Will Antenbring is relishing his professional stage debut in Coram Boy at Chichester Festival Theatre, a piece in which angels and abandoned children, glorious music and murder most foul whirl through a moving and richly-colourful tale of 18th-century England (until June 15).
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00:00 Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Really lovely
00:07 to speak to Will Antenbring this morning. Now, Will, you are going to be in Coramboy
00:12 at Chichester Festival Theatre this summer, the second play on the main house stage, but
00:15 really the super exciting thing is this is your professional stage debut. Does that fill
00:20 you with nerves? Does it fill you with excitement? What is it? What's the significance of that?
00:26 I'm more than anything just extremely, extremely excited. After getting here, we got here a
00:33 couple of days ago, having a look around the place, being so welcomed by everyone. It's
00:39 been hard to feel the nerves. There are nerves, but I'm just very, very...
00:42 That's good, isn't it?
00:44 Oh, always good. I think if you don't have nerves, then nothing can really, really happen
00:49 on stage. But yeah, I just can't wait to get out and do the play. And it's such a good
00:55 play as well. So brilliant.
00:56 Let me ask you, what makes it a good one then to be your debut?
01:00 I think it's so rich. It's a hefty play as well. But it really justifies its runtime
01:11 with the amount that it covers. There's music, dancing. There'll be a live band playing at
01:20 the back during some scenes. And singing. We've got the younger version of me in the
01:28 play. Iz is a brilliant singer. We've got some brilliant singers. So it would just be
01:34 a wonderful event play.
01:36 It's a piece that sounds quite difficult to describe because it touches on so much, doesn't
01:40 it? It's big things happening in this opera.
01:44 Yes, indeed. I've tried to... It's almost one you have to look at with buzzwords kind
01:50 of thing.
01:51 Go on then.
01:52 Rather than buzzwords, be it.
01:54 Pardon?
01:55 It's music, Baroque music handled specifically. I'd say orphans, 18th century, death, aristocracy.
02:08 It's just, yeah, there's a lot going on.
02:13 That sounds suitably intriguing and exciting. Lovely to speak to you and very best wishes
02:18 for that professional stage debut. Thank you so much.
02:21 Thank you.
02:22 Thank you.
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