Let's safely reopen theaters: appeal to the new government for a public plan

One year after the government’s first measure mandating the closure of theaters as a measure to counter Covid-19, U.N.I.T.A. (Unione Nazionale Interpreti Teatro e Audiovisivo) appeals to the new government and the entire citizenry to immediately return to the subject of theater and live performance, to name it again, and to plan and make public a plan that will lead as soon as possible to the safe reopening of these venues.

He also calls on all those who run Italian theaters, from the smallest to the big national theaters, to light them up and keep them open on the evening of Feb. 22, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

It then asks all artists, all workers and the public in the cities to organize, where possible, throughout Italy, respecting security measures, a garrison of the theaters on the evening of Feb. 22, so that these places may symbolically return to being what they have always been for 2,500 years: open squares on the city, psychic engines of a community’s life.

Ensuring compliance with all regulations, U.N.I.T.A. invites all citizens to witness their closeness, with their physical presence. “We are waiting for you in front of a theater in your city or neighborhood to leave a written trace of a thought on a sheet of paper brought from home or on a register that each theater can provide,” the appeal concludes. “Let us return for one evening to meet that essential and indispensable part of every performance without which theater simply is not: the audience.”

Pictured is the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Let's safely reopen theaters: appeal to the new government for a public plan

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