Dawn

• "I just desperately, desperately want to make sure that the core heart of our community keeps going"

Mark

• "Where I worked, the Haymarket in Leicester, has already gone"

Mary

• “I am an educator and there are so many amazing young people who need to make their mark”

Marion

• "I cannot imagine life without our Theatre by the Lake in Keswick"

Mike

• "Southampton has already lost most of its libraries"

Isla

• “I’ve always seen myself having a career related to it … I’ve felt really empty and sad”

Trevor

• "Every year from 1964 to 2019 I went to that theatre"

KK

• "So many people don't learn from textbooks, they learn through stories"

Abiola

• “Life without the arts - I’m not sure I want to imagine that”

Dick

• “I was transported, carried away from the council estate where I grew up”

Glenda

• “When I was a child, live theatre gave me the imagination to see worlds beyond my own”

Ella

• “Without the arts I’d feel like my brain was shrinking”

John

• "I hope that the theatre industry recovers fully and comes back"

Rob

• “Kids won’t have the opportunity to see the texts they’re studying performed”

Linda

• "It would be a tragedy of the highest order if we lost this"

Barbara

• "It's what woke me up to feeling in touch with life and meaning"

Nick

• "It's just vital that none of this is lost"

Matt

• "I love taking children from my school to see productions"