Throwing knitted lightbulbs, bananas and even doughnuts at actors on stage might sound crazy, but at one Yorkshire theatre it has become a pantomime tradition. Catherine Scott reports.
"The theatre has to manage it well and be really careful when they hand them out and when they instruct people to throw them at a particular time that has been written into the script. They also need to be collected or else the actors could slip on them. ”
The Richmond Knitting group, Richmond. Natasha Cropper pictured knitting at Westfields allotment, Richmond. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme 15th August 2023 Avril agrees. “It always happens in the second half and people are told the exactly when to throw them.”Other knitted items have been used to decorate the building such as the 2,500 brightly coloured leaves that adorned a three-storey high beanstalk in 2015 and the giant patchwork blanket that covered the audience during Sleeping Beauty in 2018.
Last year, a batch of fish for Pinocchio arrived with a note from a lady in Northallerton writing on behalf of her elderly mother: “Mum is a very active 94-year-old, turning 95 on Christmas Day. Her favourite pastime now is to settle down and do a bit of knitting. I stitched the fish together for her and between us we have ended up with some passable items. It has given her a sense of purpose and she can still feel useful.
When the show is over, the theatre always tries to find homes for the knitted items and previously they have donated to schools, nurseries, church groups and the RSPB nature reserve at Saltholme, something Tony aoproves of.
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