinderella's wicked stepmother. And we go into Whittard and we try tea, it's very interactive. I try and get the audience to talk to me as much as possible. But it's very safe, it's just questions like 'what's your favorite tea?' And all things like that. So we go around Covent Garden for an hour and ten minutes, just giving the audience hopefully what is an interactive, exciting, immersive experience.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide performance \"Once Upon A Christmas\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mimi Poskitt, Artistic Director, Look Left Look Right: on the logistics of putting on an interactive experience\u003cbr/\u003e\"So of course making a show in a live environment where the public is wondering around and you've got characters dressed in fabulous panto costumes mingling in and out of the crowds has its problems, but I think it also adds to the theatricality of it, because we have lots of people who know nothing about the show who are watching and engaging and enjoying the performances as they go on around them. One of the biggest logistics things is just moving an audience member through the space, connecting up all the scenes, using the wonderful venues that have donated space to us. So yes, but it all comes together into one fabulous melting pot.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide performance \"Once Upon A Christmas\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Euan Forsyth, actor: on what people can expect\u003cbr/\u003e\"It depends entirely on the audience member. You get a lot of people who book the show, knowing what kind of show it is and because they love that specific genre and they're really up for it, they love chatting, they're really excited, they wanted to get involved as much as possible. And you get some people that are really quiet and don't really know what to do, because it's not, it's not like sitting in the stalls, it's quite live and it's raw so you need to be on your toes, you need to be able to, the audience needs to sort of respond sometimes. If I ask you what you're favorite tea was and you didn't say anything, I would just have to coax it out of you. But a lot of people just then go on a five minute conversation about how much they love tea and what tea they love. So it depends entirely on the audience member, but 99.9 percent of the time it's really positive and they're really engaging with it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide performance \"Once Upon A Christmas\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Euan Forsyth, actor: on if this kind of immersive theater means the death of the Christmas panto\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well I don't think the old fashioned panto will probably ever die. But we're just trying to offer something alternative. You know I think immersive theater really has exploded in the last sort of 10 to 15 years in theater. It's something that the audience members are really after they want something a little more live and more raw, an experience they can have and share with people, rather than sitting in and watching something. This is something that is a lot more personal to that person. So I think that's why this genre has really exploded recently.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mimi Poskitt, Artistic Director, Look Left Look Right. on if this kind of immersive theater means the death of the Christmas panto\u003cbr/\u003e\"What this show offers is something a bit more alternative, it's a show to be done in pairs, it's a good date night, it's a really fun adult evening out and there's lots of lovely treats and surprises and snacks and drinks. I think it's just something a bit different but it has a good Christmassy panto feel to it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide performance \"Once Upon A Christmas\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mimi Poskitt, Artistic Director, Look Left Look Right. On the reaction from bystanders\u003cbr/\u003e\"Covent Garden in an incredibly Christmassy, theatrical place to be anyway. It's got such a wonderful history and a lot of our characters are drawing on the shops and the background and things that are going on here. So I think what we've tried to do is create people that feel like they belong in Covent Garden even if they are slightly over the top and slightly larger than life. So I think that just encourages people to watch and enjoy it and to come and see the story unraveling and we've got characters dotted all over Covent Garden, so people maybe as they're wondering and doing their shopping are seeing some characters in shops and other characters just out on the street.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. 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