I'm honestly a little surprised this is the first time you had a crash running Linux under Wine. How much memory do you have reserved for Linux in that setup? For some reason, it appears to be running out of memory. There is nothing at that point after the animation that is any larger in size than anything else. My renpy games are very simple: script lines, images, and animations. No special or crazy python commands... certainly nothing that should cause a "MemoryError". I also have a linux vm running under Wine and use it to test builds every release. I just tried playing through that part of the game and mine had no issues.
Are you running Wine under Windows? (I assume so). At the bottom of the traceback, it tells us that renpy is detecting Windows 8. Have you tried running the game from Windows instead just to see if you get passed that point?