'Food for the soul': museums and theatres stage tongue-in-cheek protest
'Food for the soul': museums and theatres stage tongue-in-cheek protest
Standing onstage, ready to perform at the world-renowned Concertgebouw, Lysandro Cicilia was a little nervous. ‘Better not lop off my finger!’ he quipped, before the first stirring bars of Charles Ives’ Symphony No 2 began. Cicilia is actually a hairdresser, performing his first haircut live on stage as part of a national protest that ‘contact professions’ like hair and nail stylists are open – but the cultural sector is not. To make this point, some 70 institutions across the Netherlands... More >
