Advertising the company’s 2021 tour of its three-person Romeo and Juliet, The Handlebards cheekily embraced the comical–tragical paradoxes of performing Shakespeare during an ongoing pandemic. Artwork featuring a masked Juliet (Lucy Green) and Romeo (Paul Moss) snogging passionately through two layers of fabric (Figure 18) acted as a neat encapsulation of a theatre returning to business, but not yet to business as usual. It also, to indulge in an over-reading, visualized the sense of being so near yet so far, a gratification muted by the necessary compromises that allowed in-person Shakespeare to take place in a limited capacity. But this photograph is also a reminder of the creative and self-reflexive ways in which companies worked to make Shakespeare happen around the country, complementing the rich vein of born-digital Shakespeare productions that continued throughout the year.