About The Series
Rewind Revue is a series of reflective responses to performances, exhibitions, places and screen work, written after the initial moment has passed.
These pieces favour attention over speed. Rather than rushing to judgement, they sit with what lingers once the noise has faded, asking how a work lands over time, how it is shaped by context and access, and what it leaves behind. Distance is not a limitation here, but a method.
Each Rewind Revue is grounded in clear positioning. How the work was encountered, under what conditions, and why that matters are part of the writing itself. These are not consumer guides or verdicts, but considered returns, shaped by lived experience and careful looking.
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Yerma, Watched From a Distance
in Rewind RevueSimon Stone’s adaptation of Yerma, encountered via Drama Online’s National Theatre Collection, remains devastating. Watched from a distance, it becomes a study in pressure, isolation and the slow unravelling of a life shaped by expectation.
Colin Cushion 