Every time the theatre runs Giselle they find themselves dreading Act II and the arrival of the Wilis with Queen Myrtha leading them on in droves that only grow with every showing. It began with just one extra dancer who threw off the human ballerinas - the ones who had spent months training for this show only to find the actual actress playing Queen Myrtha dead and something phantom in her place.
Though the original show ran under a different name back in the early 1830's, the story behind it is centuries older still and the women whose souls were wracked with the agony their lover's betrayal go back even further than can be measured.
Giselle has always been their story and every theatre their reenactment.
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