Marcia Wright
Strange to contemplate the different approaches that different countries are taking towards the crisis. I see images of people in Sweden still using cafes, and I hear a governor in Texas declaring that it would be worth letting older people die in order to save businesses going under. He says he wouldn’t mind sacrificing himself. I feel a bit unhinged mentally by all this. Time for a bit of weeding I think. Focussing on small achievable goals helps to retain my mental well being.
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