'Keep doing your daily routines as much as possible when disaster strikes' Willem Jaap Zwart is director of theatre, film house and arts centre Concordia in Enschede, and he knows what he is talking about. As a resident of Enschede, he experienced the fireworks disaster, and even then the motto was: show resilience, and stay close to yourself: 'On the day it happened, I immediately thought: can I help, can I still do something, so I went to watch, until I realised that that was a very bad idea and I should just stay at home. My wife, meanwhile, had started baking sandwiches for all the kids.'
In this podcast, we talk about running a theatre at a time when everything is on lockdown, and people can only get together virtually. So what do you do, how do you keep your spirits up? Black has some useful tips for keeping it going.
'The most positive thing is that FC Twente cannot lose this weekend.'