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When theatres and auditoriums shut shop in April this year for the second time since 2020 due to the pandemic, it was a huge blow to an already suffering theatre community. They had just re-opened a couple of months ago after the first wave. Starved of live performances, theatre-lovers had slowly started trooping in, but the second wave struck.