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Friday, December 18, 2020
It's time for theatres to stop treating front-of-house staff as disposable
Exeunt Magazine: “My front of house colleagues and I were told to ‘watch our emails, because some news is gonna come through’ and then the next day, it was like ‘Okay, you’re fired.’”
I’ve sat poring over statements like this by front of house (FOH) workers for several days now and it’s staggering how many of us have gone through almost the exact same experience, during the mess we’re (still) in. It’s shocking, but not surprising.
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