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Stages of grief: how theatre is helping communities say goodbye

by Natasha Tripney

After lockdown made collective mourning impossible, two new productions are remembering lost loved ones " and making a case for theatre's social use One of the many things that lockdown deprived us of was a chance to properly mourn those we lost. For more than 15 months people have often been denied the opportunity to participate in the rituals of grief, as individuals and as communities. To grieve is a basic human n…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:36am on July 6, 2021