The Impact of the Pandemic on the Theatre Sector

Tarik: Post-COVID is absolutely one of them. I think what's difficult for theatre is that we're particularly fragile ecosystem. It's almost like climate change deteriorate because the good ecosystem needs a thriving commercial economy, which to some extent we have. But we don't have a very strong subsidized sector that can withstand these shocks. So it's not a surprise that many people come again looking at those challenges and feeling quite helpless in the face of the war struggled to know how to deal with it. Amanda: The result of a perfect storm, the sustained underinvestment in the sector and historic lack of diversity in the sector means that new appointments are more frequently ethnically diverse or