Maverick Citizen: Phoenix rising: Post-Covid theatre will return — angrier

Covid-19 has exposed the antithesis of what good theatre delivers to us. In Act 1, it dimmed the lights, brought down the curtains and put the bolts on the theatre doors. Who will script Act 2 for theatres after the Covid-19 pandemic? Or, what will Act 2 look like when the pandemic will have changed our world in ways that we had hardly anticipated?

Good theatres across the globe thrive because they satisfy all these qualities, but good theatres also thrive when they are subsidised by their governments. The Fugard Theatre received no subsidy. It was single-handedly funded by philanthropist Eric Abrahams who invested millions of rands into the theatre for just over a decade.

From its foundation as an independent, non-racial theatre, the Market Theatre with its repertoire of anti-apartheid productions, built a phenomenal reputation as South Africa’s home of protest theatre. It was here where the roots for was anchored.

What followed was a calculated campaign to discredit the CEO and CFO with a combined total of 23 fabricated charges, a forensic report costing millions and disciplinary hearings which cost hundreds of thousands of rands. Not a single charge against them could be substantiated and the entire forensic report commissioned by the DSAC was rejected by commissioner Larry Shear.

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