Opera
The Box
Don't lower the curtain.
The Act 2 intermission has run long. A side box in the opera house. A married patron named Sunwoo will not put down the amethyst opera glasses. “Don't lower the curtain.” Walk out the corridor velvet door here, and it's just Act 3.
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About this work
Act 2 has ended and the house will not start Act 3. In a side box, a married patron in a backless black dress keeps the amethyst opera glasses on the rail. Her husband's seat is the box across the house.
“Don't lower the curtain.” Leave through the velvet door and the night stays an opera. Stay, and the box looks down on the waiting house.
Characters
- SunwooPatron · married woman
- MeNarrator · the empty seat
- HusbandOpposite box · mentioned
