There I was in early September, on a date that I thought would never arrive back in the bleak days of April. On my hands and knees armed with a tape measure and some dance tape, marking out little squares two metres apart on my Drama studio floor. Three years at drama school and it has come to this.
Why the squares? It had been shared among our local drama teachers’ group that this is what one school was doing, and so it seemed to be a good way of being clear about 2 metres. Mostly though, it's because I felt I should be doing something, anything, to see that I'm making preparations to be ‘Covid safe.’ In the weeks leading up to the term, I have seen countless drama teachers searching, mostly in vain, for some guidance. Little has been forthcoming.
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