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Editor s note: If you had to pick one word to describe the world of theater in 2020, that word might be âpivot.â
With a few local exceptions, Lancaster County theaters closed in March and have not reopened since. Many have found ways to connect with audiences online, through virtual performances â live or recorded.
This year, at least the early months of it, may find theaters continuing to pivot, as they adjust to whatever restrictions â indoor closings, reduced audience capacity, masking and social distancing requirements and more â the government and infectious-disease specialists may suggest or impose.
So theater companies are building flexibility into the 2021 season schedules they re announcing.
“An Historic Group: British and German Soldiers Photographed Together,”
Daily Mirror (London, England), January 8, 1915.
The fighting in Europe had been growing for almost five months when Pope Benedict tried to arrange a truce between nations in early December 1914 for Christmas. But his efforts failed when Russia declined the truce. The notorious trenches of World War I were filled with weary, cold soldiers. But along the British and German lines, a sudden rise of the Christmas Spirit among the soldiers created a phenomenon that wasn’t seen for the rest of the war the soldiers decided not to fight on Christmas. Stories of this unofficial Christmas Truce were published in newspapers around the world.
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The Prime Minister’s ability to strike up an unlikely rapport with the daughter of one of the EU’s founding civil servants was, I’m told, one of the keys to unlocking a deal.
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