Plot:Winter Opera

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Opera's murder, when Ira Almasy's involved...

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The esteemed guests arrive at the Paul Hamlyn Hall. Ira Almasy is on the floor.
The Guests Arrive
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Arrivals :: The Floor
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Arrivals :: The Bar
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It is nearly an hour until the curtains open. Guests may proceed to their respective boxes or continue to linger in the Hall.
Boxes Open
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The Theater :: Box 1
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The Theater :: Box 2
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The Theater :: Box 3
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The Theater :: Box 4
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The Theater :: Box 5
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The Opera is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, which revolves around King Leontes, ruler of Sicily. Naturally, the performance is sung in Italian.

Suspicious of infidelity between his wife - Hermione - and the visiting King Polixenes of Bohemia, Leontes makes attempts to have his fellow king poisoned. This plan fails and Polixenes escapes from Sicily promptly. In his anger, Leontes chooses to imprison his pregnant wife.

Our performance differs from the play when Queen Hermione gives birth to a son rather than a daughter. The boy is suspected to be Polixenes' illegitimate son; he is given the name Perdito and sent away to live an anonymous life on the coast of Bohemia, raised by Shepherds.

The final act before intermission takes place 18 years later in the court of King Polixenes; he has been informed that his daughter - Princess Florizel - has fallen in love with a lowly shepherd boy.

The act draws to an end with the King resolving to disguise himself as a peasant and travel to the coast, where he will seek out the shepherd boy who has secured his daughter's affections. Curtain close.
The Performance Begins
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The performance is at its intermission. Guests may stay in their respective boxes. General consensus is that the performance has been exquisitely designed but the plot thus far predictable. The music is, as expected, elaborate and powerful. Those with active temperaments are bored by the goings-on.
The Intermission
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Ten minutes away from the end of intermission.

The theater lights still glare down at the audience, bright and golden. Those closest to the front can hear an abrupt scattering of footsteps backstage, followed by hurried exclamations. A thud. Without warning, the curtains begin to pull apart.

They peel away to reveal a fully lit stage. Several of the cast are staring up at the ceiling and turn around, pale-faced, to the audience. Some spectators laugh at this folly. "Close it!" a voice offstage yells but it is too late.

A loud crack cuts through the laughter and a row of bodies fall from above- not quite hitting the stage floor. The wide, aghast eyes of the Opera's principle performers stare back at the audience as the lynched corpses rocked by their necks like ripened fruit. Somebody screams.
The Murder Scene
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The International Society of Wizarding Arts and their invitees were in for a nasty surprise at the annual winter opera last evening, when curtains were drawn precipitously at intermission to reveal the lynched bodies of the troupe's leading performers.
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