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Stratford-upon-Avon indie theatre company Tread the Boards have fought against the odds to put on covid-compliant live arts | Updated: 23:30, 31 January 2021 John-Robert Partridge, artistic director of Stratford independent theatre company, Tread the Boards, shares the ups and downs from a tumultuous year. 2020: The season that never was The beginning of 2020 started out positively with rehearsals for Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night and Macbeth due to open in April. When the pandemic struck we were forced to close and had to explore alternative ways of paying our overheads; local government funding, âGo Fund Meâ pages and putting on zoom online acting classes. In the summer we toured an outdoor production of The Wind in the Willows which was a big success, was well attended and financially sustained us until Christmas. ....
The panto that goes wrong but was so right! | Updated: 18:15, 29 December 2020 by Peter Buckroyd Cinderella, Tread the Boards The Tread the Boards performers staged their production on an outdoor stage at Stratford Park and Ride. Photo: Mark Williamson. P18/12/20/8898. (43752142) Christmas in Stratford is never Christmas without Tread the Boardsâs pantomime, so it was with great excitement that in a year when we have been deprived of live cultural entertainment we were finally going to a live event, having booked for Christmas Eve. At first we expected to take our own chairs, blankets and faux fur coats and to make socially distanced groups in a hotel car park. Then the designated hotel closed and said they could not host the event. Eventually Stratford Racecourse - as ever flexible and imaginative - said it would host the event. Then the police decided that it could only be a drive-in event but that was ok with the racecourse. So performances went ....