Queening

I’ve never written a review just for my own platform before.

I guess I’ve never, like, breathed before not really

I’m sat here with the football on and I feel like

free

so like,

imma go a bit rogue with this one and fuck convention.

yeah.

For ages when I was sat in the theatre watching, I thought the actor was pretty funny cos she was really good at being kind of Miranda-ish and British and awkward but at the same time she seemed really nervous and a bit out of control and when the script went serious it felt like the writing and acting got a bit preachy and less original

but then

all the way home I couldn't stop just thinking it over, like all the stuff I’d seen and heard and everything.

And I decided to man-spread on the tube.

it was pretty great, to be honest.

Cos even though I was sat there watching the play thinking it's full of clichés, the character was saying stuff about how when she was with her ex-husband she kept making herself smaller

and like

I’ve just broken up with someone too and like

that touched a chord

cos like I’ve always thought of myself as someone who feels comfortable taking up space but somehow I never thought about it in that way before? like, I don’t normally manspread on the tube. And I don’t normally walk with long, calm, decisive strides. And I don’t normally go in a shop and pick something out in 2 seconds, pay and walk out with like such conviction.

But I did all those things tonight after the play.

So like maybe it did something. idk.

also

I’ve never written a review all about myself before cos like,,,,,,, reviewing isn’t about me but about the piece I'm reviewing but like fuck it I wanna try something new.

idk it’s not the best theatre in the world but it’s touched me pretty deep somehow like - I guess it’s pretty powerful stuff and got me in spite of myself. Huh.

Plays can be funny like that I guess

u know what. imma do stars cos I quite like stars.

here are some stars

no idea if the number of stars here means anything. you decide.

Ella Satin