The Netherlands is growing tired of lockdown restrictions

On Wednesday at De Kleine Komedie, the oldest theatre in Amsterdam, the sound of comics on stage will be interspersed with the snips of scissors. Unable to open as a theatre due to the coronavirus restrictions, the comic actor Diederik Ebbinge
is defiantly converting the venue into a hairdressers for the day with customers able to watch live acts while they get their hair cut. Fellow comedian Sanne Wallis De Vries is asking theatres up and down the country to sign up and join their haircut theatre scheme on the same day.

In the latest phase of the Dutch lockdown, announced at a press conference on Friday night, from today gyms, shops and contact professions such as hairdressers are allowed to reopen until 5pm each day. The limited lifting of restrictions though now means you can go to a prostitute, but not to a concert hall. You can sweat at a gym, but not drown your sorrows at a bar stool with a jenever.