Friday 9th March
2012.
The People’s Hall Of Toft, Cambridgeshire.
People’s Order 1.
It is
decreed that entertainment is an egalitarian pursuit and should be delivered to
the masses on a fair and equal basis to inspire loyalty to the community and to
the People's Republic of Toft.
People’s Order 2.
That State Artistes Opera Dudes be invited to Toft to inspire local residents with performance of Licensed To Trill in the People's Hall of Toft on behalf of the Committee of Arts In Rural Cambridgeshire.
That State Artistes Opera Dudes be invited to Toft to inspire local residents with performance of Licensed To Trill in the People's Hall of Toft on behalf of the Committee of Arts In Rural Cambridgeshire.
People’s Order 3.
That the
word Audience be replaced with People’s title of Performance Recipients – Audience
being an honorific title implying a hierarchical system.
People’s Report. Comrade
Artistes Allen and Lole arrive at the state sponsored hall and are greeted by
Performance Commission.
Commissar Tebbit welcomes artistes and provides them
with refreshment produced by the hard work on the land.
Strict protocol is
observed and Opera Dudes are offered fair portion of Dundee cake, produced for
the glory of the common toilet by Comrade Joan.The Dundee cake is first tested
by Committee for its tenderness. Cake must always be soft in Toft.
The Comrade Artistes are
installed in the changing room in the roof space - the revolutionary loft in Toft - and introduced to Comrade
Martin, chief lighting, plumbing and computing delegate. (Committee to
investigate whether this much skill in the hands of one man is a true
representation of the democratic ideal.)
The Performance Recipients arrive,
refreshed from hard, honest work on the land. Refreshment continues throughout
the evening!
The Performance Recipients include
a world authority on snails, a linguistics Professor and a top barrister. People
of Toft are not sluggish when it comes to the semantics of the law!
State Artistes sing
revolutionary songs and sketches and even liberate the artistic expression of
one or two ladies! The performance is deemed a success and at the end of the
show, the Performance Recipients show their appreciation after a unanimous
vote.
The Opera Dudes reputation is held aloft in Toft.
.....In an egalitarian
fashion of course......
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The Toft People's Union of Revolutionary General Entertainments (PURGE) announces that, following the recent performance of patriotic songs at the People's Hall by the Opera Dudes, several persons have been tried and sent to re-education camps in the Comberton wilderness region for the offence of 'mere loud chuckling' (statute 287) and 'not participating in the people's belly-laughter' (statute 381). Video evidence was presented by the Normative Edificational Revolutionary Directorate (NERD) and the verdict was unanimous.
Signed this day.
Mactoft
Professor Of Linguistics And Performer Of Toft (POLPOT)
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