Robbie Butler is a freelance lighting designer who has worked on productions including Southwark Playhouse’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Bolton Octagon’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Complicité’s The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke.
Reading plays during this third lockdown can make our hearts soar and sink at the bittersweet illumination of our shared humanity, capturing how we are feeling right now as a new year brings renewed hope, if not unbridled joy, says playwright Sudha Bhuchar
National Theatre director Rufus Norris has called for money awarded in the next round of the Culture Recovery Fund to be “ring-fenced” for productions, claiming this will help support freelancers who have so far not been eligible for support