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The Wolf Demos

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1.
Act 1 15:38
ACT 1 SCENE 1 A small frontier village. NARRATOR There was a town There was a pilgrim pasture The quiet town Had never seen disaster They went to work They went to town hall meetings They went to church They exchanged smiles; and waves; and pleasant greetings But in the night There is an evil presence 'round That comes and bites They come to kill the peasant town There was a witch She lived upon a moonlit hill An alchemist, she could heal and she could kill She was alone, but for a single lover a gentle soul who hides a secret hunger One night at the butcher's The night the leaves were turning red There was a feast a family dreaming in their beds ACT 1 SCENE 2 (Max MSP triggered silent film) Sheriff's office, the sheriff napping with his boots on his desk SHERIFF I woke up to earnest screams TOWN CRIER (bursting in) “Sheriff the Butcher's were all slaughtered in their dreams!” SHERIFF (awoken) I grabbed my badge and colt revolver and said, “Son, would you lead me to the slaughter” Montage of Sheriff and Townsperson running. They arrive at the butchers house and enter into a dark room. It was the bloodiest scene that I'd ever seen A family of skeletons lay on the crimson sheets The copper air made it hard to breath I turned and I made for the door in hopes of some relief Sheriff exits to the street outside of the butchers house It seems the whole town they had gathered outside and they cried ENSEMBLE “Sheriff!” SHERIFF “Yes?” ENSEMBLE “SHERIFF!” SHERIFF “YES?!” ENSEMBLE “Are the rumours lies? Or were they eaten alive!” SHERIFF “Now everybody please calm down” ENSEMBLE “Calm down when there are monsters eating our neighbours at night?” SHERIFF “Now, we've never had any of those folks around” ENSEMBLE “We've heard of evils that stalk around town in the night” TOWNSPERSON “I've heard of dogs of doom who hunt for humans under the moon but in the daylight, they walk in plain sight and I can tell you there are some folk who'd I'd like to see locked in a tomb” SHERIFF “Now who are these creeps of whom you're unsure?” TOWNSPERSON “Well there is that recluse upon the hill” LAWRENCE “That's a very dangerous pot to stir you're awfully quick to place the mark on who we should kill” (The bookkeeper proceeds to recount himself witnessing the suspicious activities of said townsperson the night before. The crowd begins to chant “Kill!” and the bookkeeper accuses the townsperson of killing the Butcher's) ENSEMBLE Lynch him Save your skin Lynch him Save your skin SHERIFF So we took him to the gallows There in the valley of Miller's Hollow We sent that evil man to hell and hoped our suspicions served us well but who can tell ACT 1 SCENE 3 The house on the hill. NARRATOR Lawrence the bookkeeper galloped the ascending road to the witches abode said, LAWRENCE “Baby can you open the door, I'm not sure if we are safe anymore” NARRATOR He'd kept his secret too long It corroded him like an ulcer and sped his pulse for hours and hours and hours Those lies devour Gretchen the witch was concerned she could feel that Lawrence was troubled so as the cuddled she says, GRETCHEN “Baby, what's bringing you down? Why the frown? What happened today in the town?” LAWRENCE “Gretchen understand, that an innocent man was hung today and I had a large hand in taking that man's life away but I didn't have a choice his voice would have endangered you what could I do? I endangered you too But if they took their pitchforks and torches and climbed this hill to rip you apart I would match their violent horrors Cause without you what good is my heart I have no heart, I have no heart, you know you're my heart” GRETCHEN “Lawrence! What the fuck! An incomprehensible story Why come for me? What do they think that I did? I'm not a kid, I think I can handle the truth” NARRATOR The truth burned through his mouth He knew it was him they had wanted but she would be hunted with no one else better to blame if this happened again LAWRENCE “Gretchen I'll come clean I'm not a simple bookkeeper I am the creeper, who murders the town in their sleep I play the sheep but the moon brings a wolf out to eat” NARRATOR Gretchen looked into his eyes the love inside of them remained together they were ostracized and in their difference they felt the same she says, GRETCHEN “Babe, can't you see that this place is not for you and I and if we remain here than sooner or later we die so pack up the wagon, lets take off for some place that's new live on the road with no one else but me and you Cause if they took their pitchforks and torches that would be the end of our lives but I would exhaust all of my resources for one more day just to gaze in your eyes I don't want to die, I don't want you to die, why should we have to die?” NARRATOR And inside Lawrence wished that he could but he knew if he did there would be no explaining if only she had understood him being with her was already betraying the laws of his fellow wolf pack the fate of the two would be equally gruesome he could feel their weight on his back and knew that eventually he'd be forced to do something to end their threat and free him from their net than they could love like you're supposed to love and not have to be distraught so he turned to her back and he thought, LAWRENCE “If we take their pitchforks and torches and set the whole town upon themselves there would be no one left to harm us our love could ring out as loud as the bells They'll murder themselves Our love rings like bells There'll be no one else but us”
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Act 2 16:15
ACT 2 SCENE 1 Snowy village NARRATOR Winter's gown it has slipped down around the town a chill set in perhaps the wind has heard the silent screams of frightened beings the town won't sleep they fear their dreams they fear their neighbour's eyes eighteen necks squeezed and with the leaves no longer breath the trees in town are bare yet evil holds its lair ACT 2 SCENE 2 (dance) A small cabin in the town, where the little girl rocks back and forth holding her knees LITTLE GIRL these days in my town you can't go and play in the snow the forest is dangerous, chock-full of murder you know so i spend my childhood locked in the cabin; my home it is the only place safe from where the wolves roam, that we own the adults are crazy with fear and they meet once a day to round up the ones they deem dangerous and take them away despite all their efforts the fear atmosphere seems to stay and one day my parents they didn't come home i'm afraid oh christ i'm afraid so i broke a window and made my way out to the road walked past the streetlamps and storefronts with trinkets of gold walked through the valley and into the forest of old seeking the safety and comfort of grandfather's home i walk through the cold ACT 2 SCENE 3 (Max MSP visualisations) Forest at night NARRATOR the frightened child stumbling in the wild forest is lost, she can't seem to find her way through the light of flame flickering from a cave a beckoning beacon it's pulling her closer to... *howls she crept so slow lying there in the snow quiet, her eye is alight by the fire inside her gaze revealed what caves only once concealed the chant and the dance of four men dressed in wolven hide *howls froze with hear fixed like a startled deer terrible terror ensnared her to where she lay with every word of secrets she overheard loosened her will to creep backwards and run away (set reconstruction) Little girl running run run run run run run run run run ACT 2 SCENE 4 (Dramatic actualization) Cabin in the woods THE HUNTER My dear granddaughter; what brings you to my door? Come in from the winter, let the fire warm your core Why are you alone? You still haven't uttered a word Your wide eyes tell me horrible things have occurred NARRATOR She stuttered through her rattled jaw as clear as it allowed Recounting all the terrors that the forest had endowed She cried for her parents. She cried at the thought of the woods and, seeing her fear, her grandfather understood He knew of the evil that had stalked the souls in town He knew of the fear that had fertilized the ground and let darkness bergen its way into every man Consuming all traces of innocent life that it can THE HUNTER Rest my child, don't let darkness take your mind We're safe in the woods here where no ones going to find Speak not a word dear forget all the horrors you've seen Mourning will transform these memories into a dream ACT 2 SCENE 5 (Dramatic actualization and projection) Outside the cave NARRATOR We now travel over the forest footsteps backwards and at breakneck speed The glow of the fire subsides neath the damp sweaty cave, the perspiration cooling on its walls coagulating as it trickles into the blood mucky earth below the rocky arcade femurs and phalanges scattered and gnawed in last glisten of the coals expiring four men dressed in their human hide breath the melting frost that suspends itself in the air outside where they speak shortly then, turning away from each other, duck under the low limbs into the darkness snapping twigs and rustled detritus slowly fading into dark silence two lovers embrace on a moonlit hill the wind shrouds the sound of their moving lips
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Act 3 08:18
ACT 3 SCENE 1 (DramaticActualization) The village NARRATOR The witch went into town Walked the streets until she found the sheriffs door GRETCHEN “May I come in, sir, from the winter?” “I know why you're wary of me the mystic paranormal makes the town so frightened but I can see those things you can't see I know who you search for and I know where they're hiding” SHERIFF “Tell me right now, is there truth to what you're saying More then half the town's dead and the other half is waiting for the slaying Tell me right now, is there truth to what you're saying I can't find the the truth for them, and they need some explaining” GRETCHEN “I swear to you my dear there will be nothing more to fear just follow me to the den unhitch your horses alight you torches Follow me now to where the murderous ones are staying To take back the town from the one's you fear is not morally betraying When they wanted blood it was you who did the paying Now its their neck neath the blade and you can do the draining” ACT 3 SCENE 2 (Max MSP visualization) The mob travels around the village ENSEMBLE Somewhere on the west side of town The first wolf is laying down Mister Wolf, Mister Wolf, you around? We have come to blow your door down Somewhere on the East Side of town The second wolf he is sound, asleep Mister wolf. Mister wolf. We will pound Down your door, on to the floor before we throw you in the ground In a house down the block, somewhere south of where the town still stands the fourth sneaky wolf, who is waiting on the porch, demands to the mob, “Go away! I am not the wolf, do you understand?!” “Dirty wolf! On your knees. It is us who place the judging hand” You die! ACT 3 SCENE 3 (Mac MSP visualizations) The gallows ENSEMBLE Lynch them Take their skin Lynch them Take their shin quarter their remains drain and dry their veins burn their meat to ash grind their bones to mash scatter to the wind cleanse your soul of sin tire to your beds lay your fear to rest
4.
Act 4 13:36
ACT 4 SCENE 1 Gretchen and Lawrence pack their bags, knowing they can proceed safely now that the other wolves cannot avenge Lawrence's betrayal. Their wagon ready they take off into the snowy night. The snow becomes treacherous (as gretchen gazes left right left right a projection of her POV is displayed behind her, possibly controlled by MSP and a headset) and the two are forced to turn back. Meanwhile, the cabin in the forest is crippling under the storms power. It breaks and, after trying to rebuild it in the storm,the Hunter and the Little Girl are forced to return to the town in search of shelter Back in the town, the Lovers make it back to the house on the hill. They enter, and shortly after Lawrence emerges and takes off towards the town in search of flesh. Feasting Montage. ACT 4 SCENE 2 NARRATOR Enter the town It's a pile of husks that once held lives A short time ago when life was once ordinary The house on the mound Is a alight with a candle once again Shivers in the wind as they wait in purgatory The doors that still stand in the town that are locked around the clock all are paralyzed with terror and moratory But one that remains in the town that is open, holds a man holds a gun, holds a bullet, holds a point that holds its post SHERRIFF I have been stuck in winter for too long The snow, it has made so there's no where I can go My mind has been tangled like a thread My head can't get it figured out. it's liked I'm dead already cause there's not a dozen left inside the town we haven't killed and still the farmer with his sickle wanting something comes around and reaps its fill NARRATOR Enter the town where they once had a family comes the hunter with the little girl in from the blizzard as they break down the door and go inside of the house they left behind comes the feeling that they're back in the prison of the town THE HUNTER I have been hiding too long from what I fear I've steered, as clear as I could and it lead me here My granddaughter is ravaged by it too and soon, if the wolf don't get her fear it will consume her soul until theres not a trace of life inside her eyes so come, my sweetheart we must tell the sheriff where the evil lies ENSEMBLE and where evil lies Lawrence watches Gretchen slumber itching as if flies burrowed underneath his skin feels the hunger rise the thought of it just makes him shudder losing his disguise feels the monster giving in ACT 4 SCENE 3 LAWRENCE You know I want to eat you Thats just the way I feel It's a chore to control it what comes naturally is that not who I should be? Release me It is haunting me all the time These days not even love can numb the pain It's as if I am intertwined Inextricably To something I don't want to be Release me And I try to contain the inferno that lies inside but how can I expect to restrain An instinct I know that I must abide Release me It the hunger thats keeping me here as much as the blizzard outside The thought of leaving this place brings me fear For I need human souls to survive Cause with out them I would physically change into an unrecognizable hide their would be no reverse to this curse of mine ACT 4 SCENE 4 SHERIFF Awake and another bloody sunrise swaddles the town smothering breath delivering death to the grocer, who had seen the night before accusing the witch he thought it was her but I wasn't sure now he's dead and now its stuck inside my head could I have been wrong? Was it her all along? Leading me on not a chance, cause shes the only one I trust of the four or five of us left alive i owe her my life i owe her my life i'd give her my life
5.
Act 5 11:30
ACT 5 SCENE 1 HUNTER In the morning I took a gander outside and seeing nothing I then proceeded with my gun My granddaughter followed closely by my side And our ears, they listened for pierce in the silence finding none, we chose to run to the sheriff's office with the desperate promise he was there and he was there we've travelled all this way to escape our graves now you must share my little fair your secret name LITTLE GIRL I have a secret you'd like to hear Lean close to me and lend me your ear Listen intently to what I say For what I tell you makes me afraid Making it hard to slip off the tongue Some For many macabre moons you've minded a malevolent mystery bequeathing brutal gibbets has been your blunder benevolent bursary redeem your righteousness rearrange your abhorrence the parasite in our midsts name is Lawrence SHERIFF Ring the church bell summon the town to the square Let it chime let it sing justice rings through the air ACT 5 SCENE 2 SHERIFF Is this really all that's left of us living in the town before my eyes? I see five One of you among us is the thief who's stealing lives and they must die Lawrence it appears your are accused of being guilty LAWRENCE Really? There must be some mistake for I am clean and not some filthy HUNTER Liar! You've conspired and now you'll taste our righteous fire! GRETCHEN Wait for just a minute have we not spilled enough Blood in our search for who we can trust LAWRENCE And what justification brings my neck to the noose it seems these allegations are a trifle obtuse HUNTER Silence you fiend for the flesh of the innocent Oh the obscenity of your crimes is salient My granddaughter she has seen through your mask I cannot wait to hammer nails in your casket LAWRENCE Who? This girl who stands by your side Is she not the child of parents who were tried and found guilty of murder can't you see, she is the missing link in a murderous family HUNTER Quiet you dog, I think I've heard enough Lets see how this bullet will hold up agsinst your bluff Hunter shoots Lawrence Sheriff shoots Hunter ACT 5 SCENE 3 The two bodies lay dead. The Sheriff, Gretchen and the Little Girl gaze in shock at the two dead. Gretchen falls into the Sheriffs arms. GRETCHEN (to the Sheriff) Is this the end? Has evil left? How can we tell If we can rest? Tell me, how can we be sure the disease has been removed Look at me Sheriff, you know what you must do. Sheriff turns to the girl with a horrified look on his face. Gretchen Kisses the Sheriff. Sheriff turns to the Little Girl. Pulls out his gun. Shoots. Drops Gun. Drops to his knees, staring at the lifeless child. Gretchen backs away. Gretchen turns to Lawrence's lifeless body Begins Resurrecting him. Sheriff turns to see Gretchen, and stands in horror Sheriff begins to back away realizing what he has done. Eyes no longer fixed on Gretchen turn to the audience. Expression grows on face, absolute despair collapsing slowly until he his face down dead on the floor Lawrence's eyes open into Gretchen's They kiss passionately. All the dead rise, becoming ghosts. Ensemble of ghosts joins. Gretchen and Lawrence spin ending in an embrace with Gretchen's back to the audience. Over her Shoulder LAWRENCE In the setting sun At last the wolf has won And love escapes the trawl but still my stomach growls fade to black FIN

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released November 19, 2011

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