Puppet Centre @PuppetCentre
The Puppet Centre is a development agency supporting all forms of puppetry and object animation. puppetcentre.org.uk Joined December 2011-
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ANNOUNCEMENT!!! We're over the moon to announce @HatchlingUK, a spectacular & enormous dragon will hatch, roam and FLY from the clifftops of Plymouth this summer. We will reclaim the streets with ground breaking new public art. #TheHatchling thehatchling.co.uk
Puppet Centre Trust 2019 - The Year in Puppetry This film showcases the wide variety of UK puppetry productions performed, viewed and created in 2019. A very special thanks to all the companies and artists who contributed to the making of this film. youtu.be/frBbc4FTqKE
Exciting opportunity for any theatre artists who are interested in making site specific work.
Exciting opportunity for any theatre artists who are interested in making site specific work.
Just amazing to have been able to perform live theatre this weekend with @HalfaString, and to bee part of @marlowetheatre’s wonderful #LoveYourTheatre festival #ISavedABee #SaveTheArts @LoulouAshton @PeteJMorton
These are just the statistics for theatre - the wider creative industries, like live music, face similar issues, closures and redundancies. And these industries all affect our food & drink, travel, accommodation and tourism industries too.
Allowing theatre to die isn’t just heartless, it’s bad economics.
Without government support, many theatres won’t be able to re-open, or will be utterly eviscerated. HMRC won’t receive the £200+ million VAT we normally pay to them each year.
Without government support, estimates suggest that 200,000 people who are currently without work, or will imminently lose their current job, will have to start claiming benefits.
Whatever you think of the arts, the economics of the situation are very simple.
Online theatre can’t save us. Playing to small audiences can’t save us. Outdoor theatre can’t save us. We need external help & we need it fast. Both for individuals excluded from government income support, and for the theatres that employ us, either full-time or otherwise.
With reserves drying up & no support from Gov, theatres can’t afford to keep furloughing full-time staff. They’re going into administration, or starting 30%-50% staff cuts. We’re at the start of a tidal wave of redundancies that’ll sweep across the country over the next 3 weeks.
Most people I know have received NO INCOME & NO SUPPORT SINCE MARCH. And they have no prospects of any work for the remainder of 2020. Freelancers are in a desperate situation. @ExcludedUK estimate 3 million UK freelancers are in similar position.
On a typical show: 20% full-time employees, 80% freelance/short-term/casual. Many mix freelance & short-term PAYE- not thru choice but because how HMRC classify work. Consequently MAJORITY of us excluded from SEISS freelance support scheme, and don’t qualify for furlough
There are 3 theatre workforces:- permanent full-time venue staff; freelance/short-term staff employed for a specific show- actors, musicians, crew & creatives; & casual day-to-day staff such as follow-spot operators, ushers & dressers. This is simplified, it’s more complex IRL
We can’t safely open up theatres now. We can’t economically open theatres now. And audiences wouldn’t come even if we did.
Survey of 40,000 theatregoers says only 15-20% would attend if theatres open now. We need to be past social distancing, or have other solutions before we can safely & economically open. Many believe that’s unlikely before early 2021. 70% of theatres will be bankrupt by then.
As other industries begin to reopen, the future of theatre is bleak. 2 metre social distancing means most theatres can operate at max 9-15% audience capacity. 1m distancing means max 33%. Theatres need 50-60% capacity just to cover their costs.
Over 100,000 people visit London to watch a West End show every single week - and for every £1 spent at the theatre they spend another £3 on food, drink, accommodation and travel. That's over £500 million per year into those industries.
In 2018, more than 34million tickets were sold, over double attendance of Premier League football, and generating £211 million in VAT alone for HMRC. Over 50% of theatres are charities or trusts, operating not for profit.
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First time I went to the theatre was on a school trip to see King Lear, somehow 5 of the naughtiest lads in the class got to go. We fully intended to spend the night fucking around but by the end of the play we were all in tears. Totally blew us away.#SaveTheArts
These are just the statistics for theatre - the wider creative industries, like live music, face similar issues, closures and redundancies. And these industries all affect our food & drink, travel, accommodation and tourism industries too.
Allowing theatre to die isn’t just heartless, it’s bad economics.
Without government support, many theatres won’t be able to re-open, or will be utterly eviscerated. HMRC won’t receive the £200+ million VAT we normally pay to them each year.
Without government support, estimates suggest that 200,000 people who are currently without work, or will imminently lose their current job, will have to start claiming benefits.
Whatever you think of the arts, the economics of the situation are very simple.
Online theatre can’t save us. Playing to small audiences can’t save us. Outdoor theatre can’t save us. We need external help & we need it fast. Both for individuals excluded from government income support, and for the theatres that employ us, either full-time or otherwise.
With reserves drying up & no support from Gov, theatres can’t afford to keep furloughing full-time staff. They’re going into administration, or starting 30%-50% staff cuts. We’re at the start of a tidal wave of redundancies that’ll sweep across the country over the next 3 weeks.
Most people I know have received NO INCOME & NO SUPPORT SINCE MARCH. And they have no prospects of any work for the remainder of 2020. Freelancers are in a desperate situation. @ExcludedUK estimate 3 million UK freelancers are in similar position.
On a typical show: 20% full-time employees, 80% freelance/short-term/casual. Many mix freelance & short-term PAYE- not thru choice but because how HMRC classify work. Consequently MAJORITY of us excluded from SEISS freelance support scheme, and don’t qualify for furlough
There are 3 theatre workforces:- permanent full-time venue staff; freelance/short-term staff employed for a specific show- actors, musicians, crew & creatives; & casual day-to-day staff such as follow-spot operators, ushers & dressers. This is simplified, it’s more complex IRL
We can’t safely open up theatres now. We can’t economically open theatres now. And audiences wouldn’t come even if we did.
Survey of 40,000 theatregoers says only 15-20% would attend if theatres open now. We need to be past social distancing, or have other solutions before we can safely & economically open. Many believe that’s unlikely before early 2021. 70% of theatres will be bankrupt by then.
As other industries begin to reopen, the future of theatre is bleak. 2 metre social distancing means most theatres can operate at max 9-15% audience capacity. 1m distancing means max 33%. Theatres need 50-60% capacity just to cover their costs.
Over 100,000 people visit London to watch a West End show every single week - and for every £1 spent at the theatre they spend another £3 on food, drink, accommodation and travel. That's over £500 million per year into those industries.
In 2018, more than 34million tickets were sold, over double attendance of Premier League football, and generating £211 million in VAT alone for HMRC. Over 50% of theatres are charities or trusts, operating not for profit.
In the UK, theatre directly employs over 300,000 people. There’s another 100,000+ indirectly employed by companies like set builders & hire companies.
Theatre’s been around for centuries, it’s resilient to plagues & wars. But the people who work in theatre aren’t. They are desperately suffering right now, and things are about to get a lot worse. Majority of us have relatively low pay and little government support.
Its been a pivotal week as we waited to hear whether the government would help sustain our industry until we can re-open. Instead they released a vague & meaningless “roadmap”. As to financial support, the silence from the government has been deafening.
The Theatre Industry is dying, and it’s dying now. Not everyone likes theatre, but if you watch Film/TV this is going to affect you, because much of what & who you watch had their origins in theatre, whether it’s Fleabag or the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games [THREAD]
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