As part of our week-long series about how the arts are dealing with Covid-19, we take a look at the impact of the health crisis on theatre, dance and opera. Playwright and director Marion Siefert joins us in the studio to talk about how the "stop-start" measures of 2020 affected her productions. She also explains how her latest play "Jeanne Dark" has successfully made the shift into the virtual space, with performances streamed live on Instagram.
We then discuss the upcoming restrictions on crowd sizes and social distancing at festivals, and how they will affect young artists and smaller institutions.
And we check in with American puppeteer Basil Twist, who managed to stage a full-scale production of "Titon et L’Aurore" at the Opéra Comique in Paris, despite the absence of a live audience.
