THEATRE IN THE TIME OF COVID
Sep 15, 2020
5 minutes
PHOTO: The auditorium of Sydney’s Lyric Theatre.
HOW would you feel if you had to wear a mask to the theatre? If you had to stand in long queues to get through the doors, sanitise your hands and have your temperature checked on the way in? If ushers wore hi-viz vests and cleaners were evident everywhere? It doesn’t sound like a very glamorous or atmospheric experience, does it?
Such might be the conditions, however, of being in a large theatre audience while the coronavirus remains at large.
Each state in Australia is at different stages of controlling the virus but the resurgence of the virus in Victoria, as in other places around the world, show that the public will have to stay on guard until a vaccine
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