Editorial: Summer Term 2 2020-21

The summer holidays are nearly upon us, and will no doubt be very welcome, with many teachers exhausted by this most strange and complicated of academic years. Equally, some of you will be in the building over the holidays, with government funding in place for summer schools to help incoming year 7s ease into secondary school – and arts and ‘enrichment’ activities a priority. It has been a joy to read the recent flurry of reopening announcements from theatre companies across the UK, with tours, West-End and regional producing houses all planning to throw open their doors to audiences again in the coming weeks. Predictions aplenty have been filling the media in recent weeks about a ‘roaring twenties’-style boom for the entertainment industries as the nation awakes from its enforced hibernation, and I for one am ready to grasp that champagne coupe and don some beads and feathers for many joyous nights in each of my beloved local theatres. It has been a difficult if not tragic period for everyone, but the near-future really does look brighter.