Will a better world emerge from COVID-19? Salman Rushdie says no, if previous plagues are anything to go by
Author Salman Rushdie says he’s not convinced a better world will emerge from the lessons of the pandemic. His reasoning? A book about the Great Plague of London, 1665.
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Daniel Defoe s A Journal of the Plague Year shows some things haven t changed since 1665: Rushdie
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Posted: May 26, 2021 2:26 PM ET | Last Updated: May 26
Salman Rushdie says a book about a 1665 plague suggests that as a species, we haven t grown up very much since the 17th century. (Joel Sagat/AFP via Getty Images)
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Though our responses to pandemics have been surprisingly consistent across time, we’ve left one long-standing public health measure in the past: the practice of marking the homes of the sick.
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Maine’s two largest summer music theaters are taking different approaches to presenting live theater in their second seasons during the pandemic, but, like last year, neither will produce large-scale musicals on their longtime stages.
The Ogunquit Playhouse has constructed a massive covered outdoor pavilion on the pastoral playhouse lawn, where it will produce four Broadway-style musicals with seating for 450 people. Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick will produce a concert series, children’s productions and other events in its traditional home at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus, but is moving its signature mainstage productions to the Westbrook Performing Arts Center and presenting those shows in September and October.