Horsham sixth-former 17-year-old Annalise Bradbury is stepping into Cinderella’s shoes in Chichester Festival Youth Theatre's new production of Cinderella on the main house stage this Christmas.
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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Now, it's
00:07really, truly lovely to speak to Cinderella, which you don't get the chance to do every
00:11day. Annalise Bradbury, you are Cinderella, one of the two Cinderellas in Chester Festival
00:15Youth Theatre's production, Cinderella, this Christmas on the main house stage. Cinderella,
00:20I never thought she was a particularly interesting character, but you've totally persuaded me
00:24because your production goes into so much detail and depth, doesn't it? And there's
00:28something there in that character. Yeah, we were, I was just saying about how we're
00:35really delving into Cinderella's character this year and her past and why she is who
00:40she is. And that's really due to her grief and the things that she's gone through with
00:46her mother passing, and the way that she connects with the Prince. And, you know, the fact that
00:51he's been through a similar pathway of grief and trauma and the way that he's been brought
00:56up. And it's really interesting to get to do that with this character, because it means
01:01that we can really see who she is. And, you know, we discover why she cleaves everything
01:09and why she responds to the step family how she does. And, you know, she has these little
01:13outbursts of her strength, and it's just really exciting. Yeah.
01:17It sounds fantastic. And the way you were talking about the fact that the Prince is
01:21grieving as well, that puts a completely different conviction on her relationship with him, that
01:26there is something that fundamentally links them, isn't there?
01:29Yeah. And the fact that they're both so young, and they're both going into the world at the
01:36same time and from completely different backgrounds, you know, but they both meet, you know, in
01:42the middle. And they meet when Cinderella doesn't know who he is. And I think that's
01:47the most special part is that they have that moment and that ting moment where they see
01:51each other and, and they really, like, connect with each other through what they've been
01:57through and through who they are because of that.
02:00Well, and you're going to have a fabulous time for the fifth successive Christmas on
02:05that stage with the Youth Theatre. That's quite some record, isn't it? Five big shows
02:09on the trotter.
02:10It is really amazing. I mean, the opportunities that we get here are just incredible. And
02:17it's so much fun. Yeah, we're all like family. So it just, it's what Christmas is for me.
02:22You've got probably another couple of years of Youth Theatre to go before you step out
02:26into the acting world, probably.
02:30That's the plan.
02:32Brilliant. Well, good luck with that. Really lovely to talk to you.
02:34Thank you so much.
02:36Very nice to chat to you.