Actors in drag march to highlight virus threat to UK theater
Scores of actors, technicians and theater workers led by pantomime โDamesโ โ male actors in fabulously eccentric drag -- marched through Londonโs West End to Parliament to the beat of showtunes Wednesday, asking the government for a plan to bring theaters back to life. Itโs in deadly peril at the moment.โThe coronavirus pandemic brought down the curtains at Britainโs theaters overnight in March. โPantos sustain whole years,โ said Dec Togher, a technician at a West End theater. โItโs like a game of Kerplunk โ if you take this stick out, the whole thing collapses.โMany theater workers and artists are also struggling to survive. The Nimax group of six West End theaters will reopen starting Oct. 22, with social distancing, temperature checks and other measures.