BETH Morton was appointed artistic director of Mull Theatre last year. Many people will, no doubt, think that, living through the pandemic on one of the most beautiful islands in the Hebrides, she has lucked out.
However, wherever they happen to live, the health crisis has made the last 13 months an extremely difficult time for stage artists. Even now, with the vaccine rollout an encouraging credit to the NHS, theatre folk are resigned to the fact their industry will be among the last to fully reopen.
For some, such as Pitlochry Festival Theatre, the next step is to programme work to be performed in an outdoor auditorium. For Mull Theatre, it’s now time to launch work that was planned and created back in the darkest days of lockdown.