This year’s King’s Theatre Edinburgh panto will again be producing a relaxed performance and today a campaign to fund it was launched by Radio Forth’s charity Cash for Kids.
Relaxed performances are specifically designed to welcome people with a range of additional support needs including Autism Spectrum conditions and other sensory and communication disorders. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement in the auditorium and some small changes made to the light, sound and special effects of the show. An easy way to understand the atmosphere is perhaps, 'the opposite of the quiet carriage on the train'.
The special panto performance is dedicated to the pupils of Edinburgh’s special schools -Prospect Bank, Redhall, Rowanfield, Oaklands, Braidburn, St Crispin’s, Kaimes, Gorgie Mills, Panmure St Ann’s, Woodlands and Pilrig Park - and will welcome an audience of 1000 children and their carers from all eleven of Edinburgh schools for children with additional support needs.
Following the success of the inaugural relaxed performance of the King’s Theatre Edinburgh pantomime in January 2015, Forth 1’s Cash for Kids is delighted to announce they will support the event again next year, and have today launched the fundraising campaign to raise £30,000 for the relaxed performance of this season’s panto, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The stalwart and weel kent stars of the show, Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott, posed with the Cash for Kids mascot, Courage the Cat, to launch the campaign to take 1000 children and their carers from the city’s special schools to the annual favourite that is The King’s panto. Allan Stewart said, “We’re delighted to be doing the relaxed panto again. We had such a great time last year – the children loved it and it reminds us all that theatre and panto is for everyone.”
Ann Marie Miller, Charity Manager for Cash for Kids, said, “We’re proud to be supporting this wonderful event for the second year running. Cash for Kids is a local charity, helping local children and the relaxed performance provides a fantastic opportunity for children across Edinburgh to experience the magic of panto in an environment specifically designed for them.”
Cash for Kids fund for Relaxed Panto 2016 can be supported by visiting the following link:
http://www.forth1.com/charity/relaxedpantomime
The relaxed performance will take place on Thursday 14 January 2016.