The Public
Theatre director Enrique is confronted by his former lover Gonzalo, who urges him to abandon his safe artistic choices and acknowledge their love. As characters cross a folding screen, the opera moves through a memory of their relationship and a radical staging of Romeo and Juliet, where a boy cast as Juliet sparks a revolution over freedom and convention. Gonzalo becomes the victim of the audience’s fury. Back in his office, Enrique accepts his love for Gonzalo as a magician appears and Gonzalo’s mother arrives to claim her son’s body.