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The new quality restaurant
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171-173 Faringdon Road
Swindon
Tel: 01793 616880
THE LINK MAGAZINk UIIk TO WHAT'S
NOW TAKING
CHRISTMAS
Win a family ticket: to Aladdin BOOKINGS

Preparations for the popular pantomime Aladdin at the Wyvern Theatre get underway in early December,
ready for a month of action packed with antics and enthrallinc special effects. Open Christmas Eve
& New Year's Eve
Like last year's pantomime, the
star attraction is an Australian, tel- Set Christmas menus
evision soap star Aleetza Wood from ' lv £12 50
from Home and Away.
See the adve rtisement below for 10% discount for
her co-stars in this year's produc- takeaway orders
tion which Wyvern manager Ted
Telephone orders welcome.
Doan says is a great show for the All prices inclusive of VAT
whole family. Seating for 120 people.
Private car park
COMPETITION For reservations,
Win a family ticket to Aladdin for call 616880
two adults and two children, by
Open six days a week
telling us what season it is now in
Monday-Saturday 12 noon-2.00pm
Australia. Send your entry to The Monday-Thursday 6.00pm-11.30pm
Link, Papermakers House, Friday & Saturday 6.00pm-12 midnight
Westlea, Swindon SN5 760 by
Monday 11 December.
Above: Launching Aladdin in June at the Chinese Experience restau-
rant, young dancers Laura Keogh holding up the dragon's haad and
Leanne Williams at the tail with Juliette Kaplan, Geoff Hinslif°, Bobby
Dazzler, Dennis Spencer and clowns Tweedy and Alexis ;i!, i.

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West Swindon actress to be a Christmas star :Peas vom Latf ar
, ' the summ w7ne
Katie Pitts-Drake from Shaw Ridge will be playing a major role in the
BBC's dramatisation of Lorna Doone to be broadcast on Christmas Day
and Boxing Day. , ) rr
The ten year old was very muddy,"
Shaw Ridge pupil she said. "The rest conw afion Bhaet's
Don Brennan as
will be playing the of the cast were Widow Twan&ry
part of the young very nice, espe-
Lorna, alongside cially Amelia
Barbara Flynn, Warner, the older
Amelia Warn-er Lorna and even the
and Martin Clunes. director, Mike
This is not Barker. "When we
Katie's first screen got something
role as she has wrong he would tell Se
previously ap- us what he wanted ar
Fam11y
peared in Casualty and asked us to do Wo , (
and plays a French it again," said Katie. Pa►tomrm¢
traveller in the yet to be released Mother Jane sees her daugh- Peta Janossi from ^,
arY Home & Away
fil m Chocolat. ter's confidence grow with every
She is an accomplished dancer part. "She revels in acting and takes 7^ ^^ s'
and has been studying with the it all in her stride." .. ca' 11,c C6inck. '• _c ucn - )r
Tanwood School of Dance since Katie will be one of the twenty-
I nls
she was five. Katie is now an four Tanwood dancers appearing
• Spencer
associate with the Royal Ballet in Aladdin at the Wyvern Theatre rL , y4^.tM^.+rtimmiwaw as Abvrfasar
School in Bristol, but of all the from 15 December until 13 Janu- ob the Tanwood Dancers
many dance styles she is learning ary. There are eleven other danc-
at Tanwood, jazz is her favourite. ers from West and North Swindon, as Wishee svom«w M T
Washes ppm¢rs , szauvo
The Lorna Doone role involved including Cheryl Heuston who was ^_ ^• ^ I WYVERN ITHEATRE
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fil ming on location in Farnham and chosen by director Charles Vance BOX OFFICE: 01793) 524481
Wales. "It was hard work in Wales to play the princess opposite 15 DEC 2000.13 JLI 2001 • PANTOMIME 0870 0063572-
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where the weather was bad and it Aleetza Wood from Home & Away.