
#open with the queen centre stage #wide open isolated court a performance space #and the floor is hers to hold #in contrast to the start of the season where her first shot is filtered through the bars of a gilded cage #her voice ground out beneath the swell of men’s voices#trapped and silenced within the confines of day-to-day queenly protocol; perversely empowered in the midst of death and destruction #because now finally she can wrest the narrative back into her hands #she does not have to play queen-as-prop; waiting for the full weight of the prophecy to fall upon her #or queen-as-prize; waiting for her handsome knight to save her #instead she can be queen-as-soldier; queen-as-narrator #and the story she reclaims her last act of warfare #darling #stunning scenes stunning graphics etc