![]() But I think that that just made me more desperate for Harry Potter to come back because it was weird being in the same space, but it not being our show. So, I got a little bit of a taste before Harry Potter came back. I actually did a show over the summer at The Palace, that wasn’t Harry Potter. Abbie Procter, Assistant Stage Manager, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace TheatreĪ long time coming, I think. I think when you hear that, it really resonates with me of why I do this job. My favourite thing about working in the theatre is that in the moments of a play, you can have 1,400 people pure silent, and just on the edge of their seats, waiting to see what happens. And it’s amazing to be able to do that every single night.Īnd finally, what is your favourite thing about working in the theatre? Everything that they have been missing for so long. And especially now we’ve got, you know, audiences coming in that are just craving to see the story again and see magic again and theatre again and hear like the music, the score, the set. You kind of… you know the show and you know what it’s gonna be like. But also, like doing Harry Potter for… this is my third year now. I mean every morning when I wake up, I’m like I just want to get into work. But it’s been… the day that I got to walk in the stage door and just kind of go up to the dressing room. All that stuff that we hadn’t been doing for so many months. I’m trying to get the fitness back, trying to get the energy back. ![]() So, coming back it was a big shock to the system. But hey, we had to had to go and get some money and things like that. I was working over there doing construction, which was like totally not what I like to do. What has the journey been like getting back to the theatre reopening? Craig Connolly, Hogwarts Student, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre ![]() Yeah, it’s just that level of togetherness is fantastic. It’s so amazing to have everyone come back and everyone is OK. The cast and the crew and people in hair and makeup and everything. But yeah, it’s very full on.Īnd what did you miss the most about live performance and being onstage? It’s 12-hour days and full houses again and all of that stuff. It’s great, the show is like a train that doesn’t stop, it’s an unstoppable express. It’s a huge mix.Īnd how is it now that you’re back and that things are starting to return to a new form of normality? The new normal? You spend so much time with these people and you do… you’re very vulnerable, the work that you’re doing with them. But, it’s nice to come back to something where you feel you’re with people who are like family. So that’s… it’s difficult, and it’s amazing to try and get back there and succeed, in a lot of different ways, because you’re very different. Just because you go through something so full of grief and confusion and kind of come out the other side, but then you’re also trying to come back to where you were in the first place. It’s been… fun, stressful, anxiety inducing and slightly surreal. What has the journey been like getting back to the theatres reopening? Valerie Antwi, Hogwarts Teacher, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre
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