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Glasgow theatres call for review of social distancing rules

Glasgow theatres among venues urging government to review social distancing rules
THE Tron Theatre and Citizens Theatre have joined a group of Scottish arts venues in urging the government to review current social distancing rules.
As part of The Scottish Theatre Producing Consortium, the city venues are asking that rules be reviewed to allow more audience members through the door, with claims that current two-metre social distancing rules would make productions financially unviable .
With current rules, The Tron Theatre - which has a capacity of 236 - would only be able to seat 14 people per performance.
In a survey by the Federation of Scottish Theatre, 96% of its members responded that it is not economically viable for them to reopen with a two-metre social distancing requirement. ....

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Covid Scotland: Theatres call on Scottish Government to review 'unviable' social distancing rules

Scotland’s leading arts and theatre venues are calling on the Scottish Government to reconsider the unviable social distancing requirements currently set to be in place as Covid restrictions ease.
Eleven theatres and performance art venues, including The Traverse Theatre, The Tron, The Festival Theatre, The King s Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and His Majesty s Theatre in Aberdeen say an urgent review is needed - or else significantly more public sector finance will be required to protect the already deeply damaged sector.
With the furlough scheme ending in September, many freelancers across the sector still excluded from support are desperate for work, and audiences have indicated they are confident and keen to return , the Consortium has said. ....

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Why Theatre Will Recover from COVID-19

Why Theatre Will Recover from COVID-19
Think theatre might struggle to recover from COVID-19? It s made quite a few comebacks before. We investigate when theatres went dark in the past, and what – or who – turned the lights back on
Article
by Eliza Gearty
| 16 Mar 2021
Last October, the journalist Ravi Ghosh put forward a daunting query in
Ghosh isn’t the only person who has considered this question. Andrew Lloyd Webber made headlines when he said that he didn’t think commercial theatre would survive the pandemic. On top of concerns over the economic destruction wreaked by COVID-19, and its implications for the performing arts, others have wondered if theatre will simply have the same appeal in a post-pandemic world. “When will we ....

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A wealth of complexities: How Scots, Gaelic and English are intertwined

By
Alan Riach
Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University
ESSAY
Author William Sharp, left, wrote under the pen name Fiona MacLeod. Lady Augusta Gregory wrote versions of Celtic stories akin to those of WB Yeats
BY some accounts, 19th-century Gaelic poetry is less impressive than that of the preceding century, yet on the evidence of Donald E Meek’s anthology of poems from that era, Caran an t-Saoghail/The Wiles of the World, it is rich and intricately connected with the processes of industrialisation, colonialism and imperial expansion, and thus also with what was happening in contemporary Scottish literature in English and Scots. Gaelic is essential to the national story. ....

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Covid restrictions putting TV sector workers at risk of burnout, MSPs told

MSPs were told about they impact Covid-19 restrictions have on filming (Nigel Roddis/PA)
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The physical and mental toll of coronavirus restrictions mean people working in film and television are at “great danger of burnout”, a leading writer has warned.
Filming work has now resumed after the initial Covid-19 lockdown, but Bill Armstrong, the Scottish chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, said the second lockdown has pushed many workers in the sector into “really quite desperate uncertainty”. ....

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