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“These 15 days are the ones with the highest collection. We hope that Culture and other administrations will help us,” said Isabel Vidal, president of Adetca.
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“We are worried. It is a very strong blow,” says Marina Marcos, spokesperson for the proximity rooms.
The evidence that culture is safe has not prevented the Government from deciding to reduce capacity to 70% again. The new restrictions to stop the sixth wave of covid-19 will come into force this Friday. The sector has been surprised that the first choice was not to implement the covid passport in theaters and auditoriums. At the end of the day, they are places where people always go with the mask on all the time, there is hydro-alcoholic gel, regulated entrances and exits and assigned places. Isabel Vidal, president of Adetca (Association of Theater Companies of Catalonia), demands the collaboration of the administrations to stop this new coup. “These 15 days are the ones with the highest collection. We hope that Culture and other administrations will help us. We did not expect this reduction in capacity because security protocols are being followed in the theaters. But we understand that the situation is very complicated and we will have to go through it among all. “, has indicated.
Marina Marcos, spokesperson for the proximity rooms, has also expressed her concern: “It is a very strong blow. We hope that the situation changes as quickly as possible and that the public does not stop going to the theater, as it has been up to now, because it is not a risk space “. These small theaters have few tickets available and making a profit is more difficult for them. The numbers don’t come out. “Emotionally, this is very hard and it catches us tired. This is exhausting,” confesses Marcos. After a hard fight, theaters had only been open for a little over two and a half months at one hundred percent capacity. It was last October 15 when the capacity returned to normal.
How to decide who is coming and who is not? This is the dilemma faced by all theaters and auditoriums. At the Liceu, Palau and Auditori, they will have to contact buyers and offer alternatives, if there are any. The capacity reduction, which takes effect at the end of the week, will fully affect the Christmas show of ‘The Nutcracker’ with music by Chaicovski performed by the Ballet del Théâtre du Capitol de Toulouse, scheduled from 28 this month to January 4 . The Auditori did not have much programming on these dates and their New Year’s concert with the Municipal Band will be withdrawn from the sale before reaching 70%. In the Palau, the most complicated thing will be to cut seats in the traditional Concert de Sant Esteve.
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Theaters have to do all the work of repositioning the public or returning the amount of the ticket. Some have already had it forced marches recently when cases of covid or close contacts were detected in the teams of artistic companies. This weekend the maximum impact in this regard has been reached. The Lliure had to suspend the last performances of ‘Casa’, the TNC those of ‘El nedador del mar secret’ and La Beckett, ‘Eufòria’ and ‘El racer de karts‘. To this must be added the functions suspended in the Maldà of ‘The wise women’ and in the Poliorama of ‘I love you if I drank’. The works at the Beckett, the Maldà and the Poliorama will return from the 28th, once the quarantine is over.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com