Prologue

[MEN & WOMEN]
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[FLAMINIO, spoken]
A wooden stage, an audience, and a great actor. This, my friends, is my idea of heaven.

[PANTALONE, spoken]
Actors can never get enough love. When the croWd applauds, it's as if you're in the arms of a lover. Ohh.

[COLUMBINA, spoken]
If you're good in bed, you're good on stage. It's that simple. Acting is chemistry between people. It's all about sex.

[ARMANDA, spoken]
Bark like a dog, show your naked bottom, dangle from the rope, flapping paper wings. Actors will do anything for a laugh.

[DOTTORE, spoken]
Oh, how we love the tricks of our trade! Fake blood! Tin swords! Codpieces this widе. Ladies, come see the show!

[ISABELLA, spoken]
Our livеs are like a play within a play. Backstage drama, secret desires. Half the time, we're not really acting at all.

[FRANCESCO, spoken]
Ambition. If you don't have that, there's no point going on. Change with the times or get off the stage.

[FLAMINIO, spoken]
Does anyone know who I am? What I've created? How we rose and fell?

[ALL, spoken]
Creatures of the stage

[FLAMINIO, spoken]
With one last tale to tell