RE: Fiction: Tragedy in the theater || Tragedia en el teatro (Eng-Spn)

What you are trying to achieve in this piece is not lost on me, I just feel that it missed the mark. It needed some balance. Explaining your characters and their purpose in detail does not resolve the issues within the story that cause confusion and disconnect. I get the irony. I understood the story when I curated it. Hamlet happens to be my favourite Shakespearean play. Your story may be a clever piece that satisfies the intellect of the writer, and even amuses the intellect of the reader, but it doesn't connect emotionally, and therefore doesn't land with the aplomb that you had probably intended. It is not clear from whose perspective we are expected to be reading the story, and the narrator only makes an entrance much later. You describe three men, two who are fencing and another who hits the lady, yet at the end there are four ticket holders and we are now told that the 4th was likely the one who hit the lady? I am not understanding the math, and that creates more confusion. As writers, we often write first and foremost for ourselves. But, when we choose to publish to an audience, we need to ensure that we give our readers enough to feel invested in the characters and the outcome. This was not the case for me with this piece. You bring something different to The Ink Well that a lot of people could learn from so there is an aspect to your writing that I find brilliant. I can appreciate the literary artistry and simultaneously provide advice that, for me to derive pleasure from the piece, I also need to feel a connection to the characters and the story. In the end, if the writer does not make them matter to me, what is the point? I simply advise that there needs to be some balance. But, it is your story and your writing, and you must write what you want to write. I can only provide feedback on the reader experience.