Ralph Fiennes dissects the meaning of drama

I feel [Coriolanus] is like some magnificent beast or animal; like a horse that has always been trained to be this pure thing. Then suddenly the trainer — his mother — turns around and says, “Can you actually be this entirely other thing?” So he tries but then suddenly it all fucks up and goes crazy.

- Ralph Fiennes, interviewed in The Spectator

Info ex machina

The Greeks had a chorus, which was a sort of mythic Google.

- AA Gill, The Sunday Times

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