This is the art form that makes us feel most acutely human. We are going to need it more than ever, says Michael Billington, the Guardian’s former chief theatre critic
How will society cope with the total shutdown of theatres for the foreseeable future? It will, one trusts, survive, but the effect of closures on the theatrical ecology will be potentially devastating. Productions will be jettisoned, people put out of work, institutions imperilled. Even the National Theatre, which is reasonably well-endowed, ultimately depends on the box-office: as its director, Rufus Norris, pointed out to me recently, only 15% of its income derives from subsidy.
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