Maybe the reason we have problems is that some people are still skittish about being in a crowd with other people, but it could also be that maybe 30 to 40% of theater audiences were told they weren’t welcome. And when they got back to it, their West End was thriving, and continues to thrive today. When they reopened their theaters, they reopened them for everybody. You know, we got bombed last night, but we’re getting up today. There was an attitude there, it’s that “keep calm and carry on” thing. Unlike England - I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time last year in London, and they got back a lot sooner than we did. We opened up with a show called Can’t Pay Don’t Pay in April last year.”īut the most challenging thing has been dealing with the actors themselves, because there is this skittishness and fear, and it’s still in people. So I waited until everyone could be allowed in the theater. But at the door, you don’t say you can’t come in, because you haven’t done this or that. People figure out their relationship with the gods, with society, with each other. Not in the tradition of what it has always been historically, which is a forum where stories are told and disparate elements come together and figure it out.” If you start specifying reasons why people can’t be in a theater, I don’t think it’s a theater anymore.

I understood the health concerns, but I also understand that theater is a forum and it has to be open to everybody.

Tim robbins