‘We’re gone,” tweeted playwright Michael West as his play, The Fall of the Second Republic, closed early at the Abbey. Our artists and performers are in the front line of the Covid-19-induced economic crisis; they have perhaps even more reason than most to be shrouded in a fog of anxiety. Poetry Ireland poet in residence Catherine Ann Cullen (@tarryathome) is tweeting a daily “poetry prompt” to encourage people to write and share poems via Twitter. Author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers is doing daily live readings of his books. Our theatre makers will no doubt find ways to bring what is the most social of the arts into this era of isolation.

Source: The Irish Times March 17, 2020 18:11 UTC