A Louse Is Not A Home
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Act Three by Hammill Peter
(immediately afterwards madeline usher enters in a trance)
Madeline carriages at seven
i shall wear the flower he gave me
it's so cold here
deep beneath the lapping water...
the water
the water
my love
head against his shoulder
'cross the lawn i hear the music...
silent blackness
in the lake i'm sinking slowly...
oh how lovely
nothing could be more becoming...
underwater
floating in the icy darkness...
count the candles
'may i dance with you this evening?'...
on the surface
swans are feeding high above me...
hold him tightly
round and round the floor we're spinning
breathing water
i am drowning
watch the sun rise
driving home across the meadows...
all is darkness
i can feel myself dissolving
the water
the water
the darkness
the darkness
my love
head against his shoulder
floating in the icy darkness
hold him tightly
i can feel myself dissolving
oh how lovely
deep beneath the lapping water
count the candles
i am drowning i am drowning
count the candles
floating in the icy darkness
hold him tightly
i can feel myself dissolving
oh how lovely
deep beneath the lapping water
count the candles
i am drowning
oh how lovely
i am drowning i am drowning
oh how lovely
oh how lovely
oh how lovely
Montresor stop madeline look at me!
my god man what is wrong with her?
Usher yes it's right you should know
she is dying!
i have not dared to speak of it.
a chronic catalepsy had drained her of her youth.
i have watched her waste away and could do nothing!
a period of health is followed by sudden coma
death-like sleep.
it can last a full day or more
no movement no colour no flame in the cheeks.
Montresor what then of these dreaming visions?
Usher the recovery ah this is even worse!
she rises and moves about the house
but her mind still sleeps...
you see her now a mindless ghost:
beautiful dead eyes stare in sleep unrecognising.
she speaks in dreams sees only dreams
she haunts the house in hideous sleepwalking
and may not be restrained for like some automaton
she tirelessly thrusts and tears herself
against her fetters
heedless of injury.
and so she walks and then she wakes
remembering nothing so week that she can
barely build up strength before she is struck down again.
month after month each attack worse than the last.
death will not wait long.
her final days are flickering past.
dear god
helpless
helpless!
Montresor but what is the word from her doctors?
do they hold out no hope nor offer any treatment?
Usher montresor chorus
They do not understand
Her case
And cannot treat a case
They do not understand
he does not understand
you're dealing with a case
who is her doctor
a specialist i trust?
Yes indeed one of
The foremost rank
you're dealing
with a case
then he will help her
Montresor oh yes
No more of this he surely must you do not understand
Now
No more talk he does not
Of cures please understand
Or of doctor.
I bless you concern
But know that she
Will walk no more tonight.
When she wakes soon
She will need my care.
I must be there so
Dear friend goodnight.
(usher exits with madeline leaving montresor alone. the herbalist enters)
The herbalist good evening sir.
and you must be the friend of mister usher.
i'm so pleased to meet you sir
but have little time to spare
for knowledge such as mine is wanted everywhere.
in poor dwellings yes but some as great as usher's.
my card...
Montresor 'j. ducrow esq. herbalist
doctor of natural medicine'...
Herbalist at you service and it could be sir
that you have need of my panaceas now...
i have mandrake juice that will slake any fever
cures to convince you though you be an unbeliever now...
laugh - would you? - at these seeds of mine.
you question the cure's causes
but logic and reason do not answer
and nature runs her courses.
i have purest poppy for the soundest of sleeps;
a pure cake of hemp plant
that's a warranted surcease of worldly sorrow.
lying words will be believed
if perfumed by this pastil
or my elixir's guaranteed
to bend the will of fairest womankind.
scheme would you for a worldly gain?
lust after a frigid virgin?
my herbs can grant your secret cravings
and my price is modest!
Montresor no! no!
Herbalist and my price is modest...
Montresor no thank you! no!
Herbalist oh it's very modest...
Montresor no no thank you!
no!
no thank you
no!
Herbalist perhaps a poultice of toadbane
for weakness of the manly parts
caused by too much wine or age
perhaps by over-frequent natural indulgence...
applied with skill it will
revive the fleshy passions of a corpse...
...of a corpse
Montresor i said no
i meant no!
Herbalist well then good-day...
Montresor so that is usher's idea of a doctor!
that wretched mountebank can't help them.
i confront madness face to face!
and whatever it's cause it lies within this place
i breathe an atmosphere of sorrow;
an alien despair makes my courage fail
like the collapse of an opium vision
the hideous dropping of the veil
Chorus tormented by a thousand doubts and fancies
he will not sleep tonight.
chilled by the gloom of his surroundings
mortal half-dead mortar.
Montresor chorus
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he will not sleep!
I see simple solutions
he will not sleep!
State them laud and clear
But the echoes of the house he will not sleep!
Shout 'unreason!'
The one thing that i fear.
the evil that is done
cannot be undone.
the evil that will come
cannot be prevented.
the evil that is done
Yet somehow i must help
These two tormented souls
cannot be undone.
For if i cannot who will?
the evil that will come
These are the friends
I've loved so dearly...
cannot be prevented
leave!
No! what a monstrous thought!
depart!
How could i even think of it!
go!
Abandon those who have need of me!
leave!
Oh but what a temptation
depart!
To run like a thief in the night
go!
And yet now i cannot
Because it is too late before it is too late
I feel myself bound up in before you are bound up in
The web of fear and pain the web of fear and pain
The evil that surrounds me. the evil that surrounds you.
it cannot be undone.
it cannot be undone.
the evil that will come
cannot be prevented.
end of act three
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