setting

You all awaken in the velvety cushions on the front row in the audience of an opera.
Your arms have been strapped to the chairs with gilded cuffs that look fairly expensive.
On the stage several life-like puppets have been strung up. On one end of the stage they've been arranged to display the scene from Hamlet in which Claudius murders the old king by pouring poison in his ear while he sleeps. On the other it is the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.

Behind you on the other rows there are several corpses in various stages of decay strapped to the seats just like you.
The exits have all been barred and the theater itself looks fairly old and dusty. Although most of it seems to be whole.