“It’s what we’re here for.” He hoped British tourists would make up for the shortfall of international visitors. The onstage social distancing was also as much for financial as health reasons, he said. “We have to protect the show,” he said, adding it’d be “incredibly damaging financially” if they had to pull it. A play about mistaken lovers turned out to be surprisingly easy to stage in the age of distancing. Now, they each got a corner of the stage to themselves (one lover, Lysander, gets a blowup mattress at one point, much to his lover Hermia’s annoyance).

Source: International New York Times May 27, 2021 13:40 UTC