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Post by SuperTrooper on Mar 14, 2021 22:44:29 GMT
I was coming home from work, not realising that I wouldn't work again for over a year!
It's been a wierd year, I'm sure I could have done more with my time but hey ho!
Happy Anniversary of a year without what brings us together on this forum!
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Post by CG on the loose on Mar 15, 2021 1:15:52 GMT
I was flying home from Costa Rica... with 3 shows lined up the week I was back. None of which went ahead of course. I've been fortunate enough to continue working throughout but the pandemic has taken its toll in other ways.
It's not an anniversary I feel much like marking but maybe survival and kinship and hope are cause enough for celebration.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 15, 2021 6:40:21 GMT
1 year ago, my partner had just died and I was planning his funeral. I was reading about covid, theatres closing and nothing made sense.
A year has now passed at times it feels like 5 minutes and others 5 years. I'm extremely greatful to friends, mindfulness, selfhelp books and my therapist.
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Mar 15, 2021 9:16:10 GMT
A year ago this week I should have gone to London for my birthday, lots of shows booked. This year I should have gone to London for my birthday, one ticket still booked for Saturday. Next year...  |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Mar 15, 2021 9:37:49 GMT
Must have been tough with only your thoughts for company, hope the chap in your profile pic perked you up in the way only dogs can.
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Post by robertb213 on Mar 15, 2021 10:40:59 GMT
I was working in my office and looking forward to seeing Phantom at Curve that evening, my first cancelled show. I'd been in London two days earlier for City Of Angels, my last show. Never dreamed at that point I'd have a theatre-less year and still be working from home at today.
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Post by firefingers on Mar 15, 2021 11:06:46 GMT
A year ago we did a cut show as we had several people off (one with suspected Coronavirus). It was a bit of a mess due to there not being enough understudies. Sad way to end it.
We thought we'd all be back in the summer. All been loaded out of the theatre now, we didn't even have a Monday show so there are loads of people I never even got to say goodbye to.
I feel very lucky to have had a few little bits of work on streaming stuff, and had my first production meeting for a show that should open when theatres are allowed in May. But it's been a hell of a year.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2021 12:36:15 GMT
I was just going out the door on Saturday morning to have lunch in a pub when I got a message that there was a problem at work. The problem had actually been going on for several days but it was only on the Saturday that anyone bothered to call on my expertise in the matter. "Never mind", I thought to myself as I settled down to clock up a few hours extra pay, "I can go next week".
Eighteen weeks later...
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Post by jaqs on Mar 15, 2021 12:36:20 GMT
I just started a new job 2 weeks ago after almost a full year of not working.
Didn’t do a lot with the year either, figured surviving was enough, and all that self improvement others were doing looked exhausting.
I’m excited to hear of people buying tickets and planning trips again.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 15, 2021 12:53:15 GMT
Must have been tough with only your thoughts for company, hope the chap in your profile pic perked you up in the way only dogs can. Alfie and his floppy ears have helped a lot and then along came Lola and her many growth spurts    |
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Post by alece10 on Mar 15, 2021 16:47:56 GMT
Must have been tough with only your thoughts for company, hope the chap in your profile pic perked you up in the way only dogs can. Alfie and his floppy ears have helped a lot and then along came Lola and her many growth spurts |
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Post by alece10 on Mar 15, 2021 16:48:25 GMT
I've just checked my diary and it's just says cancelled, cancelled, cancelled.
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Post by maggiem on Mar 16, 2021 11:36:27 GMT
A year ago today, I was at work, giving updated information about potential closing times to our students. Eventually we closed on 18/03 and we were all working from home on Thursday 19/03.
Complete bummer knowing all my theatre visits for August would be cancelled.
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Post by danb on Mar 16, 2021 12:20:04 GMT
I think I was still shellshocked that
‘Be More Chill’ was the last thing I’d be seeing for so long...
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Post by vickyg on Mar 16, 2021 14:13:29 GMT
A year ago today I arrived at work having had a week off, people were gathering up their things, being told they had been put into bubbles and wouldn’t work face to face with colleagues outside their bubble ‘for the time being’. A year later I still haven’t seen the majority of people who are usually in my office.
A major incident structure had been introduced to the hospital and gold, silver and bronze command meetings were taking place at least daily and sometimes more often as things were changing so quickly. Zoom was taking a battering and was very unreliable so ironically most of these meetings had to be held in person.
I was supposed to be visiting my best friend and god children the following weekend but instead I went for my state sanctioned walk thinking ‘at least it’s nice weather and the blossom’s out’. Now the blossom’s back and that feels like a very strong marker of the time that’s passed.
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Post by SuperTrooper on Mar 16, 2021 16:41:28 GMT
Thanks for sharing everyone!
Other posters have put things much better than I could, I know I don't post often, but I'm grateful for this site over the past year, it's made me laugh and kept me from going stir crazy.
Can't wait for a chance for a forum meet up when this is all over!
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Post by david on Mar 16, 2021 16:46:23 GMT
Having a look at the diary, I was having a theatre weekend in London at the Bridge and the NT. Being sat in the Olivier theatre watching The Visit, the atmosphere (a sense of deep uneasiness amongst those of us who attended that night) inside the auditorium was completely different to anything I have experienced before in a theatre. The large areas of seats empty that night was something I have never seen before at the NT. The following day before travelling back up North, I was doing a Hidden London tour of the Clapham South Deep Level Shelter. With no sense of what was on the horizon, maybe that was the safest place to be at that time.
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Post by Phantom of London on Mar 17, 2021 1:10:01 GMT
Total respect for Someone in a tree, what a dreadful year for you and I love both your dogs.
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Post by Phantom of London on Mar 17, 2021 1:29:58 GMT
We didn’t know how bad this pandemic was going to be, people were moribund by scenes coming out of Northern Italy, with morgues full up and they couldn’t bury their dead, it sent shockwaves around the world.
Meanwhile Saturday evening a year ago I saw the last performance of Endgame at the Old Vic, which there were many empty seats, which is strange because it would have otherwise been a sold out, due to the strong casting. The Old Vic was the first theatre to formally suspend performances. However I didn’t want Endgame to be my epitaph and looked forward to seeing more shows, but who knows with this virus and how deadly it was going to be.
Meanwhile a new word entered the lexicon and that is ‘shielding’ and reports in the media that if you had certain conditions you are to stay home for 3 months and shield, which was me, I had a letter form Matt Hancock to say “I shouldn’t put the rubbish, but I can open a window if I want.” It ended having 4 months off before going back to work. Then just before Christmas, the day after the American election I was told to shield again, which I have done since November, this shielding period I have found brutal and still not sure when I be back at work.
Dead on a year before the first lockdown, so 2 years ago, I had emergency lifesaving surgery. So very grateful to the NHS and even more grateful my condition didn’t happen a year later, I don’t think my body would have coped with a blocked intestine, diabetes and Covid. But never less I am eternally gratefully to the NHS.
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