In the magic realism tradition
of Mozart and Emanuel Schikaneder's The Magic Flute,
where music brings safety in harrowing times;
in the tradition of Shakespearean identity subterfuge,
or of Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte's Marriage of Figaro,
-- based on a play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais,
the French playwright who supplied arms to the American Revolution --
The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen
is a hyperfiction libretto where the unmasking of spies and perpetrators
is woven into a diffuse wedding celebration.

But if it is a time to divulge
how with surveillance and systems of interference
love has been stolen or diverted,
it is also a time to reclaim true love.
Unexpected guests, accounts of the lives of Renaissance artists,
the wedding celebration -- its events narrated by Gwen
-- is underway.