Launched at the Allerdale Days event in Manchester, the troupe “Al and the Dales” will tour schools, sports halls and village fetes performing elaborate issues based theatre for under 12s.
In an exclusive for The Cockermouth Standard, Allerdale Council Leader and Cockermouth Labour Councillor Alan Smith said “It’s always been an ambition of mine to tread the boards. As an ex-steel worker, theatre is in my blood - why do you think The Full Monty was so successful?!”
“But I wasn’t going to strip down to my underkekkers for no one. And given Allerdale’s budget constraints, we have to think of innovative ways to make more money. So we have established Al and the Dales to tour the country to perform issues based theatre for kids.”
Al and the Dales launch in Manchester to a bumper crowd of 3
Al and the Dales will cover topics as diverse as friendship, drugs awareness, the political musings of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell and the virtues of neo-socialist collectivism. Billed as a family friendly show full of music, laughter and dancing, Al and the Dales will controversially attempt to explain how selling of council assets through the Allerdale Investment Partnership is a great idea through the medium of interpretive dance.
“Well no one bloody understands it do they?” added Coun Smith, “so we have had that Craig Revell-Horwood choreograph an interpretive dance routine to explain how flogging land off with this offshore lot makes the council shed loads of cash. We even have Coun Fryer lined up to play the panto dame! Oh no we haven’t?! Oh yes we have.”
The announcement of the new initiative has been met with distain in some quarters with opposition councillors lining up to criticise the new troupe. Conservative councillor Mark Jenkinson took immediately to Fyassbewk to attack the idea “It’s just this kind of waste that we have to come to expect from the Labour administration. Where were the open auditions?! I know I would have made a better back end of the panto horse than Coun Cannon! I will be FOI requesting the council to expose the selection process and costs to taxpayers. We have a right to know!”
In response, Coun Smith said “Typical Coun Jenkinson. If he came to some meetings that we held in private that he wasn’t invited to he would have known all about it. This scheme will make money. I mean come on, who wouldn’t want to pay to see me and Christine doing the Argentinian Tango in a scene about social media trolling? I know I would!”
Al and the Dales will be appearing at local events throughout the country soon.
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