Chapter 50: The Stage

Chapter 50: The Stage

(Binky Lemontwist, June 7th, 2012)

The Stage. Many have lived their whole lives on one.

But not this stage, for this is the Stage of the House. It is one that only the bravest of entertainers go on. Story-tellers with many great (and most likely illegal) adventures under their belt — singers and musicians who have sung to pirates, princes, dragons, peasants, and spies and lived to sing the tale — actors who are not really acting, and other fearless ones.

The Stage is a beautiful and magnetic combination of reality, entertainment, and danger.

The Stage is stained with dye (or so they say) and its purple heavy velvet curtains have been known to swallow whole people up from time to time. The Stage has trapdoors that accidentally open, lights that sometimes catch on fire, and on occasion a rubber knife is replaced with metal.

But oh, the tales you can hear and see on that stage. Pirate adventures, tragedies from the Gardeners, romances told by dragons, space voyages told by aliens and astronauts, and so much more.

Beware if you go on the Stage.70

70 In the comments: Robert Quick: “It’s always safer to be in the audience. Except in the House, sometimes the audience becomes the stage, for are we not all entertainers?”