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Wonderful planned productions had to be cancelled or mothballed to next year. By halving the theatre’s seating capacity, a couple of concerts were able to go ahead and a live audience was joined by people at home watching live screenings. Luckily this solution is available for the Christmas offering from Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in an adaptation of Pinocchio by Anna Ledwich. Normally the show is presented with a cast of 60 plus. This year it has been reduced to two teams of 30 appearing in alternate performances. The familiar tale tells of a wooden puppet who becomes a boy and can’t stop getting into trouble when he sets out to discover the wonders of the world and make his fortune. But he discovers it isn’t easy hiding the truth – especially when your nose gets longer with every lie you tell.