South Africa's Fugard Theatre Permanently Closes Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Lebogang Mashile and television actress
Masasa Mbangeni are just some the many artists that shared their sadness on hearing the news.
According to
"We are not persuaded that it will be COVID safe or financially viable to reopen as a theatre in the foreseeable future. The theatre will be handed back to the owner of the freehold of the building- the board of The District 6 Museum as a working theatre and we hope that they will be able to use it for the benefit of the Museum and the District 6 community."
The theatre closed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa and launched the digital platform, "The Fugard At Home" shortly afterwards. The initiative streamed classic plays free of charge for a whole month between June and July 2020. However the 320 seat theatre that is housed by The District 6 Museum had to let go of majority its employees as the waves of COVID-19 persisted, this according to

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