Oi! You in the stalls! Put that phone away and surrender to the art | Nadia Khomami

As Rosamund Pike found out recently on stage, many people now experience the arts simply as content to be documented for likes and shares Have we lost the ability to surrender to a story? Surely, if there’s any narrative that deserves our undivided attention, it’s that of a crown court judge fighting the legal system’s approach to sexual violence against women, when she discovers her own son has been accused of rape. But as Rosamund Pike discovered last weekend, even such a visceral and emoti...

By Nadia Khomami