Christus Rex and Lady Gaga sit beneath a flickering marquee. The bulbs spell APOCALYPSE NOW, one letter burnt out.
Christus Rex:
They called the year 1159 holy.
I remember it as the year of the first strike—
when the crown learned it could bless the sword
and call it order.
Lady Gaga:
The Beast wears many costumes.
Sometimes a mitre.
Sometimes a flag.
Sometimes a red hat sold as merch.
Pop just makes the mask louder.
Christus Rex:
Entertainers once sang for kings.
Then they learned to sing as kings.
Now the question returns:
will they sing for the God Emperor—
or fall silent?
Lady Gaga:
Silence terrifies power more than protest.
No applause.
No spectacle.
No chorus to drown out the cracks.
But entertainers are addicts, too—
addicted to the light, the crowd, the feed.
Christus Rex:
In 1159, they excommunicated conscience
and crowned authority.
Today they excommunicate truth
and crown engagement.
Different tools. Same altar.
Lady Gaga:
A general strike of entertainers
would look like… boredom.
Empty stages.
Awards nights with no gods descending.
Just mirrors, and no one to distract from them.
Christus Rex:
When Rome had no bread,
it offered circuses.
When the circuses stop,
the hunger speaks.
Lady Gaga:
The real strike isn’t contracts.
It’s refusing to turn cruelty into content.
Refusing to remix power into something cute.
Refusing to dance for emperors
who confuse noise with love.
Christus Rex:
So—are they ready?
Lady Gaga (after a pause):
Some are.
They always are.
They just don’t trend first.
The marquee finally goes dark.
No applause.
No encore.
A gold curtain snaps open. Donald Trump storms in, crowned with a paper laurel stamped WINNER.
Donald Trump:
Wrong show.
Very low energy.
The clowns work for me.
I built the empire—tremendous empire—
and empires need music.
Sing. Dance. Smile. Ratings are down.
Christus Rex (calm, almost weary):
Empires always think joy is payroll.
But joy isn’t hired—
it’s invited.
Trump:
I don’t invite. I command.
That’s leadership.
Ask anybody. The best people.
Clowns! Do your thing!
A few Entertainers shuffle forward. One juggles nervously. Another hums a half-remembered anthem. The sound is thin.
Lady Gaga:
That’s the problem.
You don’t want art.
You want anesthesia.
You want them to dance
so you don’t hear the cracks in the walls.
Trump:
Fake cracks. Total hoax.
The walls are beautiful.
Gold walls.
Everyone’s happy—look at them!
Christus Rex:
You mistake motion for devotion.
A spinning clown is not a loyal subject—
only a dizzy one.
Trump (leaning in):
Careful, carpenter.
Empires don’t like critics.
They like entertainment.
Lady Gaga:
And entertainers don’t like being owned.
They like being believed.
Big difference.
Trump:
If they don’t sing,
I’ll find louder ones.
There’s always another circus.
Christus Rex:
Yes.
But every empire learns the same lesson:
when the clowns stop laughing,
the joke is over.
Silence falls.
One by one, the Entertainers lower their props.
No music.
No dance.
Just the echo of an empty stage
and an emperor shouting at a crowd
that has stopped applauding.







