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[0:00] Tori Bullard: We would like to acknowledge the Thorowall people of the Eeura Nation and the Warwandjury people of the Coolin Nation.

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[0:25] Tori Bullard: The podcast celebrating theatre and creativity from on stage mishaps to career-defining moments.

[0:31] Tori Bullard: Hosted by Thespians, myself, Tori, and co-host Eliza.

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[0:40] Tori Bullard: Welcome everybody to our last episode of Stage Door Podcast for the season.

[0:46] Tori Bullard: Unfortunately, Tori couldn't join us today, but to get us into the holiday spirit, we are joined by Aisha Aidara, who will be playing Little Fan in the upcoming production of A Christmas Carol.

[0:58] Tori Bullard: Please welcome Aisha to the mic.

[1:01] Aisha Aidara: Hello, thank you for having me.

[1:03] Tori Bullard: Thank you for being here on this early morning on a Tuesday.

[1:06] Aisha Aidara: Oh no, it's my pleasure.

[1:08] Aisha Aidara: Tech Week, what a better way to start it.

[1:10] Tori Bullard: Yeah, you are in the theatre, so you do Tech Week as we speak.

[1:14] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, we just got into the theatre yesterday.

[1:17] Aisha Aidara: So we are smashing through the show. Everyone, all the newcomers are just absolutely smashing it out, and it's like everybody else has been describing it as coming home.

[1:29] Aisha Aidara: I guess like the set is so different to what the rehearsal room feels and looks like. So it's I remember last year when it was my first time, it was like a massive adjustment. And this time it's like exactly what I've wanted the entire rehearsal process.

[1:44] Aisha Aidara: So yeah, it's been really good.

[1:46] Aisha Aidara: It's always really magical when you get into the theatre for the first time.

[1:49] Tori Bullard: I know.

[1:49] Aisha Aidara: All the sets and the costumes, and you're like, oh, it's coming to life, finally.

[1:54] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, it really is.

[1:55] Aisha Aidara: I know. It's like a weird excitement because you've done it before, so it's not like a new experience, but it is like a refresher of what was there.

[2:06] Tori Bullard: Exactly, exactly. And I guess to kind of start us off, just so that everyone can get to know you a little bit.

[2:12] Aisha Aidara: Yeah.

[2:12] Tori Bullard: How did you first get your start in the world of theatre?

[2:15] Aisha Aidara: Well, I joined, I auditioned for a drama ensemble when I was like 11 years old, and it was in New South Wales, which is where I grew up. My best friend to this day and I both like on a whim got in the school newsletter that the New South Wales State Drama Ensemble were auditioning, and we were both like, oh, do you want to do it? Yeah, let's do it. And both of our mums, we didn't know this, but both of our mums were like conspiring behind our backs, and we're like, they're not gonna get in, it's gonna be disappointing. But we both got in and we did it every year up until we graduated, and then we both went to Sydney uni but took very different paths.

[3:03] Aisha Aidara: She's a lawyer, and I went I left Sydney uni, which you'll notice is a trend in my schooling career. I left Sydney uni to go to NIDA and do the diploma of musical theatre there, and then I went to VCA after that year at NIDA.

[3:26] Aisha Aidara: I love it, I love it.

[3:27] Tori Bullard: It's such a great experience. So getting I mean, VCA is such an amazing opportunity as well. And the because you did your diploma of music theatre at NIDA, are right?

[3:36] Aisha Aidara: I did, yeah.

[3:37] Tori Bullard: Yeah, because the diploma's kind of a really good like get you into it to then go into one of those courses.

[3:43] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, there are people that did the course with me who just did that one year and have been working consistently ever since then. So it's it's also fine to just do a year, or like my partner has never studied, and I think there's also a great benefit in just going for your opportunities because it I mean the qualification is a piece of paper.

[4:12] Aisha Aidara: What you can do with a text is completely self-generating. So, yeah, whatever feels right for a person, I think is the right move.

[4:24] Aisha Aidara: Like it was probably a perfect journey for me to not have finished my degree because I ended up doing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the end of my second year is when I booked that job, and it provided me with so much more knowledge than I think I would have been able to get out of myself at drama school.

[4:50] Aisha Aidara: Like there were just people who took me under their wings, like cast members and crew members alike, it was a way more fruitful learning experience for me to learn on the job. So I'm actually really glad that it turned out that way.

[5:09] Tori Bullard: So that's a good thing from jumping from one thing to another.

[5:12] Aisha Aidara: A hundred percent. There's never a through line, like we all think that. I think sometimes because there's a lot of other careers which are like you go to law school and then you become a lawyer, like with acting, it can catch you by surprise. You could exactly like yourself be in second year and book a show and be off and learn that way. And some people learn through education, and some people just learn from doing and being a part of the industry and working their way up.

[5:42] Aisha Aidara: So there's such merit in all of those things, and you just have to get what you need at the end of the day.

[5:48] Tori Bullard: Absolutely. And take your time because there's infinite time really.

[5:52] Aisha Aidara: Exactly. And I mean, this festive season, you are returning to be a part of A Christmas Carol. For those listening who might not know a bit about the show, can you tell us a bit about what the show's about?

[6:04] Aisha Aidara: Well, the show is the Charles Dickens novel adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne, who also wrote how you put it in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and writes a lot for Telly, actually. So he's a really good writer. It moves super fast, you know, you'll meet the ghosts of past, present, future, all of the characters that you sort of know and love from that, like whatever iteration of A Christmas Carol that you know, whether it's Scrooge McDuck or I don't know, some sort of I don't know if the Simpsons have done a Christmas Carol episode, but like whatever it is.

[6:44] Tori Bullard: I think they have, yes.

[6:45] Aisha Aidara: It will be that same storyline of you know a man who Eric Thompson is playing Scrooge this year and he's magnificent. It's just a redemption story and a story about hope and really embracing the community around you and finding love and light in I guess the mundaneities of our lives and how you can so easily sort of get yourself off track with pessimism and greed is another thing, like Charles Dickens wrote a lot about class, and our production doesn't fail to acknowledge that as well.

[7:38] Aisha Aidara: So it's just it is just A Christmas Carol, I think, in a really, really beautiful iteration of the story, and it's got some songs, and they lift you and they really buoy the story in this way. The music is by Chris Nightingale, and it just it sings literally. I think it is a beautiful show, and I am so happy to be a part of it.

[8:02] Tori Bullard: Yeah, it seems like I mean, every iteration of this kind of story has always got a little bit of it's got a lot of heart, and I end up crying at some points. I always feel like this is such an important Christmas story, and just such an important story for any human being at any point in their life.

[8:20] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, it is. Christmas is a time for people to, well, to quote the novel, Christmas is a good time, it's a charitable forgiving, pleasant time, and the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year where men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely and think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And that's that's the show.

[8:54] Aisha Aidara: I think in a quote, and that's Fred says that who's plays is Scrooge's nephew and Little Fan's son. So it's really beautiful. It's a beautiful, it's good writing. He knew what he was doing, this Dickens fella.

[9:13] Tori Bullard: Who would have thought?

[9:17] Aisha Aidara: I love it. And kind of this is your second season doing the show. How does it feel stepping back into the shoes of Little Fan? And have you discovered anything new about yourself or the character through this journey?

[9:29] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, it's so weird. Like I have spent the entire year. I don't want to say dreading coming back, but I a little bit reticent about what it was gonna feel like to be back in a role. I've never I've never ever done that, like done something, left, and then come back into it. So I was just like, oh no, have I grown up too much? Because she's so optimistic, Little Fan, and she's I think in a lot of ways the she's not the beating heart of the show, it's Scrooge, but like he needs her, and she so facilitates that journey for him to redemption and to happiness and hope and to finding light that it's saying that I'm like, well, it's a it's a felt like a big I guess a not a burden to carry, but it feels like a pretty massive role to play.

[10:34] Aisha Aidara: So I was a bit worried about that, but like day one, it felt so right, and it just it fits like a glove, and there's you don't have to just have I for me it's not just about her optimism, there's there's a realism in her as well that means she can in this version of it change her brother for the better, and so I I guess I was just it was just a feeling of anticipation that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding because I didn't know what I was going into again for the second time.

[11:21] Aisha Aidara: So that's actually a really pleasant experience to have.

[11:26] Tori Bullard: Yeah, I feel like when you think about going back to a role, you're like, Can I still do that? I think there's something about when you go back, you've changed so much, like even in a year, anyone changes a lot in a year, and they bring new things with them into those roles, into those characters, and you discover more about yourself as you mature through age, and yeah, there's something different and beautiful that you can bring to it, even if you've done it before, it'll be different again every time.

[11:55] Aisha Aidara: And maturing doesn't mean you lose that, like changing over a year doesn't mean you lose any parts of yourself, you're literally just changing, and it's actually a good reminder to be like, oh, hold on to some bits of you and treasure them. That's what I think has been a really valuable thing about coming back into this.

[12:18] Tori Bullard: And I mean, on that kind of note of change, we have a whole like not a whole new cast, we have a few new cast members. What has the rehearsal process been like working a lot alongside both new and old cast members and creatives?

[12:33] Aisha Aidara: It's been really good for me, but I remember last year stepping into it, how stressed I was because everybody seems like they know what they're doing, and I was like, oh, I don't like I just didn't I just it was it was all going in so fast and we felt like a really fast rehearsal process for me this year, but I'm sure for the new cast members, they picked it up like that, but I I can only imagine how much work they were doing behind the scenes to get themselves to that point.

[13:15] Aisha Aidara: They're all amazing, they're all so hardworking and really playful. I think is you know, in the face of what I was last year, which was blind panic, they've been so playful, and like you know, we've got Eric Thompson, Carrie Mida Judge, has stepped into the role of Jess this year, Tim Wright has stepped into Bob Cratchit, Tony Cogan is playing Marley, who is Scrooge's partner.

[13:46] Aisha Aidara: Yes, beautiful. You love Tony Cogan.

[13:52] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, yeah, yes, he's a one there. Who else is new? Alison White, who I have I did Death of Salesman with her this year, so it's nice to we've just been bouncing along, sort of.

[14:05] Aisha Aidara: But it's nice to start the year with her and end the year with her.

[14:09] Aisha Aidara: Um who else has stepped in?

[14:11] Aisha Aidara: And Felix Starr has stepped into the role of young Ebenezer this year.

[14:16] Aisha Aidara: Um I really hope I've not forgotten anyone.

[14:20] Aisha Aidara: But they're all incredible.

[14:23] Aisha Aidara: They're really, really great.

[14:24] Aisha Aidara: And the creative team have also been, you know, really kind, really generous with their time and patience and facilitating the journey in a way that means that we do get the playfulness out of everybody and it feels like a fresh show.

[14:24] Aisha Aidara: It feels like a different show.

[14:46] Aisha Aidara: I'm sure it felt like that for the people who this is their third time around, but it because Eric is so different to what Owen was like, it's in the best way, like it changes the way that the story feels and it means that you have to play your scenes in a different way and it becomes so alive because of that, which is a nice exercise as an actor to have.

[15:13] Aisha Aidara: Like don't fall back on your habits and stick with your scene partner and keep playing and reacting.

[15:24] Aisha Aidara: So it's been really, really awesome for that.

[15:26] Aisha Aidara: I love that.

[15:26] Aisha Aidara: I love the unpredictability of that.

[15:28] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, you're staying alive within the scenes and they're continuing to be more organic and moving along rather than okay.

[15:35] Aisha Aidara: This is what we did last year, so you have to do this exact thing on this.

[15:39] Aisha Aidara: Exactly, exactly.

[15:41] Aisha Aidara: That's not fun to do that, is it?

[15:43] Aisha Aidara: So that's yeah, I've loved that.

[15:45] Aisha Aidara: Well, we're gonna do a little bit of a game now, and this is I decided because we're in the holiday spirit, we'll do a holiday ick or no ick.

[15:55] Aisha Aidara: Let's do it.

[15:55] Aisha Aidara: So this is basically if you like something, it's a no ick.

[16:00] Aisha Aidara: If you're like absolutely not, can't do that, it's an ick.

[16:03] Aisha Aidara: Excellent.

[16:04] Aisha Aidara: Okay, being woken up early on Christmas, or in general, early morning rises.

[16:10] Aisha Aidara: Uh, not an ick.

[16:12] Aisha Aidara: Not ick.

[16:13] Aisha Aidara: Big yay for me.

[16:15] Aisha Aidara: Love it.

[16:15] Aisha Aidara: I'm like, come on, let's get going for the day.

[16:17] Aisha Aidara: My least favorite thing is losing the day to sleep.

[16:23] Aisha Aidara: Yes, I love that.

[16:26] Aisha Aidara: Okay, tacky Christmas trees.

[16:28] Aisha Aidara: Is it an ick or a no ick?

[16:30] Aisha Aidara: What's tacky?

[16:31] Aisha Aidara: Define tacky.

[16:32] Aisha Aidara: Like, do you know?

[16:32] Aisha Aidara: Okay, do you know those Christmas trees where you put everything on?

[16:36] Aisha Aidara: Like, there is the baubles, like a hundred million mismatched baubles.

[16:40] Aisha Aidara: Organised chaos.

[16:42] Aisha Aidara: Yes, yes.

[16:43] Aisha Aidara: Big not an ick.

[16:45] Aisha Aidara: Big not ick.

[16:46] Aisha Aidara: Big no ick.

[16:50] Aisha Aidara: I love it.

[16:51] Aisha Aidara: Am I doing the lingo right?

[16:52] Aisha Aidara: I don't know.

[16:53] Aisha Aidara: Yes.

[16:53] Aisha Aidara: Not an ick.

[16:54] Aisha Aidara: Yes, you are.

[16:56] Aisha Aidara: Okay, Christmas cookies.

[16:59] Aisha Aidara: Oh, fantastic.

[17:01] Aisha Aidara: Fantastic.

[17:02] Aisha Aidara: Fantastic.

[17:04] Aisha Aidara: Oh.

[17:06] Aisha Aidara: Do you like that?

[17:07] Aisha Aidara: I actually like that.

[17:08] Aisha Aidara: No one's done that yet.

[17:09] Aisha Aidara: Oh, you can have that.

[17:10] Aisha Aidara: That's for free.

[17:12] Aisha Aidara: Thank you.

[17:13] Aisha Aidara: I'll take it.

[17:15] Aisha Aidara: Now this is so interesting.

[17:17] Aisha Aidara: But elf on a shelf.

[17:19] Aisha Aidara: Have you heard about elf on a shelf?

[17:21] Aisha Aidara: Okay, yes.

[17:19] Aisha Aidara: Elf on a shelf is just a dude.

[17:24] Aisha Aidara: He sits on a shelf and he is an elf, I'm guessing.

[17:29] Aisha Aidara: Des is just that guy, right?

[17:32] Aisha Aidara: That sits on the shelf.

[17:33] Aisha Aidara: It's that guy, and apparently, well, it's interesting because some people do it with their kids, like the elf is spying on them.

[17:41] Aisha Aidara: And I'm like, yeah.

[17:43] Aisha Aidara: So in that instance, like it's like an elf that spies on you to make sure you're good throughout the Christmas period.

[17:50] Aisha Aidara: Okay.

[17:51] Aisha Aidara: As a person that doesn't have kids and doesn't like the idea of surveillance, I think elf on the shelf is gonna get the ick for me.

[17:59] Aisha Aidara: Fair enough.

[18:02] Aisha Aidara: It does.

[18:02] Aisha Aidara: I got like an elf on the shelf from one of our family members, and I'm like, every time I look at it, I'm like, I'm getting the ick.

[18:08] Aisha Aidara: I feel like I'm being no.

[18:10] Aisha Aidara: Toy Story did that to us.

[18:12] Aisha Aidara: Toy Story ruined the toys not being sentient things for me.

[18:17] Aisha Aidara: But I love elves, love elves, no hate to elves.

[18:20] Aisha Aidara: No hate to the elves, no.

[18:23] Aisha Aidara: And lucky last, singing plush animals.

[18:26] Aisha Aidara: You know how you've got like Santa singing and all of those, yeah.

[18:30] Aisha Aidara: Fantastic.

[18:32] Aisha Aidara: Fantastic.

[18:33] Aisha Aidara: I love that.

[18:34] Aisha Aidara: I love it.

[18:35] Aisha Aidara: I love them.

[18:35] Aisha Aidara: Thank you very much for playing Ick or No Ick Christmas edition.

[18:39] Aisha Aidara: Oh, thank you for that.

[18:39] Aisha Aidara: Um which actually brings us into my next question.

[18:44] Aisha Aidara: So as you're performing throughout the holiday period, do you have any holiday traditions you're gonna do with the cast?

[18:51] Aisha Aidara: Ooh, well, we do dressing room door decorations.

[18:57] Aisha Aidara: Well, we did that last year.

[18:59] Aisha Aidara: I don't know if it's a tradition if I've only done it for one year, but like we did tinsel and all of that organized chaos in the room.

[19:11] Aisha Aidara: There's on Christmas Eve, we I we have a Christmas Eve show, and between shows on Christmas Eve last year, everyone went to the park and did like Secret Santa or whatever you call it, KK, that thing.

[19:27] Aisha Aidara: Um Bernard Curry dressed up as Santa last year, so somebody else is gonna have to do it this year, I guess.

[19:33] Aisha Aidara: I guess it will be maybe me.

[19:36] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, I was gonna say, maybe you should dress up as Santa.

[19:39] Aisha Aidara: It's the role I've been destined to play.

[19:42] Aisha Aidara: Um yeah, that's I think that's sort of it.

[19:47] Aisha Aidara: Doing the show.

[19:48] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, doing the show is a Christmas tradition in itself.

[19:51] Aisha Aidara: It's a big Christmas tradition.

[19:53] Aisha Aidara: No, that's beautiful.

[19:54] Aisha Aidara: I love that.

[19:55] Aisha Aidara: I love a good KK, a good dressing room door decoration competition.

[20:01] Aisha Aidara: That's perfect.

[20:02] Aisha Aidara: Now, your first performances start this week.

[20:05] Aisha Aidara: Um as a bit of like a tips and tricks for any listeners who might be performers.

[20:09] Aisha Aidara: Do you have any tips that help you manage the eight show week?

[20:13] Aisha Aidara: Ooh, I think I heard once to keep yourself busy during the days and not because it's really fatiguing to do an eight-show week.

[20:25] Aisha Aidara: Luckily, the show's actually pretty short.

[20:28] Aisha Aidara: Um, so it you don't get home too late, but getting up early, like and keeping your, you know, your fitness routine or whatever it is that you actually like to do that gives you fulfillment outside of doing the show.

[20:44] Aisha Aidara: Do that and don't like obviously take your rest days, that's what your days are for, but do things that you love outside of the show at the same time so that you're not just spending all your energy here that you leave and are so exhausted and you don't get any spark anywhere else.

[21:08] Tori Bullard: No, that is actually really good advice.

[21:10] Tori Bullard: I think sometimes shows can be really consuming, so it's really nice to have stuff outside of that that keeps you going and keeps you moving.

[21:18] Tori Bullard: So that your mental health is in a good spot as well.

[21:20] Aisha Aidara: Leave your work at work, yeah.

[21:22] Tori Bullard: Now, being a much loved show, both overseas and within Australia, why do you think this show resonates so much with audiences time and time again?

[21:32] Aisha Aidara: I think people have a really large emotional response to this show because we all have a Scrooge in us, we all have regrets, we all have taken turns in our life that feel maybe like they weren't our best version of ourselves, and I don't think that's a thing that we are great at acknowledging culturally, and I think this show puts it to the forefront.

[22:06] Aisha Aidara: Like the people that you see crying the most are sort of the older folks in the audience and like older men in the audience.

[22:16] Aisha Aidara: It really touches them the idea of introspection is not a thing that would necessarily have been socialized to learn, so that's I think that's the special part of the show, and obviously, like you get the fun Christmas hilarity at the same time, but the heart of the show is what keeps people coming back for more.

[22:44] Aisha Aidara: There's obviously shows that are pure entertainment and just escapism, and then there are shows that make you look at your life and just go, oh, am I leading my life in the way I want to lead my life?

[22:57] Aisha Aidara: Am I being a Scrooge?

[22:59] Aisha Aidara: Am I not being a Scrooge?

[23:01] Aisha Aidara: And it gives you that perspective.

[23:03] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, and forgiveness of yourself and forgiveness in other people is something that I think could be exercised 100% more readily in our culture.

[23:16] Aisha Aidara: So that's why I love this show, and I think that's why other people love it.

[23:23] Aisha Aidara: But you'd have to ask them.

[23:27] Aisha Aidara: And you have to come see the show.

[23:29] Aisha Aidara: You're gonna have to see it and find out, I guess.

[23:33] Aisha Aidara: Find out why you love it.

[23:35] Aisha Aidara: Exactly.

[23:37] Aisha Aidara: I could literally talk to you all day about all of this, but that was actually the end of our questions for today, and I really appreciate your time.

[23:46] Aisha Aidara: Um, but before we go, we actually have a little bit of a segment called bedtime stories, which is a stage mishap or something that's gone wrong.

[23:53] Aisha Aidara: Can you give us your bedtime story?

[23:56] Aisha Aidara: This is a great segment.

[23:58] Aisha Aidara: Thank you.

[23:58] Aisha Aidara: Um so I yes, I'm very prone to falling, actually.

[24:07] Aisha Aidara: I'm like a baby deer.

[24:09] Aisha Aidara: And I was in Harry Potter, I played Rose Granger Weasley for two years, and then when we got the like we got a three-month extension on it, and I was like, oh, you know what?

[24:25] Aisha Aidara: I'm gonna become a swing just so that I can play a couple of other little tracks and make the most of the end of my time here.

[24:34] Aisha Aidara: And one of those tracks was um what's her name?

[24:37] Aisha Aidara: Madam Hooch, and there's this sequence in Harry Potter where you go up the stairs.

[24:44] Aisha Aidara: I don't know if you saw it, but there's like moving staircases that people push around, and it's called the staircase ballet because it looks like the stairs are sort of dancing, and Albus and Scorpius are running up the stairs, climbing down the stairs.

[25:00] Aisha Aidara: Anyway, Madame Hooch gets up the stairs and tells Scorpius to move over and get out of her way, and I did that, and then on my way down the stairs, I tripped, and I don't know how many stairs are in the stairs, but there's got to be at least like I don't know, 15 or 20, and I just had a good like and I slid right up the stairs and into the wing, and that was I've got the footage of it, but it it that's yeah, it was I heard the audience go it was a big fall.

[25:41] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, it was a big fall.

[25:43] Aisha Aidara: Were you okay?

[25:45] Aisha Aidara: I still to this day have a lump on my left buttock from it.

[25:52] Tori Bullard: Oh my goodness.

[25:54] Tori Bullard: That's wild.

[25:55] Tori Bullard: I can't believe you fell down the stairs.

[25:57] Tori Bullard: I can imagine it was quite intense with all of these staircases moving and you falling down the stairs.

[26:03] Aisha Aidara: Yeah, it was it was look, it happened in a flash, so I can't remember it.

[26:09] Aisha Aidara: Luckily, there's footage of it that I can look back on and go, oh yeah, that did happen.

[26:13] Aisha Aidara: But I was like a cartoon character when I went down those stairs, it was so fast.

[26:19] Tori Bullard: I just love that there's footage.

[26:21] Aisha Aidara: Oh yeah, yeah.

[26:23] Aisha Aidara: I don't know if I'm supposed to have it.

[26:25] Aisha Aidara: Oh but you gotta, you gotta.

[26:31] Tori Bullard: That's too good.

[26:32] Tori Bullard: Well, thank you very much for sharing this story.

[26:36] Tori Bullard: And thank you for coming on today.

[26:37] Tori Bullard: I'm so excited for you returning to this role and this show.

[26:41] Aisha Aidara: Thank you.

[26:41] Aisha Aidara: And I hope everyone listening will be able to go and watch it.

[26:45] Tori Bullard: Are you able to give us a little bit of uh where should we find you on Instagram?

[26:50] Aisha Aidara: Where are tickets?

[26:52] Aisha Aidara: And how long is it on for?

[26:53] Aisha Aidara: I would just look up Christmas Carol Melbourne and go through the ticket tech link.

[26:59] Aisha Aidara: It's playing at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne.

[27:02] Aisha Aidara: We start previews this Friday and we'll be running to the end of December with a potential week in January.

[27:12] Aisha Aidara: And me, I'm Aisha.idara on Instagram.

[27:18] Aisha Aidara: I'm not much of an Instagram user, I'm more of an Instagram stalker.

[27:21] Tori Bullard: Beautiful.

[27:22] Tori Bullard: Well, everyone, go and follow along.

[27:25] Tori Bullard: Also, if you're in Melbourne, go and see the show.

[27:28] Tori Bullard: This is gonna be a pretty special holiday season.

[27:31] Tori Bullard: And also thank you everyone for joining us for this entire year.

[27:35] Tori Bullard: It's been amazing having these incredible guests on.

[27:38] Tori Bullard: And if you liked us, read and review us and stick around for next season because we've got lots of fun things planned.

[27:46] Tori Bullard: But until next time, stay happy, healthy, and safe, and we'll see you then.

[27:50] Tori Bullard: Bye.