- A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.
- The Tyrant's Heart plays back and forth between reality and the pretense of actor's on the stage. Ostensibly the story is about a Young Prince who gets a message to return home because his father has died and his mother no longer speaks to anyone. Once he gets there all manner of manipulations and untruths spill forth. He's told that his father died fighting a bear in the forest but that the citizenry have been told the King died fighting the Turks. He's also told that his mother appears younger than himself because each night she sacrifices a young woman and drinks her blood. Each member of the court has a different angle and story to tell. Ultimately it all seems to play out as a Macbeth tale, with the uncle plotting to have his soldiers kill his brother so he can have his sister-in-law as wife and be king himself. It is at this point that many of the characters appear to die and then come back to life; to reveal that something entirely different has actually occurred. The major twist involves the visiting representative of the Turks, having hired actors to portray his uncle and his mother (and so her age is more logically explained and his father isn't really dead) in order to install the Young Prince as King in alliance with the Turks. But then the Turk himself is murdered and many of the previously dead characters come back to life, saying this was all their plot to reveal the truth. Finally the prince sits on the throne. But then the fourth wall is broken again, and the characters caper about and laugh because they tell us they're ultimately only actors. The actors leave the set inside The Castle where all this has taken place, and go outside. But someone from behind the camera shoots each of the actors with an old blunderbuss and we are left wondering which of the many characters might be the one who is alive to kill them. Could it be the man who wanted to be Pope? Could it be the Turk? Could it be the father who supposedly didn't really die since the Macbeth tale was only acted out? The truth is not apparent.
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