Country Life

Unexpected gifts of the pangolin

LIKE Dame Edna, we are looking for a New Norm. The business leaders are urging a return pell-mell to the Old Norm. But Old Norm is on life support, gasping for breath. We’ve learned a great deal, very quickly. One of those things is hubris. What if humans are the real virus?

Another is how to perform intimate cabaret when the other half of Kit and McConnel is on the other side of a large county and where the audience ishas arrived on YouTube, but ensemble? Intonation? Timing? Oof, it’s hard.

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