Each year for the past sixteen years I have performed at the Pike Piddlers Storytelling Festival on the last weekend in January.
This fine festival begins in a unique way with a dinner theatre event in Friday evening. The Pike Piddlers Dinner Theatre is held in the little town of Brundidge, Alabama, which is in eponymous Pike County. This year I was privileged to sell stories with Dolores Hydock, Michael Reno Harrell, and Rev. Robert Jones.
The Pike Piddlers Theatre is in a building that formerly housed the Brundidge City Offices, including the jail. The interior of the building was destroyed in a fire some twenty years ago and, instead of tearing the brick walls down, it was converted into this wonderful sawdust floored theatre fully decorated with walls covered with primitive Alabama art.
Local musicians play during dinner time and then it is time for storytelling. Rev. Robert here takes the stage on his first visit to this festival.
One of the amusing and fascinating things about this recycled building is that the restrooms are built into the former jail cells in the back of the theatre. You have to go to jail to relieve yourself. You can see that no one could escape if locked up in one of these only two cells!
This really is a lovely little Festival. Trish and I will be back next year!
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