The Drama: Who are we to judge?

In A24’s movie The Drama Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya)’s wedding preparation is thrown off by a seemingly innocent game, initiated by her maid of honour Rachel: revealing the worst thing they’ve ever done. SPOILER ALERT: The secrets of each person in...

Run Away to the Forest

What As You Like It teaches us about escape, identity, and the quiet fantasy of starting over. Something of an afterthought Isabel Adomakoh Young as Orlando and Nina Bowers as Rosalind in As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe. (2023) Photograph: Ellie Kurttz There’s a...
Beyond the Stage

Beyond the Stage

Beijing. I am seated in the audience of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. On the stage below, an unmistakably deliberate narrative is laid out—birch forests, permafrost, feminine softness, and the order of the collective. The moment the first piece begins,...