The Costume of a Fact

🫧 Open on Bubbles When something terrible happens, we reach for one of two boxes. The person was a monster — there were signs, there always are, and if we look hard enough we’ll find them. Or the person was ordinary and something in them broke, an inexplicable flip, a good man gone wrong. After the Cumbria shootings in 2010, the tabloids ran the first play at full speed: a twenty-year-old theft, some trips to Thailand, a habit of griping about money, all of it assembled into a portrait of a man who was alwa