Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Theatre closures are not necessarily a disaster – they offer a chance to remake culture

One of Sonia Friedman's West End productions 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'. Image: Simon Dawson / Bloomberg / Getty Images
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Theatre stands on the brink of ruin, says Sonia Friedman. And if you believe Twitter, so is my career. I’m apparently ‘a disgrace to my profession’. ‘Not fit to do my job’. I wear ‘grubby’ oversized T-shirts, dare to have ‘an anagram for a name‘ (sorry for being foreign) and possess the face of an ‘etiolated ferret’ and, naturally, for all this, I should be fired.

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