mixersuggwell
I loved writing this. There was so many routes I could of gone down with the idea of 'covid stress' but I love how this turned out and hope everyone else does too.
"Ok guys, we've just got news in now....."
It was then everybody in the room turned their heads to the voice echoing from over in the corner. Their producer for the joe and dianne show.
"We can't do the show"
It felt like the whole world came crashing down in that moment. They knew it wasn't the end of everything, they all knew that. It was something easy to reschedule but after all the hard work they had put in, it was the last thing everybody involved wanted. To get something like this up and running, despite it being called 'the joe and dianne show', there was so many more people, all hardworking people behind the scenes determined to put together a show that joe and dianne were proud of and could have memories from for the rest of their lives. From their writer Toby, to the producers, choreographer trent and their cast it was sad that it could no longer go on but for joe and dianne it was even harder.
There had been this constant sort of dark cloud over them the past week. It seemed odd. This was meant to be one of their happiest times but the uncertainty of whether their show would go ahead or not was truthfully having a sort of strain on their relationship. They hadn't yet realised how much it was getting to them but their lack of communication beyond the training room was clear. Every night when they went home after training all it was, was dinner and bed. No daily debrief, no chat, not even a hug in bed before going to sleep. It wasn't like they were arguing or as if there was an imbalance in control but the fact that everything they had worked so hard for and put all their time and effort into might not of been able to go ahead was affecting them in very different ways and without feeling open enough to talk about it, it left them in the way they were now. They always got up and went off every morning, did their rehearsals and left it at that whilst they waited patiently for any government update on the current situation.
Covid-19, whatever that meant, seemed to be a big threat. Especially for their show. And now it had taken over.
There was a big sigh that could be heard amongst everybody in the room. The news was clearly expected but still dreaded and therefore there was still an element of shock. They were in their final days. The show was due to start next week and they had ran the show from start to finish already. Their tech run was due tomorrow, their dress run the next day and now they had this....the show couldn't go on.
"Mhm...."
Joe looked down sadly, trying to figure out in his own mind how to process it. He was sad. A part of him felt angry but he was mainly frustrated. He had seen this tour as an opportunity to keep dancing. His love for the art had come so much further since strictly and he almost felt a sense of jealously that dianne could go back and do it again and he couldn't. He had missed it. Dancing was all he wanted to do. He had missed the performance element of it aswell. To get back to do a show like this was huge for him and to do it with dianne too was the most important. To do what he had fallen in love with, dance, with the girl who had made him fall in love with it, aswell as her was all he wanted now though it was impossible. With the announcement of a lockdown which he still didn't really know what it meant, he came to understand that he could no longer do what he had learnt to love with the girl he had fallen in love with.
She was stood not far away from him. In her rehersal clothes and crossed arms, she looked tired. Her hair was piled on top of her head and since those words had broken from their producers mouth she seemed pale. Joe had noticed and came over to her, putting an arm around her and bringing her closer to his chest.
