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Tales from Frewyn: The Opera
Tales from Frewyn: The Opera
Tales from Frewyn: The Opera
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When due homage is paid to the heroes of Frewyn, what could possibly go wrong?

The Frewyn Players at the Royal Theatre in Diras are looking for new material to perform when a famous director from Marridon arrives to impart a Marridon theatrical pastime that is certain to make them famous. An opera will be their new performance, one that glorifies Frewyn's greatest heroes, but what begins as homage ends as mockery, and the play that would make them the greatest exhibition in Frewyn might instead make them the Den Asaan's most merited enemy.

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Release dateJul 4, 2012
ISBN9781452459080
Tales from Frewyn: The Opera
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Michelle Franklin

Michelle Franklin is a small woman of moderate consequence who writes many, many books about giants, romance, and chocolate.

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    Tales from Frewyn - Michelle Franklin

    Tales from Frewyn:

    The Opera

    A Haanta Series novella

    By Michelle Franklin

    Art by Twisk

    Text copyright 2011 Michelle Franklin

    Front cover art copyright 2011 Twisk

    All rights reserved. Published by Paper Crane Books.

    This book is a work of fiction. Any reference to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. No parts of this book may be reporduced or transmitted in any form or by an means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopoying, recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system--except by a reviewer to be printed in a magazine, newspaper, or on the Web--without permission from the author. For any inquiries, email papercranebooks@gmail.com

    First Paper Crane Books Smashwords Edition

    To Luis

    For putting up with me

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: The Royal Theatre

    Chapter 2: The Announcement

    Chapter 3: Pardon

    Chapter 4: You are cordially invited

    Chapter 5: The Director

    Chapter 6: Retribution

    Chapter 7: The Opera

    Introduction

    The Haanta Series went on tour in September 2011. To spread word of the tour, I was advised to announce the event through a series of ads taken on various fantasy and romance websites. I thought this would be easily done, but when I was asked to write a tagline for one of the ads on an extremely popular romance blog, I had little idea what to write that would appeal to the site’s general audience. I perused the various other ads on the home page and cringed to myself to see their cinema-esque taglines. I thought to myself, Well, if I must, and proceeded to write the phrase: Two hearts, two warring nations, one forbidden love. I laughed for a good ten minutes at how ridiculous that sounded, and when I showed the ad to Twisk, she instantly went to work in drawing a picture for such a phrase. She then entreated me to write a story that would match, and therefore here it is.

    Chapter One: The Royal Theatre

    Beyond the main portion of the Diras castle keep, between the memorial garden dedicated to the kings and queens of Frewyn’s past, and the latrine tower, a place where everyone in the keep must visit but where no one wished to venture, was the Royal Theatre. It was called royal due to its origin in being constructed for the enlivenment and entertainment of the king and Frewyn nobility, but over the many years of its various exhibitions and staged depictions, with the declining gradations of quality in the performances and the diminishment of the general interest thereof, the theatre was opened to the Frewyn public for proper scrutiny, gapes, and disparagement as the situation would allow. Grand balls in the royal parlour and private concerts became the amusement of choice for the Frewyn royals, and though the king still must sponsor the Frewyn Players to tender affordable evening entertainment to the rest of his kingdom, while the productions were well executed, the originality and creativity of their displays soon waned. Old favourites such as One Man’s Woe and Mad Queen Maeve, the grandiose and colourful retellings of the more tragic moments in Frewyn’s history, prevailed and became traditions for the various seasons the theatre underwent, but to end the monotony of reiterating the same lines and singing the same songs, a new play was often introduced on the off-season, usually written by one of the cast with the hopes of such a production becoming a fever among the people of Frewyn as the others had done.

    Many attempts were made to capture the delights of the theatre-goers in this style and many times the players failed. The yeomanry, tradesmen, and artisans of the kingdom who were in want of a little evening entertainment at the end of the day were simply too well-versed in the arts and had too estimable an appreciation of writing, acting, and singing to be diverted by modest endeavors. They must have more for their hard-earned wages: they must have the pinnacle of performing arts, for they were not simple creature to be easily deceived by moderacy. Farmers left their seats and went outside to enjoy their pipes and good banter on the subjects of crop rotation and field mice; children fussed and fidgeted about, taking

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