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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: ‘Theatre society needed to take lead during Covid’

IT’S daggers drawn in the West End as a leading producer Michael Rose takes aim at the august Society of London Theatre, which he says was weak during the pandemic.

“They relied on the Government to make the rules or regulations. That was a wrong move on our behalf. We lost probably around a third of our core theatre-going audiences,” he tells The Londoner, arguing that the society failed to provide clarity on the safety of going to the theatre.

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