Video: Meet the Worst Witches in the West End!

Hi, my name's Emma and I play Drusilla in the Worst Witch

And my name is Meg and I play Fenella. So Drusilla is Ethel's Little Evil Sidekick

She's very easily influenced, but I believe she's nice inside. A bit of a snitch as well

And Fenella, so she plays her bass guitar. She's quite a quiet girl at school, but spends most of the time in Music Corner

As a kid, I used to read the books. It used to be my go-to show after school straight away

3.30 p.m. watching the worst week. It was great. And for me it was fresh late

But it's great. It's an old female cast. So it's great to be a part of

Absolutely. I think it's such a strange vibe that you get. Like, everyone's so supportive of each other

And there's just a real strength there that we come together as a company. and it's really lovely it's funny it's really funny yeah for everyone as well

and I go for the easy obvious one magical yeah it warming yeah and family friendly Yeah and colourful Hello so we going to give you a sneak peek into how we make our laughter potion in the show

So, we've got our cauldron. Wait, whoa, wait. Safety goggles first. Safety first

Sorry, Jusilla. Okay. So we open our cauldron up and we have pondweed

So we take a few bits of pond weed and we grind it up like so

So this is if you want to make a laughter potion at home

And then we've got our vial of red solution which we've called cockroach blood. Yeah

And then you pull that in. Pour a bit this in. You have to make sure you get the measurements right or it might go on

And this one's just three drops of, what did we call this? That was Unicorn We, was it

Unicorn We. we so three drops one two three and then give it quick stir and then we take our two

tubes there you go if you hold those and I syringe them in There you go Thank you

And now there's a specific way of doing this spell that we've got from our book of spells

So the gesticulation is, one, two, three, and then ding, and then you drink

And you should burst out laughing. So we're going to show you how you make your very own tabby puppet

So what you'd need, if you have one at home, is a glove that you can decorate yourself

It could be black if you wanted a black cat or orange if you wanted a ginger cat

So you need a glove and you also need a sleeve, which I think if you've got a long sock and

you just cut off the end, you could use that as well. So do you want to demonstrate

Okay, so firstly you just put the glove on. and then you make this shape

So you put your two middle fingers to your thumb. And then you put it in the sleeve, half those out

and then use this end of the sleeve to go over the glove And then you got your cat Meow

Welcome to Ban Corner, which we call Batcave, because it's where Miss Bat lives

Now, I play the bass guitar and have done for about five years. As a kid, I played the guitar and then chose to pick up the bass

We have here a girl called Megan, who plays Miss Drill, and she plays percussion, drums, guitar

and clarinet and then Molly who plays Miss Bat who is sat where Emma sat

and she plays the piano the cello the guitar the dolcimer what else am I missing anything I don't think so and then Lauren who plays

Griselda plays the big alto sax um baritone sax not an alto sax it's a baritone sax

um yeah and here's one of them but here's a dolcimer Thanks for coming backstage with us. We've had so much fun with you guys. Make sure

remember how you make your laughter potion and your very own sock puppet and we'll see you

at the vaudeville. What's up? Witches! We're the witching kind