Closing scene from “Shadows of a Great City,” performed August 8, 2003

MEDIA: The time has come for us to unmask.

CAPITOLA, MEDIA, and PARALEE remove their masks. THE KING remains shrouded in his cowled robe.

MEDIA: Why do you not remove your mask, Your Highness?

CAPITOLA: Media, do not persist!

MEDIA: But the time has come, has it not?

THE KING: It has.

You will cast aside your masks,

And reveal yourselves to the world for what you truly are.

And as for me, I shall do the same, in time.

For the world grows ready for my reign.

And they will see who it is that they have accepted as their king.

I throw open the door to my kingdom!

THE KING gestures at the yellow-lighted door, an...

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