Samuel Woo Ling

Review: The Cage Protects Me at The Loft Main House

The set of The Cage Protects Me, designed by Amy Carroll and Caitlin Mills, immediately draws the audience into another world. Both a home and a terrible fortress, the events of the play unfold in a church in the ‘Old West’ ghost town of Drylake, Texas. The place is rural,...
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Posted Nov. 4, 2025

It’s funny and it’s horrifying: Humour and darkness in art

I wonder if I’m the only person who finds Andy Warhol’s 1976 series ‘Skulls’ to be mildly amusing.  Warhol apparently became obsessed with the idea of death after being shot and critically wounded in 1968, leading eventually to the creation of the ‘Skulls’ series, containing six versions of the same skull,...
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Posted Oct. 25, 2025