Theatre | The Guardian: In the six months since they closed due to the pandemic, theatres have been wrapped in pink ribbon, lit up in red or simply left boarded up. More than 5,000 jobs have been lost, with redundancy consultations ongoing across the country; 70 per cent of theatres face permanent closure. The West End, reliant on tourism that the crisis has all but expunged, is an economic time-bomb. A significant proportion of freelance creatives have received no government support.
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I am so genuinely distraught. The loss of so many jobs in the entertainment industry is sad. The fact that I can’t normally go and see a show anymore… or normally partake in any activity to support this dying industry is sadder. This quote from the article, “Do they sit it out and look for temporary employment, or consider leaving the industry altogether to find more stable streams of income?”... this made me physically hurt. Not only because I imagine a life working in this industry, but to imagine spending so much time, work, effort, into creating a job in your craft, all for it to be ripped away by something you have no control over. That thought makes me recoil.
Reopening theatres doesn’t feel like the answer to me though. It’s worrying. I don’t want to scratch the scab before it’s been healed. But I know the theatre industry is getting desperate. And if I wasn’t in school and I was already in the workforce, I would be desperate too. So all I can do now is feel bad and try to hope for a better tomorrow… which is also sad.
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