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A SKIPTON theatre company has cancelled its play to help local farmers during the current foot and mouth crisis.

Sheep Town Theatre was due to perform The Globalisation of Veg Boy next Friday and Saturday in the main ring of Skipton Auction Mart.

But the company, which has a residency at the mart, is putting the play on hold so the venue can be used as a sales area for farmers following the lifting of the foot and mouth restrictions.

Sheep Town founder Thomas Aldersley, who wrote the play, said: "It is disappointing to have to cancel the production, but Sheep Town is fully supportive of the local farming community.

"My family are farmers in Tosside and their experience of foot and mouth was actually the inspiration for my very first play at the mart.

"I realise how important it is for the sales to take place so that farmers can get their livelihoods back on track after the recent foot and mouth threat.

"We are back at the Mart Theatre later this year with A Yorkshire Nativity and have rescheduled The Globalisation of Veg Boy for February 1 and 2."

Anthea Rathlin-Jones, the theatre's arts development manager, said other shows at the mart had not been affected. She will be writing to all those who have bought tickets for the cancelled play.

4:24pm Wednesday 3rd October 2007

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