As a theatre and a small charitable business, Coronavirus affects us in many ways, but the government’s call for the public to avoid non-essential social contact and requirement for theatres to respond has resulted in the closure of the Puppet Theatre to the public as of March 17th until further notice. BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON! Despite the fact we have some staff working from home, and some on furlough, our team is being creative and trying to bring our work to families at home in these unprecedented times. The whole company is determined to emerge once more as one of England’s 3 Professional Puppet Theatres at the other end of this crisis. We are working with our self-employed creative partners (many of whose avenues for income have abruptly dried up) to bring our lovely theatre and creative learning activities to you via digital channels. Norwich Puppet Theatre’s YouTube Channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC90yGyJLmL04mep1vCnKm7w There are several resources at https://puppettheatre.co.uk/about-us/online-puppet-theatre including templates to print and cut out at home, and videos from our lovely partners! We are exploring this at a new level for us, so we’d welcome your feedback! Email us at [email protected] or Twitter @norwich_puppet or you can find us on Facebook. We hope you and your families will enjoy our short films and want to stay in touch with us and follow the growing range of materials on the channel. Of course, this crisis has stopped us in our tracks with none of the regular live activities in our lovely theatre, on tour, with schools and at festivals and outdoor events. This immediately translates to a massive hit to our bottom line. We haven’t tried to introduce a subscription or pay per view model for what we are doing. There are lots of ways in which you can respond to our request to make a donation and many of our friends and customers are so doing already. We are so grateful to them! If you or your company would like to donate, here is a link https://www.totalgiving.co.uk/donate/norwich-puppet-theatre-trust-limited THANK YOU!
