She was an actress on a fine theatre. Right now she was practising for her next role in the next play. The play was called “Does Death Excist?”, and she was to play the young Janice, trying to find out, what is hiding behind that moment, people called death. She was on the scene, and looked out on the empty hall. Was it possible to have succes with this play? She would be very happy, if she could get a higher role in the plays. This was her first main-caracteer to play, and she had waited for it in the seven years, she had been working on the theatre. She was 21 years old now. Came to the theatre as a 14 year old girl, and had worked her way to this place. “ Get to work! We haven´t got all day!” The director of the play, John, came on stage to her. “ Can you even recall your lines? If you really want this role, then get to work!” He was angry, and went down and placed himself on a seat in front row. She took a deep breath, and thought a little.

The world changed. On the scene there was a black coffin with two candleholders in each end. She was in a black dress, with a leaf, and was alone. Looked at the viewers. “ Isn´t there anyone, who can tell me, what´s hidden in this coffin? What secrets are on the other side...” She stopped, and looked at the coffin. “ I would like to know, where you are, my love...” Her lover was dead and in the coffin. But she would wake him up again. She opened the coffin, and looked at the white person in the coffin. He was dressed in a beautiful, white suit of silk. “ Tell me, what are you seeing?” She asked.

“ Perfect, I knew you could do it!” John clapped. Janice looked around. No, she wasn´t Janice, that was the person in the play. And the stage was empty, and John was on first row. But what was on the other side of the moment of death? When you stopped breathing, the heart stopped, what then? John came on stage to her. “ You do the role so well! We´ll get a good play out of this, believe me.” Together they went backstage. “ Did you really think it was good?” She asked. “ Of course! You´re a good actress, you just never really showed it before. And you are perfect as Janice.” John said with a big smile. “ Who wrote the play this time? Miguel again?” She asked. “ No, this time an anonymos person sent the script. It came with my mail, and was perfect. Darkside Theatre is the right place for this play.” He said. Darkside Theatre, that was the name of the place. They didn´t do plays with sunshine and happy days, as all other places. No political dramas, they only performed the part of human nature, that people never would admit. The darkside, that was how it got the name. And everybody had a dark side, they couldn´t deny it. The theatre was always full. There wasn´t any candy paper, and you arrived in nice clothe, often dark. It had to show what the theatre was. “ John, how did you get the idea of Darkside?” They sat at one of the tables. “ It wasn´t my idea, I got the theatre from a good friend. He said, that it now had gone so far in the world, that you could show off you true nature, how crazy it might be. And his true nature was dark like the night and it´s creatures, and that was why he called it Darkside. Suddenly one day I got a letter with the mail. With the letter was a key, and that was how I got this place. What became of my friend, I never knew. The letter is the last thing I´ve got from him.” John explained. There isn´t anything else to know. There isn´t more to know. Darkside Theatre has always been living in the darkness... and it always will...

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