Sitting here with a cuppa and a bit of shortbread in hand, I find myself caught between preparing the final bits and bobs for the opening of our live school performance and watching the latest events unfold in the United Kingdom – my homeland. I am scared for family and friends, their health, their jobs and what looks likely to be another set of uninformed lockdowns.
I ask, and believe you me we discuss this in the staff room, how have the UK and the US got this so monumentally wrong? When I compare the handling of the situation to where I am living, Taiwan, I just cannot see why it had to go so badly. We have not had lockdowns, we do not have tiers, we do not have issues with mask-wearing and, unlike the UK and the US, we do not have school closures! But, owing to the crisis in the UK and the US, something has impacted us here, something rather magical: the opening up of drama and theatre professional development opportunities.
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