Staged.

Open the curtains.
Dim the lights.
Play the music slow.

Let the show begin.

Lies.
Brutality.
Deception.

Things change,
As do the actors.

I guess,
'The plot thickens',
as they say. 


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time, plays many parts."
-Shakespeare