'It's been deeply odd': how NIDA, Australia's most prestigious acting school, is managing the pandemic
For students of Sydney's National Institute for Dramatic Art, it hasn't exactly been the year they signed up for Final-year acting student Alex Stamell was deep into rehearsals for Will Eno's Middletown when the Covid-19 shutdown was announced at Sydney's National Institute for Dramatic Art (NIDA). "There were rumours swirling around before that, but then it all happened very quickly," Stamell said. "We showed up to …