BBC News By Ian Youngs image copyrightGetty Images The stage is set for English theatres to reopen from Monday, and venues are banking on crowds returning this summer. Which shows are opening, will audiences return - and could the comeback be short-lived? If a playwright had written the pandemic, a theatre critic might have struggled to pin down its genre - tragedy, thriller, depressing kitchen sink drama or farce? But they might have recognised the writer's skill in timing the plot twists. Just as you think you're finally getting to the happy ending, the suspense, tension and terror begin to build again.