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Theatre show WWYD?

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LifesTooShortYOLO · 23/11/2021 12:44

So we have a show tomorrow evening at the Theatre that has been rescheduled since it got cancelled during lockdown and Covid last year.
I was due to go with my mum and MIL and both have now said they don't feel happy going as we are all going to be seated next to each other with not much spacing or social distancing, it's going to be crowded and no ventilation.
I understand their worries and I've said they've got to be happy going.
WWYD?
I'm thinking I will still go as it's not going to get much better than this, when exactly will be the time when we feel happy to go to a theatre again?
They are happy to loose their money if they don't feel happy going.

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PenelopeVonDelius · 23/11/2021 19:13

I would go, but I'd understand why some people wouldn't want to.

supersonicginandtonic · 23/11/2021 19:16

It's quite rude of them to wait until now to tell you they don't feel safe going. It doesn't give you much time to see if somebody else would go with you.
I'm on the side of life goes on. I say this as the friend of somebody who recently passed away from COVID aged 38. He had extra health conditions but is happy he spent the last year of his life enjoying it.

Tombero · 23/11/2021 19:34

I would go. I’ve been to several theatre shows, festivals and gigs and they were all fine.

I am currently lying in bed with covid caught from my child, who caught it at school.

I’m glad I haven’t been hiding away as at least I’m here thinking of some fun I had in the last few months when I would have caught it anyway.

Augusta1 · 23/11/2021 19:38

I've been to the theatre and cinema several times in the last couple of months, no masks, no social distancing. It was wonderful. If they don't want to go, that's their choice but I'd treat a couple of friends with their tickets instead.

herecomesthsun · 23/11/2021 21:58

I'm not going to book indoor theatre tickets. However, I'm very inclined to mask up and go to my kids' end of term concerts, as despite being CEV I am triple-jabbed, with time to develop immunity, and it's for my kids. I think that's where I would be willing to take some risk, myself.

TodaysFishIsTroutALaCreme · 23/11/2021 22:13

Me and a friend went to a theatre recently. It's most likely where we caught covid from.

I knew the risks when we went and both me and my friend are CV. We went anyway.

FIL didn't come to a show with us at the weekend. Was he right not to come? I would say yes. It was the right decision for him and that is all that mattered.

Thewiseoneincognito · 23/11/2021 23:29

Absolutely not a chance. Sitting in an unventilated room packed full of strangers not wearing face masks for 2+ hours and we’ve got 40k cases per day. LOL no thanks I’d rather lose the money.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 23/11/2021 23:35

I've been to the theatre recently and even in venues where they are actively asking you to wear your mask (Her Majesty's Theatre) and others that aren't, only a few were bothering to wear them.

We did London and the theatre and nothing.
But went to Liverpool and the following weekend I tested positive.

Could have been a coincidence though as I work in a primary classroom and a child had been off a few days prior to me catching it, and another 10 then came down with covid too.

spiderlight · 23/11/2021 23:39

DH and I both caught Covid at a theatre the week before last - at least, having gone through all the dates with Track and Trace, that's where they thought was the most likely source. It was the first big event we'd been to since the start of the pandemic and the only place we'd beento together in the week before our symptoms started. We're getting over it now but it's made me wary of going to large indoor events.

Kite22 · 23/11/2021 23:40

I wouldn't try to persuade them as each time I have been, there has been very little mask wearing, although the one theatre does make you show your proof of vaccine or negative lft. If they are uncomfortable, then that is where they are in their journey.

I would still go, and am happy to go to the theatre on my own, and do quite often. However, I do hate waste, so I would offer the spare tickets to family or friends rather than have them empty.

greenlynx · 24/11/2021 00:04

I went to the theatre about a month ago. I was ok but the cases were lower, it’s true. I didn’t eat or drink and wore mask all the time. It wasn’t a big performance so the theatre was full at about 50-60% capacity.
By the way only about 10% of people wore masks and there were no checks of vaccination/ LFTs etc.
I would leave them to make their own decisions. It’s very personal and they won’t enjoy it being anxious.

CimCardashian · 24/11/2021 02:56

I work in a theatre so I’m there most days!

Not many people in the audience wear a mask (all theatre workers have to).

In my theatre (central London) they are very hot on ventilation and have spent lots of money on this.

You can’t force the others to go,but I would go (and wear a mask)

Comefromaway · 24/11/2021 10:47

@CimCardashian

I work in a theatre so I’m there most days!

Not many people in the audience wear a mask (all theatre workers have to).

In my theatre (central London) they are very hot on ventilation and have spent lots of money on this.

You can’t force the others to go,but I would go (and wear a mask)

My daughter works in a central London theatre too and would agree that this is what is happening. Her particular venue has lots of young children so very few of them were wearing masks anyway.

supersonicginandtonic · 24/11/2021 18:54

@spiderlight I really wouldn't presume you got it from there. It's just like a cold or flu. You'll have no idea where you caught it so it's a bit silly to presume.

supersonicginandtonic · 24/11/2021 18:56

@Thewiseoneincognito you do realise we have a population of nearly 67 million people. 43,000 is a tiny number in comparison and the deaths minuscule. If you didn't look at it like that, no medical staff would have gone to work over the 20 months.

Comefromaway · 24/11/2021 19:13

Whereas we’ve been to the theatre/cinema etc etc but Ds caught Covid at college (along with 4-5 other of his close friends so definitely from there)

noswaithda1 · 24/11/2021 19:31

I would not want to be going if Mr Johnson was there as happened with a recent production of the Scottish play, where he refused to follow the reasonable request of the theatre.

thewhatsit · 24/11/2021 20:43

I’d go if it’s something you are keen to see. Anyone else you know who’d take their tickets?

Theatres have to go back to crowded seating etc etc because they’re just not financially viable without it and that industry has been absolutely decimated by COVID.

fluffi · 24/11/2021 21:57

I used to happily go to the theatre and opera on my own, often on a friday after work it was always very enjoyable and a lovely way to end the week and have something to look forward to.

However I'm not prepared to go at the moment with current infection rate, lack of mask consistent mask wearing in theatres and having to catch the tube home! Maybe if I had covid in the last couple of months then I would go!

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