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5 January 2021 • 5:31pm 2020 was terrible, but the worst may be yet to come: the West End s closed Lyric Theatre Credit: Henry Nicholls/Reuters So the theatre industry is gritting its teeth once again. As we plunge once more into national lockdown, an anonymous theatre producer confided to me: “It feels like we’ve gone back from recovery mode to survival mode”. Certainly the implications of the virus variant(s) and questions about vaccine roll-out are enough to daunt even the most battle-hardened in the industry which has been more or less shut down since London was plunged into tier 3 in mid-December. I asked several leading players about a timeline in terms of reopening, first with social distancing then the holy grail of reverting to the norm of this time last year. “We are as in the dark as everybody now,” confesses Julian Bird, chief executive of SOLT (the Society of London Theatre) and UK Theatre (the key body for regional playhouses).

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