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Post by CG on the loose on Aug 10, 2020 12:26:38 GMT
Stratford East, Hull New Theatre, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Blackpool Grand, Stafford Gatehouse, Peterborough New Theatre, Basingstoke Anvil, Hornchurch Queen's Theatre all postponed to 2021, while St Helen's Theatre Royal changes title (Cinderella to Beauty & the Beast) and goes ahead with socially distanced, COVID secure production.
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Post by duncan on Aug 10, 2020 13:33:21 GMT
As we're currently seeing in Australia and indeed in Aberdeen, unless there is a vaccine all NZ has done is push the problem down the road. South Korea are certainly the country the rest of the world should have followed. New Zealand has a population under a 10th of the UK and locked down their borders very quickly so I cannot compare them to us. No other major European Country has got their Arts and Live Entertainments up and running yet. Sadly in the scheme of things stuff like the theatre is down the list of things getting back to normal. We have been without attended live performances for nearly 5 months now and it honestly looks like being a year plus now unless a vaccine is found. My comparison with NZ was quite relevant.
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Post by firefingers on Aug 10, 2020 15:20:58 GMT
As we're currently seeing in Australia and indeed in Aberdeen, unless there is a vaccine all NZ has done is push the problem down the road. My comparison with NZ was quite relevant. Thousands of lives saved, and with the research strongly pointing at a vaccine by the end of the year, pushing it down the road was all that was required.
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Post by duncan on Aug 11, 2020 11:41:46 GMT
If you believe in the vaccine being developed that quick. I don't.
In the meantime the NZ economy goes down the toilet as it loses all tourism and indeed Auckland goes back into lockdown. Countries will not be able to function going forward following the NZ model.
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Post by marcellus on Aug 11, 2020 16:00:46 GMT
If you believe in the vaccine being developed that quick. I don't. In the meantime the NZ economy goes down the toilet as it loses all tourism and indeed Auckland goes back into lockdown. Countries will not be able to function going forward following the NZ model. Re "unless there is a vaccine all NZ has done is push the problem down the road": this is palpably untrue. Medical science isn't a static thing, you know, and it's not terribly helpful or good faith to present it as such.
We may or may not have a vaccine soon, but since March scientists and medics have found at least two drugs appear to significantly reduce severity and mortality of COVID: Dexamethasone and Interferon B. A third, Remdesavir, may also be effective. Dexamethasone and Interferon B are relatively cheap to produce, but have the potential to reduce not only the death toll but also reduce the time patients spend in hospital and the risk of "long COVID" complications.
These are all things New Zealanders will benefit from, because their government chose to be cautious about an unknown disease of unknown severity. Even if New Zealand chose to relax restrictions now, the death toll and long term health consequences, as well as risks to their health service, would still end up being less than it would have been if their government had allowed it to run rampant in March 2020.
So no, New Zealand hasn't "pushed the problem down the road". It's exercised a caution which now, even in the current absence of a vaccine, is paying dividends. It's a shame the UK government didn't exercise a similar caution: some of our dead would have been saved by dexamethasone or interferon B, if the government had been quicker to "push the problem down the road."
www.uhs.nhs.uk/ClinicalResearchinSouthampton/Research/News-and-updates/Articles/Inhaled-drug-prevents-COVID-19-patients-getting-worse-in-Southampton-trial.aspx
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 0:22:59 GMT
New Zealand have kept their cases really down and geographically is in a different situation to European Countries their PM has gone with very strong tactics but we don't know the cost it has had on their various sectors. Have they done furlough schemes or likewise. The far bigger South Korea has tried to keep things open and case numbers down.
NZ I was told by a Kiwi chap I worked with was a very Conservative country in thought. Their ruling party is described as Centre Left so might be like Blair era New Labour I would think.
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Post by stevejohnson678 on Aug 12, 2020 6:25:09 GMT
New Zealand's response to the Covid-19 pandemic sounds like a lousy subject for a panto.
I think I'll stick with the old favourites like Cinderella and Peter Pan.
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 12, 2020 9:39:28 GMT
Another huge panto rescheduled, Bradford Alhambra's Sleeping Beauty:
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 12, 2020 16:17:34 GMT
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Post by CG on the loose on Aug 12, 2020 16:26:22 GMT
Royal & Derngate Northampton, Mercury Colchester, Oldham Coliseum also postponed to 2021 and Regis Centre Bognor cancelled.
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 17, 2020 11:14:52 GMT
Just received an email from Cardiff New Theatre, Aladdin rescheduled to 2021.
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 21, 2020 17:07:48 GMT
Wycombe Swan rescheduled to 2021:
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 27, 2020 20:29:19 GMT
Newcastle Theatre Royal Humpty Dumpty rescheduled to 2021:
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Post by properjob on Aug 28, 2020 17:35:56 GMT
I've had an email from a producing theatre that does its own panto in house asking me to rate which aspects of a panto are most important to me so I assume they are trying to work out which bits they should concentrate on.
They do say they won't announce until October but it is a glimmer of hope there might be something.
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Post by talkingheads on Sept 8, 2020 11:11:42 GMT
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Post by nick on Sept 9, 2020 8:36:01 GMT
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Post by talkingheads on Sept 15, 2020 6:51:55 GMT
Forum Theatre Billinghan's Aladdin is going ahead:
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 16, 2020 8:45:23 GMT
The York Theatre Royal panto, the first under the new arrangement with Evolution, has been postponed until 2021. The show will not only go on though, it will go on the road, with plans to stage 'a' panto in all 21 council wards in the city. A vote will be taken beforehand, with the audience deciding from a choice of three.
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Post by talkingheads on Sept 17, 2020 9:05:54 GMT
The National is doing a panto! A reworking of Cariad Lloyd and Jude Christian's Dick Whittington staged at the Lyric Hammersmith a few years ago. I am absolutely booking for this one! I loved that panto so much I saw it twice!
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Post by talkingheads on Sept 23, 2020 15:39:31 GMT
Berwick Kaler's panto in York has been delayed to 2021:
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 1, 2020 14:37:55 GMT
The great Ben Roddy will be performing in a panto at The Marlowe Canterbury this year after all, in a specially written production called Nurse Nellie Saves The Day:
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 1, 2020 17:39:41 GMT
Maybe some of the other will too, but that's at least two of Evolution's venues that have announced the show will go on, in a different format, this Christmas. Good for them!
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 9, 2020 7:15:17 GMT
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Post by properjob on Oct 9, 2020 8:30:22 GMT
I've had an email from a producing theatre that does its own panto in house asking me to rate which aspects of a panto are most important to me so I assume they are trying to work out which bits they should concentrate on. They do say they won't announce until October but it is a glimmer of hope there might be something. It was Nottingham Playhouse and they have indeed announced they are indeed doing something. It is going to be 75mins straight through and available either socially distanced live or on-demand. nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/whats-on/playhouse-panto/Interestingly it is written by the current Artistic Director. They are normally written by the former Artistic Director as will next years (postponed from this) who is in his eighties so I wonder if they are doing a little bit of sucession planning to avoid the mess that happened in York?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 9, 2020 8:45:15 GMT
Blimey that came out of left field! On sale at 10am today!
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Post by properjob on Oct 9, 2020 8:45:36 GMT
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 23, 2020 15:25:27 GMT
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 26, 2020 10:29:29 GMT
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Post by Figaro on Oct 26, 2020 12:07:29 GMT
75 minutes and no interval!
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 26, 2020 13:32:02 GMT
75 minutes and no interval! Better than nothing though?
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