During the last press conference, it was announced that from 1 June the theaters, cinemas, museums, restaurants and cultural institutions may open again cautiously. This is bound by all kinds of strict rules. For example, a distance of one and a half meters must be kept and reservations must be made in advance, and a maximum of thirty people may be present in the building, including personnel. 

So there will still be little taxi transport at the theaters in the major cities as long as the doors are still ajar due to the rules that have been imposed. The Netherlands is getting a little more space again, but we have to be careful, if this does not work, the reins will be tightened again. If this 'test period' The number of persons may well be increased from 1 July to 100 persons.

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Albert Verlinde is angry and says it is a deception that theaters will reopen on June 1. It is not yet clear how the theaters will deal with the new regulations, there will have to be adapted programs.

"I think it is very sad when I hear this, that the deception is that the theaters will open from 1 June," says Albert Verlinde in Good Morning Netherlands on NPO1. "That is simply not true," he says. During the press conference on Wednesday it became clear that from June 1, theaters may receive a maximum number of 30 visitors.

Verlinde would have preferred Prime Minister Rutte to have said the theaters close stayed. "Then be a guy and say that. This is a mock openingVerlinde thinks. "You already need four men to let people inHe explains. "I don't think anything will open in the Netherlands. "

Director Rob van Steen of the Tilburg theater also does not yet know how he will apply the rules, he does know that artists do not perform 20 times for a small audience, this is out of the question. It is therefore necessary to look at other possibilities, such as theater schools or art academies that can give performances or performances there. Let's hope the way to easing is open.

The director of the Luxor Theater in Rotterdam says: “This is unfeasible, in the Old Luxor there are nine hundred chairs, in the New Luxor fifteen hundred. I understand this small step, but this is not economically interesting for us. The offer we show needs a larger audience. We can, however, see if we can possibly be of service to another within the city. For example, by supporting a colleague with a smaller capacity, who has no options. ”

Major events can only be held again if there is a vaccine against the coronavirus. Until then, the government thinks the danger is too great that it will revive. Organizers and the public have to wait, because the cabinet cannot yet specify a date for the events.

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