With income forecast to be 74% lower than last year, Fuel Theatre shares the detail of what they're pledging to themselves, and what they're pledging to audiences, artists and the wider community as the Covid crisis unfolds.
We thought it might be time to share some more about where we’re at with all this change. I hope this is useful, even though it is as full of questions as answers, and as full of uncertainty as it is of commitment.
The family of theatre makers who are Fuel – staff and freelancers alike – are all-absorbing a huge amount of change every day and every week. It is a rollercoaster – some days are overwhelming, others are exhilarating: the combination is exhausting.
We spent the first few weeks after lockdown ‘unproducing’ (thanks to David Greig for that new word) a programme of work we’d carefully put together for 2020. We committed to paying everyone who was expecting to work with us from March to the end of June in full. We shared updates with our audiences. We started talking with our partners about their situation, and the constantly evolving timelines which we might work towards in rescheduling long-planned projects. Then we started helping freelancers and non-NPOs with their applications for ACE emergency funds and other hardship grants.
Since early April, we’ve been doing lots of thinking about where we are and what comes next. We want Fuel to survive this, to be useful and kind during it, and to be true to our values and our mission throughout...Keep reading on Fuel Theatre
We thought it might be time to share some more about where we’re at with all this change. I hope this is useful, even though it is as full of questions as answers, and as full of uncertainty as it is of commitment.
The family of theatre makers who are Fuel – staff and freelancers alike – are all-absorbing a huge amount of change every day and every week. It is a rollercoaster – some days are overwhelming, others are exhilarating: the combination is exhausting.
We spent the first few weeks after lockdown ‘unproducing’ (thanks to David Greig for that new word) a programme of work we’d carefully put together for 2020. We committed to paying everyone who was expecting to work with us from March to the end of June in full. We shared updates with our audiences. We started talking with our partners about their situation, and the constantly evolving timelines which we might work towards in rescheduling long-planned projects. Then we started helping freelancers and non-NPOs with their applications for ACE emergency funds and other hardship grants.
Since early April, we’ve been doing lots of thinking about where we are and what comes next. We want Fuel to survive this, to be useful and kind during it, and to be true to our values and our mission throughout... Keep reading on Fuel Theatre