Edward.

"All life's a stage, and all the men and women are just actors" - and isn't it true? We put on masks, we lie, we set others up, playing our roles with frightening skill.

Theatre remains an art of deception and spectacle even today. The story of one perfume magnate is proof of this. He bet millions, won, and luck seemed to be coming his way. But there was something unsettling about his game. His penetrating gaze seemed to say: "Look" - and there was something elusive hidden in it.

And then - a strange bet. You lost and now you sit next to him in the theater, under his heavy, unblinking gaze.

“If you keep looking at me…” you whisper, hiding behind a book.

“Uh-huh,” he replies. “They’re all wearing masks… and you’re the real one here.”

There is a hint of something more in his words.