Thame Players Inundated With Offers

SINCE the announcement by Thame Town Council that it will not be selling tickets for local organisations once the TIC has closed, Thame Players have received several offers from town centre businesses to act as a ticket agency.
Thame Players’ spokesman, Tony Long, who has publicly voiced his disapproval at the town council’s decision not to take over ticket sales at One Stop Shop, told ThameNews.Net:”I never thought we would have a problem finding a way round selling tickets but my particular annoyance was the way the facility provided by the TIC was apparenty just abandoned. It is interesting that other people in the town have displayed the public spiritedness that the town council appears not to have shown.
“We still have a couple of months to go before the TIC closes and in the meantime we have narrowed the offers down to two or three, and my colleagues and I will decide which offer to accept.”
Mr Long also asked to put the record straight on a comment attributed to the Town Clerk, that appeared in the Thame Gazette recently, which suggested that Thame Players was a commercial organisation and so was not able to be supported by the town council.
“We are in fact a not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity,”he said. “No body in the organisation is paid a penny.”