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'I crave flesh-and-blood actors, an audience that laughs and gasps as one': the magic of Christmas theatre by Arifa Akbar Interviews By Lyndsey Winship and Andrew Dickson

After a tough year for theatre, our chief critic celebrates the joy of the Christmas show, while five festive performers reveal how it feels to be waiting in the wings Remember your first ever Christmas show " its sparkle and magic, its tinsel and thrall? I watched my first pantomime in 1978, though I couldn't have named it as such. I was six, and still acclimatising to the shock of leaving sun-soaked Lahore to migra…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM on December 13, 2020

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