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Post by fiyerorocher on Aug 12, 2021 23:30:22 GMT
Any idea if shows will still have to cancel if a member of the cast has to self isolate due to being tested postive when the new rules come in on Monday 16th? Or is this going to change and one of the reasons ALW is reopening Cinderella on Monday? AS I UNDERSTAND IT (big caveat, because there is a very decent chance I understand it wrong), you won't have to self-isolate if you're identified as a close contact of someone who tests positive if you're double-vaccinated. So there won't be cases like Cinderella where one cast member tested positive and everyone else then had to isolate despite testing negative. However if a cast is very young and thus not yet double-vaccinated, or if cast members have refused the vaccine, they would still have to isolate. If a cast member tests positive then they themselves obviously still have to quarantine. So we could still see a lot of understudies and swings on, with the potential for cut shows, but the chances of having an entire cast taken down by the self-isolation rules are greatly reduced. If any of this is wrong, someone please do correct me! All the rules change so fast at the moment that i can't keep up. |
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Post by greeny11 on Aug 13, 2021 9:05:08 GMT
That is my understanding of the rules too. I would be surprised if there are many actors left unvaccinated - lots of younger actors appeared to be vaccinated around May/June, except they appeared to have their 2nd jab brought forward to about 4 weeks after their first. I assumed this was part of some vaccination scheme for the theatre industry as so many of them appeared to be getting them around the same time.
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Post by Jon on Aug 13, 2021 15:25:32 GMT
Surely any actor or crew who isn't vaccinated unless medically exempt surely wouldn't get hired or potentially dismissed if they found since they would be a risk to the production.
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Post by fiyerorocher on Aug 13, 2021 21:48:01 GMT
Surely any actor or crew who isn't vaccinated unless medically exempt surely wouldn't get hired or potentially dismissed if they found since they would be a risk to the production. I've been thinking about this. I know there are definitely some actors in west end shows who are just refusing to get the vaccine and I do wonder what will happen to them. Obviously even if they get shot one tomorrow, they wouldn't be fully vaxxed for a while. But replacing them if they were dismissed would also take a while (and potentially be against their contracts? unsure) if they had to rehearse someone knew. It will be interesting to see if anything happens. |
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