TUESDAY 16th MARCH
Tonight’s play is “THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM” written by Ends Wash and performed by Butt Drama Circle.(Open) Show Start at 8.15
Synopsis of Play:
Funny, tender-hearted and at times pitch dark, “The New Electric Ballroom” is a coiled, dark, glitter-dusted fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life.
Three sisters in a remote fishing village have incarcerated themselves at home. They engage little with the outside world and they while away the years repeating the same story to themselves at the same time every day.
The two elder sisters tell their younger sister of a moment in their teens where love failed them at ” The New Electric Ballroom” a showband concert hall.
The occasion should have led either one of the other to a “wonderous place” far from small-town eyes but failing to be “properly kissed” and the consequent disappointment has embittered them.
The sisters find the outside world is harsh, the village claustrophobic and “inside is safe”. They are women damaged and “stamped by story” and “boxed by words” and this is the lesson hammered home to younger sister Ada. Even the regular intervention of Patsy, fishmonger and jittery natterer, will not draw them out.
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THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM