Lights flicker back on the stage. Small and big theatre teams in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka are slowly returning to regular rehearsals. Now they face a new crisis: the fund crunch.

After about six months of the shutdown, the theatre halls reopened on a limited scale, but it was next to impossible to raise enough funds to meet the costs by leaving the auditoriums half-empty amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The economic impact of the pandemic has also affected many artists, forcing them to form new teams or go back home to their villages. to overcome the long-running economic crisis.

https://bdnews24.com/entertainment/2020/11/15/cash-strapped-dhaka-theatres-struggle-to-return-from-pandemic-blues