A Backstage Panacea to Loneliness

For me, the theatre provided a panacea to loneliness at boarding school on many occasions, theatre provided me with a family.

Theatre and live performance have been terribly badly affected by the COVID pandemic. Around the world venues have been dark for months, many of the workers forced to leave the industry to find an income elsewhere. 

An article in this week’s papers focusses on the return to rehearsals for the highly-regarded Melbourne Theatre Company. In March last year,…