Beyond The Curtain

Lavender shadows punctuated the plots denouement with a mawkish groan, leaving the audience unaware that this was their cue to clap. There was silence. Such aberrant behavior made the actors nervous. As one, they turned looked stage left, and saw the mute specters slowly grin - faceless, cozened smirks. Then, their exit. An impenetrable gyre of ghastly chill. The applause began somewhere in the back of the godforsaken theatre.