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
