Opening night looms, and the Globe trembles. Lucius paces in his Juliet dress like an angry ghost, threatening to quit for the hundredth time. Blake hides in a corner, rereading the script until the ink might wear off, terrified he’ll faint onstage. Shakespeare arrives with a fresh bruise and a terrible idea — rewriting the ending again — only to be shouted down by the cast. But the real disaster strikes when Lucius opens the program. It calls him Lucy Silver. Panic erupts. Blake tries to calm him. Lucius imagines the audience laughing. Blake begs him to think quieter. Two immortals spiral into chaos as the curtain draws near… and neither is ready for what comes next.
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