We went to an afternoon showing of the children’s opera which was about a vampire. The show was intended for children that were perhaps aged six or older. I am guessing for a children’s opera it was well attended as there were perhaps 100 adults and children there. In the front were five panels that were perhaps three or four feet wide and had line drawings of trees, birds and squirrels.
The show was just getting started, at this point nothing had happened and none of the characters had even made an entrance. In order to simulate nighttime they started to turn the panels around one at a time, where the other side was completely black.
By the time the fourth and final panel was turned around there was a small squeak from the front of the audience. One of the little six year old girls threw up her hands and shouted “I want to go home”. As there was no real cause for such a reaction the adults simply smiled, well all of them except for perhaps the little girl’s parents.