Theatre can be very profitable if you don’t have to pay for an actual performance. Via As a dramaturg, one of my main tasks in developing new works is to find the core of the script, the seed from which the entire play grows. I apply this same strategy to my work as a CFR columnist, peeling back the layers of a story or event to find its essence, to go spelunking like Alice through the looking glass. For this story, there was no bottom to find, no essence to unlock.
