Mike
Where were you when John Lennon was shot? Filling up my milk float, ready for the day’s deliveries. Where were you on 23rd March 2020? I was listening to Prime Minister Boris Johnson telling us WAR was declared on Covid 19. That will be a question asked, for generations to come.
On 16 March 2020, one week before official government guidance, and just as Covid 19 was turning into a global epidemic, the Performance Ensemble went into lockdown. Our weekly company workshops came to an abrupt halt, and we disappeared behind our individual front doors. The easy ways of communicating, face to face, were no more. But we still needed to connect. Nine of the company started to keep diaries of their experiences, as a way of overcoming the isolation. Here they are: 31 days of lockdown, recorded during the months of March and April, beginning on 16 March and ending on 1 May, just as restrictions started to be eased. Edited by Barney Bardsley