Richard Bratby

How real is the performing arts exodus?

Richard Bratby meets the music and theatre pros who've become shelf-stackers and drivers during lockdown, and finds many are enjoying it

A show that definitely won’t reopen until they know it won’t be shut down again: Hiran Abeysekera as Pi in Life of Pi, due to transfer to Wyndham’s from Sheffield Crucible. Credit: ©Johan Persson/ArenaPAL 
issue 20 March 2021
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