In this issue of PUSS PUSS, we explore the space between the loud and the quiet – the duality and tension that shapes creative worlds. There are moments when we step into the spotlight and moments when we step back. The world often notices the faces in front – the performers, those who thrive on attention, on cameras, on stages. But every scene relies on those behind it: the makers, the organisers, the people quietly shaping the world from the edges. One cannot exist without the other. Some move easily between both. Comfortable in the limelight, then just as at home in the quiet of preparation. Others know exactly where they belong – either in the noise of the room or away from it entirely. Most of us shift between selves: the private, the public, the version we show out in the world and the one we keep for ourselves. Life, as the old idea of theatrum mundi reminds us, is a stage. Different roles. Different masks. Same person.