Coronavirus changed the scene and caused irreparable losses
An Egyptian text from 4,000 years ago heralds the recovery journey of British theater
Smaller productions are the ones that will be shown at the beginning.
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After going through a months-long hiatus, the British cultural sector is coming back to life again, but slowly.
Before the reopening of the first theaters in May, Julian Baird, who belongs to the "London Theaters Association", said that this is "the beginning of the recovery", to try to compensate for losses that are difficult to compensate.
The Change of Destiny, a theatrical version of a poem based on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian text, will be the first play to be shown to an audience online and in theater.
And theaters and theaters in England are currently allowed to re-receive audiences, whether in closed or open spaces, provided that they use only half of their actual capacity, in order to allow this to achieve separation between people.
“It means that only smaller-scale works will be seen at the start,” Bird said.
As for the big shows that are shown in (West End) in London, showing them in front of this small number of the audience will not be profitable ».
Musical performances such as "Mary Poppins" and "Hamilton" will not be seen again until later in the summer.
After easing restrictions further, which is scheduled for June 21, the participants in these performances hope that the rules of divergence will be relaxed and the attendance of more audiences will be allowed again.
"The next few weeks will be difficult financially, as rents and other fees will still have to be paid, even in light of the low numbers of attendees from the public," Baird said, adding, "However, it will lead to many people returning to work, as There are a lot of freelance workers, actors and musicians. ”
It is possible that some major production businesses will be smaller than before after the outbreak of the Coronavirus.
According to a report in The Guardian, a musical by famous composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, for example, will have to settle for far fewer musicians than before the outbreak.
The Tate network, which includes the well-known Tate Modern Museum of international modern art, and the famous Tate Britain Museum in London, will also have to accept measures to severely reduce the number of visitors.
Meanwhile, the impact of the epidemic is likely to be felt in cultural programs in the long term, but not only in a negative way.
It is noteworthy that “A Change of Destiny,” a theatrical version of a poem by the poet and booker prize-winning novelist, Ben Okri - based on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian text - will be the first play shown to an audience online and in the theater.
Bird, a theater expert, expects performances of this type to increase in the long term.
He explained, "Live broadcasts via the Internet allow theatrical acts to more individuals."
"Audiences who do not go to the big theaters, or who cannot attend for financial or health reasons, can participate in the experience, even if it does not replace the real-life experience," Bird says.
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