Last modified on Fri 11 Dec 2020 07.53 EST
From an alleyway, I enter the Royal Court by a side entrance. The theatre has reopened after months of pandemic darkness but audiences are not invited to sit down and watch a show. In fact, the venue is no longer a theatre as we know it – because it has turned itself into a giant newspaper.
The first question is why? And how does theatre correlate to the news, anyway? Both forms are in the storytelling business but one reveals the world through fiction while the other trades in the daily delivery of facts and informed opinions, surely?