tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007481659311412382023-11-15T10:04:37.910-08:00Wuthering Heights, The Entertainmentdphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342945846198271781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-600748165931141238.post-76292369688746964322012-02-04T06:55:00.000-08:002012-02-04T06:57:07.270-08:00YouTube video: Rehearsal at home<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5PtdpEsydBk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>dphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342945846198271781noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-600748165931141238.post-90055826575441133012012-02-04T06:47:00.000-08:002012-02-05T12:01:46.027-08:00The scriptWuthering Heights, The Entertainment<br />an original song cycle by Diana Prechter and husband Kent Cole.<br />Austin, Texas 2012<br /><br /><br />(1) (Rap Song - introduction to main characters…)<br /><br />Catherine married Edgar and their baby makes 3.<br />Catherine's brother is the jerk known as Hiindley.<br />Heathcliff is named after some dead child<br />by Catherine's father who rescued him before he became wild.<br /><br />Hindley goes away but comes back when he inherits.<br />He's a man of bad temper and very few merits.<br />He marries a woman who has TB, they have a kid, his name is Hareton, His mom he'll never see.<br /><br />Hindley now bitter rules the house with a heavy hand,<br />and Heathcliff is sent to work on the land.<br />Catherine is groomed for a monied marriage - to Edgar's house she goes in the family carriage.<br /><br />There's something wrong with Catherine, she's paler than most.<br />Walking around - she already looks like a ghost!<br /><br />Edgar's sister is the girl called Isabella. <br />When it's time to fall in love she's aware of one fellow.<br />Isabella may be pretty, she may even have a dimple,<br />but her understanding of character is really quite simple.<br /><br />She elopes with Heathcliff, after one night she regrets.<br />As fate would have it, a child she begets.<br />Linton is born near London town, <br />His mom is sick, his health is bad, his dad is rarely around.<br /><br />When his mom dies, it's really sad. but he's a bit of a jerk and now he lives with his dad.<br /><br />Not enough so far of Cathy we've said.<br />She's the baby who's born the night Catherine gets dead.<br />Her dad is Edgar and he's still alive. <br />She's a feisty girl, hell bent to survive.<br /><br />When it's time to fall in love, two cousins are around. Hareton or Linton? Her judgement is not sound.<br /><br />She marries Linton, it cannot be repealed.<br />When daddy Edgar dies, her fate is sealed.<br />Now the daughter-in-law of Heathcliff, true!<br />She has the temper of Catherine, whom Heathcliff loved and knew.<br /><br />The death of Linton widows her, and the estate from her dad to Heathcliff transfers.<br />Mistress of Nothing! Young Cathy hell-bent, is slow to pick up on where Hareton went.<br /><br />He's been waiting in the wings, his story barely started.<br />But soon the two cannot be parted.<br />When Heathcliff finally dies, young Cathy inherits. Hareton turns out to have a few good merits.<br /><br />It's the happy ending for which we've waited - the only love which the stars of the heath have fated.<br /><br />(SPOKEN:) Emily Bronte delved into the deep, at 28 years old,<br />to ask "What is love? And how does it live within the soul?"<br /><br />(2) (Two Rocks for Every Dirt)<br /><br />Put on your dress and don your cape <br />as we go on a journey to an ancient landscape <br />Your pants smell of horses, your jacket of soot. <br />Where there is no road, you will go on foot. <br /><br />CHORUS<br />Beautiful, bleak<br />hills blown by the sea, <br />the brambles catch a skirt. <br />Wide vistas, little heat, <br />and there below your feet are<br />two rocks… for every dirt. <br /><br />Unprotected and weather-worn, <br />beyond the hill you'll hear a hunting horn. <br />Hamlets and villages made of stone. <br />An old house in ruins was once a home. <br /><br />CHORUS<br />Beautiful, bleak<br />hills blown by the sea, <br />the brambles catch a skirt. <br />Wide vistas, little heat, <br />and there below your feet are<br />two rocks… for every dirt.<br /><br />In this time, in this place there is a destiny <br />For two souls growing crooked as a twisted tree. <br /><br />The erotic life force propels the soul through love toward death.<br /><br />We turn our thoughts to the heathen, sensual, Catherine and Heathcliff!<br /><br /> (3) (The Neighbors Asked)<br />The neighbors asked "but what did he bring?" <br />"where did he come from, the little brown thing?" <br />it was Heathcliff, age 7, rescued from the street <br />and his new family began to feel his heat.<br /><br />Catherine age 6 is where this story begins, <br />she took to Heathcliff - like an evil twin.<br />with the innocence of youth before one ever knows <br />they romped on the heath choked full of primrose.<br /><br />Two children grow tangled in their sensuality.<br />An older brother mangled by his jealousy. <br />A kind father dies on a forlorn night<br />to leave these three - undone - looking for a fight. <br /><br />The weather broke, sleet and snow,<br />the larks were silent, winds blowing cold -<br />LIGHT AND SHADOW<br />This is what happens when people are not whole. <br />They find something, outside, to complete them - LIGHT AND SHADOW<br /><br />Without mother, without friend<br />two broken hearts began to mend<br />Extended adagio…<br />They take center stage as they slowly become one<br />LIGHT AND SHADOW.............<br />oooo…LIGHT AND SHADOW<br />oooo…LIGHT AND SHADOW<br />oooo…<br /><br /> (4) (Savages)<br /><br />(H) Owe! She's pinched me on the cheek, says I.<br />(Cath) I love to look him in the eye.<br />(H) There's often something wild about her mane.<br /><br />(Cath) I've spoiled you, yes it's true, says I.<br />(H) I know you love me if I can make you cry.<br />(Cath) You're not as brave as me to play this game.<br /><br />CHORUS<br />Demon child? Or simply wild?<br />No mommy to wipe our face.<br />In heath and bramble we love to gambol.<br />Our passions turn to ravages… Let's grow up savages!<br /><br />(H) That's rude the way that you behave.<br />(Cath) When I grow up, you'll be my slave.<br />(H) A king and nothing less to you I'll be.<br /><br />(Cath) When I come near, your limbs grow slack.<br />(H) Come closer dear, I'll brush your back.<br />(Cath) I'll churn you like a tempest on the sea!<br /><br />CHORUS<br />Demon child? Or simply wild?<br />No mommy to wipe our face.<br />In heath and bramble we love to gambol.<br />Our passions turn to ravages… Let's grow up savages!<br /><br />Soon Hindley is master of Wuthering Heights<br />With a heart as black as anthracite<br />Most wayward, spiteful, violent of them all.<br /><br />He tastes revenge with every blow.<br />Heathcliff proud, brought so low,<br />and Catherine's temper merely folderol.<br /><br />CHORUS<br />Demon man, a schemin' man,<br />Catherine's brother will set the pace<br />as Chief Hater and Perpetrator,<br />A snake about to spring… <br />He's the Savage King!<br /><br />In another house, more genteel<br />lived a brother and sister with much less zeal,<br />unaware of their ill-fated star.<br /><br />Edgar and Isabella.<br /><br />With parents dead, left on their own<br />to choose a spouse and make a home,<br />they didn't know that they were playing with fire.<br /><br />CHORUS<br />Two quiet kids played quietly<br />Til their quiet life was history.<br />The ship of life was cast adrift<br />when he married Catherine, and she Heathcliff.<br /><br />H - OW!<br />C - (taunts) Just bring it here and I'll show you what to do..<br />E- Don't you think it just some sort of misunder…<br /><br />Frost and Fire!<br /> (5) "Heathcliff's lament"<br /><br />You played me as your pet,<br />some bird you'd teach to sing.<br />I grew up to expect<br />you'd give me everything.<br /><br />I'm so hungry<br />enough to cry<br />So hungry for your love babe,<br />there is lightening in the sky -- I'm gonna run away!<br />.......................<br />I wake up every morning, feel the darkness and shame,<br />I look for my next victim, someone to share my pain.<br />I'm just a man darling, and you've put me to the test:<br />How to take this heavy weight -- off my chest!<br /><br />I could keep on walking till I've walked around the world,<br />but the truth keeps walkin' beside me, says "you're my only girl."<br />I'm so hungry, stay up and howl at night.<br />So hungry for your love and I dream I hold you tight.<br />..............<br /><br />Don't dont' don't - runaway.<br />Don't don't don't.<br />Don't don't don't - runaway. Listen what I say!<br /><br />Don't don't don't - [overlaps with…] (H) I dream I hold you tight.<br />Don't don't don't - [overlaps with…] (H) I dream I hold you tight.<br />Don't don't don't - [overlaps with…] (H) I dream I hold you tight.<br /><br /> (6) "Catherine's Lament"<br /><br />When I held the key to Edgar's heart<br />I knew that money could play its part<br />to lift both you and me from poverty.<br />But the schemes of my foolish heart were only brief!<br /><br />CHORUS <br />The sun did warm us when you stood by my side<br />You chose to run away when the only thing I hurt was your pride.<br /><br />Well I cried my tears - a long time ago<br />I married Edgar - just didn't know.<br />But how's a wife supposed to live<br /> when her love is untrue?<br /> Secret thoughts, like roots entwined with you?<br /><br />CHORUS <br />The sun did warm us when you stood by my side<br />You chose to run away when the only thing I hurt was your pride.<br /><br />Time torn in pieces now! 3 years later you returned.<br />But life got complicated - when you married a girl you only hated.<br /><br />Time torn in pieces now! Visions of madness in my head.<br />With a husband devout, I'd rather die than live without -<br /><br />My SOUL, My SOUL! <br />Hold my hand you'll see it's growing cold! <br /><br />CHORUS <br />The sun did warm us when you stood by my side<br />You chose to run away when the only thing I hurt was your pride.<br /> (7) "In which Catherine Dies"<br /><br />Heathcliff loved Catherine, she was more than a friend<br />but Catherine called the shots said this love was a dead end.<br />Catherine. Catherine. It's more than half a sin to love Catherine.<br /><br />She married for comfort. She married for grace<br />While Heathcliff roamed the world acting like he owned the place.<br />Catherine. Catherine. It's more than half a sin to love Catherine.<br /><br />When he couldn't stand to be apart any more, he showed back up at her brother's front door.<br />That brother gambled, drank and nearly went mad until Heathcliff owned everything he had.<br /><br />Now more than a neighbor, less than a friend,<br />Heathcliff made his march across the heath to see the end of<br />Catherine. Catherine. It's more than half a sin to love Catherine.<br /><br />His love. His girl. The only woman he ever loved in the whole wide world,<br />and she took to her grave the love she kept from him.<br /><br />Each heart - forsaken... <br /> A fruitless love he bore - he'd settle the score;<br /> his love devout - she just held out;<br /> Never a day - would she betray;<br /> with life and limb - she longed for him;<br /><br /> he could have had her - but she's just a cadaver;<br /> the end of a life - of a love-sick wife!<br />the sad untimely death of Catherine! <br /> (8) (Lucifer)<br /><br />Without her - I took on the work of Lucifer.<br />I delight in the hatred that I incur!<br />I hate and love. Why do I do it you might ask? ….you see<br />I don't know - but I feel it happening to me.<br /><br />Without her - I took on the work of Lucifer.<br />Her daughter. My son. I keep them prisoner.<br />I hate and love. Why do I do it you might ask? ….you see<br />I don't know - but I feel it happening to me.<br /><br /><break> <br />There's a monster inside …. "I feel it happening" <br />I'm obsessed with her …. "I feel it happening" <br />I see them cower and hide …. "I feel it happening" <br />I've got a bad temper …. "I feel it happening" <br /><br />There's a monster inside! …. I feel it happening<br />There's a monster inside!! …. I feel it happening<br /><br />My anger only grows it devours me, it's never sated.<br />Let them feel what it's like to be tormented and berated!<br /><br />Some people cannot be rehabilitated.<br /><br />There's a monster inside… the monster she created!<br /><br /> [The Temper Tantrum - Heathcliff CRIES OUIT: ]<br />You think that my temper gets the best but you never met Catherine, the tempter and the tempest!<br /> (9) (The Haunting - spoken introduction)<br /><br />Could it be, when they were born,<br />one soul in two was exactly torn,<br />and placed in bodies, his and hers.<br />Now one is dead, but the other half stirs.<br /><br />Or is this what purest love resembles?<br />Not face or form or flowing tendrils, <br />But sadness, near madness, in the night<br />Where the ghost and the living seek to unite.<br /><br />Come ghost Catherine, tell us<br />What crime did you abet?<br />What Destiny was thwarted?<br />How weighs on you such debt?<br /><br /> (10) (The Haunting Duet ) <br /><br />Again I feel that chill - the hour of my torment <br />But once again I hear her weep - her wild impassioned midnight argument.<br /><br />Sheets writhing in this bed - possessed by my desire <br />Unfinished business with the dead - I inhale her soul but it's me that she devours.<br /> every breath I take - only keeps us apart <br /> I'm sure to slowly die - from my broken heart. <br />A noise - a shadow of hope - another electric hour <br />I'm standing in the cold - my tears will damn you, eyes full of black fire! <br /><br />(Catherine the GHOST sings:)<br />Whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same.<br />the blackness in them knows how to betray.<br />my own tears have damned me, I'm only a slave<br />to the love I kept hidden 'til I went to my grave!<br /><br />In heaven you're miserable. - no master could you serve <br />Are you in heaven or is it hell? Break your heart with weeping, that's what you deserve! <br /> every breath I take - only keeps us apart <br /> I'm sure to slowly die - from my broken heart. <br />Turn me once. Turn me twice.<br />Turn me in your grave, won't it be nice?<br /><br />They call me half civilized.<br />When they put me in your grave, won't it be nice? <br /><br /> (11) THE END [SPOKEN over quiet music:]<br /><br />Heathcliff died finally and it was just in time<br />so that the few remaining survivors of his reign of terror<br />could begin their lives anew<br />pulling happiness like a root from the ground.<br /><br /><br />And the holy ground where she was buried was secretly made unholy.<br />His living accomplice opened the grave of Catherine, the beloved,<br />and laid Heathcliff's tormented body - meat, gristle and bones -<br />beside her.<br />The longing finally consummated.<br /><br />Death is so terrifying, so unfathomable, <br />that realizing you are not dead is a thrill. <br />So - Welcome to the living! <br />Grab your horse and ride through time: gallop past Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, take a train, a car, a plane. Safe landing in the present. <br /><br />But in that place, <br />the wind still blows<br />and the air is chill.<br />A graveyard still sits<br />on that lonely hill.<br />In quiet earthy, unquietly<br />Two souls became the shape of one lonely tree.dphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342945846198271781noreply@blogger.com1