Like Bees

Following my dream of a theatre inside a beehive - I know there’s one person I need to get in touch with Kirsty Williams - Professional Beekeeper in the Ceiriog Valley and Scotland. I wasn’tsure how it would be as I’d had to resign as a Director from their community project due to Jobcentre rules. Kirsty embraced me with open arms and loved this idea - I’d offered to pay for an old hive but she didn’t want me to pay for anything. We decided that for table top theatre an old brood box might be the easiest bit of kit to start with. She took me up to her bee shed and I felt my heart opening with the smell of honeyed wax. It felt like a home coming. Kirsty told me tales of her and her sisters putting on endless performances in miniature theatre. She said she’d be my first customer. Kids love looking inside a beehive she said - its so multi-sensory, she does talks for schools and community groups. Her enthusiasm spurs me on, I take the brood box back to the studio and find myself trying to put wax frames at the front. Mine are new and for honey supers not brood size - so they don’t meet in the middle. I return to Kirsty, she allows me to choose from the old used brood frames she uses to attract swarms in - still dripping with left over honey - I get it all over the car and I’m happier for it. The smell is amazing. I’m reminded how much we are like bees Kirsty and I.