The Spectator

A tale of two shows.

Welcome to Olympus City, where super-powers, physics-defying tech, and unearthly creatures are all possible now. Human nature, however, remains unchanged.

No one is born a perfect superhero, but a few strive to live up to the ideal anyway.

Warm lights bathed the cast as they took their bows. They had immersed their audience in the timeless tale of Doctor Faustus over the past few hours, and the audience now immersed them in sustained applause.

Miranda was part of the latter group. She, too, sprang to her feet and clapped. The cast had more than earned it. She remembered standing on the floorboards of this thrust stage, under those lights, the cheers flowing from multiple directions as the cozy auditorium of the Aeschylus Theatre enveloped her. It was the comfiest of blankets.