Such Stuff

A short, hypnotic work of fiction that explores an actor’s unraveling psyche in the moments before she takes the stage.

In a theater in London, an hour before the curtain rises, an actor must perform the delicate act of slipping out of her own identity and into another. As she prepares to transform into Miranda, the daughter of Prospero in The Tempest, she struggles to escape her real-life role as a grieving daughter.

Today, on the anniversary of her father’s death, which is also her birthday...