1. So, I was listening to the story, and was all prepare to think, "Hey look! Another story set in the theatre making a horror movie when a REAL horror breaks out . . . Just like the last one!" Except, as best as I can tell, the real horror never broke out. As best as I can tell, this was a psychodrama, not "fantasy." I mean, I was COMPLETELY on the side of "This is fantasy" during all the "Is it or isn't it" arguments. I think a little bit of the uncanny is perfectly sufficient to make a good Fantastic Tale. But I couldn't even find that here. A good "this is definitely fantasy" argument would likely convince me, but I can't find that argument here.
2. I grew up thinking that Austrians and Germans all had British accents because of "The Sound of Music." Later on, I conflated by British accents with the French because of Captain Picard on Star Trek. Now a Scotsman (?) doing French? I couldn't help but imagining the Monty Python sketch. ("You're not a Frenchman!" "Yes, I am." "But you're wearing a kilt!" "No law against Frenchmen wearing kilts." . . .)
3. There was something weird about how the story was framed. It started out with A talking to B about C. Then it backed up, and we got C's perspective, and he mentiond D. And then it backed up again . . . I was starting the follow, but then the pattern broke (or, more likely, I just created a pattern that wasn't there to begin with.) I think that if you are going to jump from narrator to narrator in a story this short, there should be a little more rhyme and reason. Maybe there was, but I missed it.
Rating: 4 out of 13 Friday the 13ths.