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Feb. 24, 2021
Udi Ben Moshe, artistic director of Jerusalem’s Khan Theater, paced nervously in the stone courtyard on Tuesday evening. He was preparing for the curtain to rise on the first theater production in Israel – and likely the world – in which the cast, crew and audience were all fully vaccinated against or recovered from the coronavirus.
His fears as Noël Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” was about to begin, he said, were not directly connected to coronavirus infections. They were a form of pandemic-related opening night jitters, concern that social distancing and masks could dampen the atmosphere of the lighthearted comedy he had directed.