Midsummer fever dream

● CONDITIONS FOR THE RETURN of theatre at scale are a torrid mixture of psychology, epidemiology and economics. Hordes of us double-vaxxed folk are desperate to get back to the stalls. Overall though, “theatre hesitancy” abounds among a lot of audiences who attend on a whim and can’t make advance travel audiences, which drive revenues for a venue like London’s Globe Theatre, have evaporated and won’t return until 2022 at least. So even a pleasantly open venue dubbed a “cultural superpower” by