Who is being unreasonable? Theatre

[MidsummersNightie]

Person A thinks come November most theatres will be open as cases will have eased to the point where we can all just get on with our lives, especially now the vaccine roll out will be well and truly completed by then.

Person B thinks that there's a great possibility that this won't be the case for some time to come and November won't necessarily see theatres open.

Who is most likely, in your opinion, to be right?

Person A YANBU
Person B YABU

No-one knows. We all just have to wait and see.

I think it’ll be somewhere between the two. Plus - the theatres were actively encouraged to open over Christmas (“operation Christmas cheer” and all that), spent a lot of time and money getting up and running - only to be shut down, with two days’ notice, before press night (in some cases, before a single performance). So they’ll be pretty bloody cautious before getting up and running again, I bet....

It depends on how the vaccines work with New variants and how long they last before a booster is needed. Not to mention relying on the theatres to financially make it until then and people happy to go inside in large numbers. Children won’t be vaccinated by then.

A

No one has any bloody clue - come back in December and we can tell you. It's just an opinion. I can say, "Thursday in 2 weeks time it's going to rain"...doesn't mean I'm right.

No one is unreasonable, just different opinions.

Personally I think most will have opened at some point but whether they’ll still be open at full capacity in November remains to be seen.

I think it’ll be like last year - and flu most years - germs follow the seasons and also the school year...

So after schools close in July and summer weather slows transmission (plus vacicnes become widespread), August will be great and we’ll all be excited about the pandemic being over, everything is open in Aug and Sept. Then cases shooting up in Oct and some restrictions coming in, too late, in Nov, and getting tighter as winter settles in. It won’t be as bad as it was in winter 2020 though. Not least because a lot of the most vulnerable people are dead now 😥

I know nobody knows. That's why I'm asking what people think. Some people I know are convinced it will be ok by then. Others are almost sure it won't. I was trying to find out which there are more of, the As or the Bs.

I won't count the don't knows.

It's not unreasonable to have different opinions on something like this where nobody has a clue though.

Well I have bought tickets for the theatre in November so I'm hoping

If it's not to be then that is that

I think that places like cinemas will be open in November, but I’m not sure about all theatres because it takes a long time to set up for a live performance, assemble your cast, rehearse etc ... Very few actors haven’t had to get another job by now (which of course they will be longing to leave for acting again but it might take a bit of time to reshuffle). This will affect the West End and town theatres to different extents of course!

I hope so, I really do, I miss the theatre. Whether they will be able to remains to be seen.

I think A is probably more likely to be correct but neither is being unreasonable.

Neither is BU, both are just guessing

Person A's view makes a lot more sense

If its not A, there's not going to be a lot of theatres left!

Theatres are starting to talk now about some shows resuming in June. Some take longer than others to get in and up again, but there's determination to make it happen in the industry, and these are people who are paid to be creative, so if it can be done, it will be.

We have tickets booked for August, October and December. I'm trusting to the vaccine programme and am willing to cooperate with whatever testing/distancing/mask wearing is still needed.

Theatres closed for another year?

I'm going with Person A.

In fact, I plan on buying tickets to a show for later this year/early next year.

It's not unreasonable to have different opinions on something like this where nobody has a clue though

Well no, but the option of two way voting felt useful to get an idea of how many As and Bs there were around. Turned out to just be confusing and didn't work. Ho hum.

A I think

I think some restrictions will be in place again by winter as numbers will rise again. But who knows

I have tickets for Six in May, postponed since Jan. Theatre is not at full capacity, masks on etc. Cannot wait.

They could be open in August and shut again by November.

In truth we don't know.

I miss the theatre so much!!! But I am not booking tickets now for winter as it is still an unknown.

They will be open. I’m sure of that. Or closed forever.

I’m an optimist so I’m going with A

@Shoxfordian

I’m an optimist so I’m going with A

Sorry to go off at a tangent but when an optimist says 'I'm an optimist so I'm going with...' does this mean they genuinely believe it or are trying to be positive?