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04 Can't Act

from Contact by Walther's Wallpaper

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The house lights dim, the crowd returns. They’re confirming your suspicions that the show up to this point was just an intermission, but as the curtains rise you find yourself surprised by the strange new way your stage is organized. Where are your parents? Where’re your friends? What happened to your summers and your weekends? It’s like waking up. You’re wondering, “How long have I been sleeping?” You were a child only yesterday, now the time you had has been replaced by a memory that seems to small to fill the space. Is it too late?
The stage seemed large when you were small and all the lights shown a bit more brightly on adventures and romance that you swore you would have someday, but the first act of the script and half the actors you’re working with have you worried that this show’s not to your taste. You were cast into a part that you did not expect to play, but broken legs won’t make it easier to run away from fate. You eye the stage door to your right, but as you’re about to move a light burns your painted face; the stage and door are gone. The show goes on…
He cries his last soliloquy as the cast whisper asides. The chorus sings in sotto voce and as they do our hero dies. The lights go up, the curtain falls. The crowd wakes up and then applauds. The theater empties, friends and family leave him flowers. He stands before a mirror and wipes the makeup from his face. As he’s heading for the door he takes his flowers off the stage, and although he didn’t get to pick his part or change his script, he reluctantly admits it’s not the stage… it’s how it’s played.

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from Contact, track released November 19, 2012
Ian Troester-Solbrig

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Named after the inventor of the optical planetarium (W. Bauersfeld), Walther's Wallpaper presents dark and comical stories from history, art, and imagination in the form of danceable songs. Sibling duo Ian and Chloe danced to the beats of a Casio SA-8 before they started keeping their own memories. They wear more clothes now. ... more

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