Just like live theatre

The pandemic turns out to be a bit like living on the National Theatre set of a Harold Pinter play.

There is a good reason we are obsessed with backdrops. You have seen the faces – your colleagues, your favourite Pilates teacher, the Duchess of Cambridge – 1,000 times but you haven’t seen inside their homes.

The pandemic has forced us to make our private spaces public. And what may have begun as a voyeuristic interest is morphing into something else as the potential “new normal” sees us spend much more time at home long term.

Your house is no longer just your home. It’s your HQ.

Just like live theatre – which, in a way, it is – the magic of the Zoom backdrop is in the potential for disaster.

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