Monday, March 28, 2011

Illyria, by Elizabeth Hand


Magic. The magic of forbidden love between Maddie and Rogan. The magic of theater as the two lovers perform the lead roles in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. And magic in their discovery of an old toy stage made of paper and cardboard - a stage that lights, that changes backdrops and that snows as unseen actors perform to an invisible audience. Their love is as fragile and inexplicable as that paper stage. But there is magic.



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