The four-square-metre rule restricts us to around 20% capacity, which isn’t quite enough for those few sessions to cover us.”
Even though the venues play an eclectic mix of blockbusters and arthouse films, Tamir says “the Hollywood machine is important to all cinemas”.
Distancing rules have similarly made it financially impossible for many Australian theatre companies and live-music venues to reopen.
Cinema Nova, an independent arthouse theatre in Melbourne’s Lygon Street, is one such venue.
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