What has been heard from the region's small theaters in recent weeks and months is a warning sign, a thick, red exclamation mark. And we'd all do well to look and listen. The news is: if something doesn't change soon, if the audience doesn't return to all these houses soon, really does return, then something will break away that makes this society rich and diverse. Especially the theaters beyond the big institutions are laboratories in which one tries and experiments, in which paths are prepared and artists find space. There are places where there are many and many different things to discover, which inspire, make you thoughtful, inspire you to deal with your own life, make you laugh, and make you happy.
Speaking of luck: it is fortunate that there is such a cultural landscape in this country that theater culture of this breadth is accessible to all of us.
That cannot be taken for granted, and it is thanks to those people who create these theaters and who do everything they can for them.
Not leaving diversity to its own devices
Again and again there is political sawing of cultural offerings, budgets are cut, people pretend to be dealing with something optional, art and culture are existential.
For the identity of each individual and for that of the community.
It is therefore important not to leave this diversity to itself, but to work for it. By doing what you did before the pandemic: buy tickets and go. The hygiene concepts are also flawless in the small theaters, many are now doing 2 G, and anyone who can go to the pub or restaurant can go to the theater even more. Since the evidence is also properly checked. Convenience shouldn't be an argument.
Now the point is not just to say how important culture is to you, but also to show it.
Otherwise they will no longer exist at some point.
It would be bitter if that happened because we are too used to staying at home.
The existence of small theaters must not fail because we have all sat on the sofa for so long that now, pardon me, we can't get our butts up.