At the White Elephant Enclosure
The May calendar kicks off with a workshop for the Boredom Project, an idea designed to put money into the pockets of the organiser and which will attract around five members of the community who are being encouraged to take part with an offer of free food (paid for by Smalltown and Dullbridge Town Council) and transport.
The Boredom Project aims to create a play about an old pile of wood on Barrow beach, with contributions from the community. Sadly the community has thus far proved themselves not very interested in the idea.
It’s all go for the Coronation Weekend with the celebration being shown live on the big screen on Saturday. Despite the offer of a free cream tea (paid for by Smalltown and Dullbridge Town Council) there are still plenty of tickets available.
Sunday night sees the Smalltown and Dullbridge Brass Band take to the stage in a Coronation Celebratory Concert. Hopefully between now and Sunday more tickets will be sold to add to the six which have been snapped up.
Who knows, perhaps the WEE Smalltown Culture and Media Person (SCAMP), Billy Elliot might even pull his finger out and do some promotion and marketing for the event.
Theatre National Live returns on 16 May, with a screening of ‘Worst of Enemies’.
The plot centres around 2022 Smalltown, where two men fight to become the next Cuonty Councillor and all eyes are on the battle between the cunningly conservative Squire Teflon and the unruly liberal Jock McCads.
So far four tickets have been sold, probably to Squire Teflon and Jock McCads, plus two friends.
Then it’s onto the Smalltown Literary Festival, running from 19 to 21 May. Despite only being a three-day event, the organisers have managed to cram in 19 different listings covering a wide variety of talks and workshops, all revolving around books.
Without the LitFest the White Elephant Enclosure would be struggling to get bums on seats during May, given that the WEE staff must be having the rest of the month off, with absolutely no further shows scheduled until June.
Sadly, despite drawing in the crowds, the LitFest is unlikely to be adding any much needed revenue to the WEE coffers as it is a hire event, rather than a WEE programmed event. This is not necessarily a bad thing, since any show organised by the WEE fails to break even and is more likely to end up swallowing more Council Tax funding.