Productions that are impacted and which would have made up the summer programme are Living Coloured, Lottering in Lockdown and From Koe’siestes to Kneidlach - With Kids!
Yusuf Daniels’s Living Coloured, adapted by Daniel Mphilo Richards and directed by Loukmaan Adams, as well as Marc Lottering’s Lottering in Lockdown will close on Saturday 19 December 2020. Chantal Stanfield’s From Koe’siestes to Kneidlach - With Kids!, which was due to start on 22 December, has been cancelled and is planned to return sometime in 2021.
“I would like nothing more than to stand on The Baxter stage and entertain my fans,” says Lottering. “But right now, it’s more important to all of us to do the right thing and keep each other alive.”This was not an easy decision for us to make,” says Baxter CEO and artistic director, Lara Foot. “As it is, we were closed for seven months of 2020, with a massive loss of income to the theatre and to artists. However, we must do what we can to help mitigate the risk of spreading the virus. When looking at the current pattern of increased infections in this established resurgence, we have no choice and keeping our spaces and public safety is imperative. We hope to welcome audiences back into our spaces where they will be able to enjoy these productions at a later stage and when it is safer to do so.
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