Mid-morning, Alexandra Aldrich got a phone call telling her that night she would be on stage playing a role she had never rehearsed.
“Oh my god, this is the dream you have: when you’re naked, and you don’t know the play, and someone tells you you’re going on stage.”Joe ArmaoHeartbreak Choir
“To says those words for the second time ever, on stage that day, in front of an audience ... other than being scary, it was awesome,” she says.In 2022, the unsung heroes of Australian theatre are the players dubbed “COVID covers”. Understudies and “swings” are a luxury usually reserved for commercial theatre: now they’re a necessity that all companies can barely afford, but on which the show depends.in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra this year, COVID-19 dogged them.
Houghton says understudying every role, basically having an entire spare cast, is unfeasible.“There’s barely enough money to pay for one,” he says. “The goodwill of the audience is extraordinary but how far can you stretch that? Often, they’ve bought a ticket to see certain people... it compromises the show too much.“But if we’re going into this winter period where every day I’m getting four or five people testing [positive], it’s just very hard to manage moving on with live theatre.”
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