ACT ONE

SCENE 1: IN A SMALL APARTMENT - LOVE SHOOK MY HEART

EURYDICE: How goes the new song, my love?

ORPHEA: The lyre is such a temperamental lady. Oh, I love her, but she eats batteries for breakfast and it might be time to replace some parts...

ORPHEA: Did I tell you I've been working on a new song, about you.

EURYDICE: Oh really, do say more.

ORPHEA: It is a love song, going on the next album, so far I only have the vocal line.

ORPHEA:
Love shook my heart
Like the Wind on the mountain
Troubling the Oak Trees

Your breath was the sea
The sky overhead, 
And in me,
In my veins, the stars.

We are equal with the gods, 
I, who sit across from you, 
Face to face, close enough to sip
Your voice, the sweetness

And yet what excites my mind
Your laughter glittering. So,
when I see you, for a moment, 
my voice goes
my tongue freezes

Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
You burn me.
You burn me.
You burn me.
You burn me.

ORPHEA and EURYDICE:
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh. 
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
You burn me.

SCENE 2: IN A SMALL APARTMENT - AN INVITATION

ORPHEA:
An invitation! Love abounds! 
The wedding of the season and who do they want to perform? 
Me! 
It fits perfectly with touring; I'll be home that weekend and we can go together! 
They heard the new recording of "Love shook my heart" and requested it. It is perfect for a wedding! 

ORPHEA: Eury! Eury, sit a second! The house looks beautiful. 

ORPHEA:
Oh, I wonder what I should wear? 
I can't upstage the bride, but that one white dress is so stunning, that would be best and my hair, maybe up and back, or is that too severe for a wedding? 
I'll have see what their theme is, maybe flowers in my hair, floral? The song is florid "love shook my heart"
hmm I could do a version that is even more intricate. 

Oh stop! Am I too rough?
You are such a scaredy cat. 
Just hold still for a second so that I can grab this melody. 

SCENE 3: IN A SMALL APARTMENT - LOVE SHOOK RETURN

ORPHEA: 
Love, love, love, 
love, love, love,
love,

You burn me, 
I watch you,
I want you, 
to be only mine

Love shook my heart
Like the Wind on the mountain
Troubling the Oak Trees

Your breath was the sea
The sky overhead, 
And in me,
In my veins, the stars.

We are equal with the gods, 
I, who sit across from you, 
Face to face, close enough to sip
Your voice, the sweetness

And, yes what excites my mind,
Your laughter glittering. So, 
When I see you, for a moment,
My voice goes, 
My tongue freezes.
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Blind, stunned, the sound of 
Thunder, my ears.

ORPHEA and EURYDICE: 
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
You burn me, 
You burn me,

Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
You burn me

You Burn me 
I watch you 
I want you 
I want you to be mine
You Burn me
I watch you
I want you
I want you to be only mine, love

SCENE 4: IN APARTMENT - SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO LOVE SHOOK INDUSTRIAL

ORPHEA: 
Love shook my heart
Like the Wind on the mountain
Troubling the Oak Trees

Your breath was the sea
The sky overhead, 
And in me,
In my veins, the stars.

We are equal with the gods, 
I, who sit across from you, 
Face to face, close enough to sip
Your voice, the sweetness

And, yes what excites my mind,
Your laughter glittering. So, 
When I see you, for a moment,
My voice goes, 
My tongue freezes.

Fire, delicate fire, in the flesh.
Fire, Fire, Fire

ORPHEA:
And when you are gone there will be no memory
Of you and no regret. For you do not share
The Pierian roses, but unseen in the house of Hades 
You will stray, breathed out, among the ghostly dead.

SCENE 5: IN APARTMENT - WHAT DO YOU LOVE? 

EURYDICE: I don't see why you are so upset. We had a nice dinner with friends, for the first time in a long while.

ORPHEA: Friends?! I saw the way Serpio hugged you goodbye! He's always wanted you!

EURYDICE: You are always so jealous! 

EURYDICE: I, I, I am only yours, but these tethers are too tight! I feel my heart cloistered in my chest and withering. I am no longer my own.

ORPHEA: Of course, you are mine!

ORPHEA: You are only mine. These moments of jealousy only prove Once again Love, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, seizes me. Wondrous crawling thing!

EURYDICE: Love, love, love

ORPHEA: I need a walk! You are in a mood.

EURYDICE:
I am Like the mountain hyacinth, 
the purple flower That shepherds trample to the ground... 
I am Like the mountain hyacinth, 
the purple flower That shepherds trample to the ground... 
those I care for best, do me Most harm... 
those I care for best, do me Most harm... 

Some say horsemen, 
some say warriors, 
Some say a fleet of ships is the loveliest 
Vision in this dark world, but I say it’s 
What you love. 

What you love, what you love,
What do you love?

What do you love? 
Love, Love, Love,
Love, love, love 
What do you love?
What do you love? 

SCENE 6: IN A FIELD - BEAUTIFUL MOON 

EURYDICE:
The stars around the beautiful moon
The stars around the beautiful moon
Hiding my glittering
Whenever she shines full on earth
Silver

She shines, I hide, 
She shines, I hide my glittering

But you, most beautiful night,
in you I feel welcome
Sinking into the soil
in you I feel whole

The stars and moon are so far
untouchable in their glittering
In this damp earth, 
I feel life welling within me.

I feel life move through me
I am heard in these shadows
The moon nor stars give light to grow
Still in this night from this earth I unfurl

O most tender heart, how I have missed you
O Gaia, how I grow in your presence
To grow freely, unbound, untethered,
To glow with effervescence of the night.

EURYDICE and SERPIO: 
The stars and moon are so far
untouchable in their glittering
In this damp earth, 
I feel life welling in me.

I feel life move through me
I am not seen but heard in these shadows
The moon nor stars give light to grow
Still from this earth I unfurl

O most tender heart, how I have missed you
O Gaia, how I grow in your presence
To grow freely, unbound, untethered,
To glow with effervescence of the night.

EURYDICE:
Love, love, love, 
Love, love, love, 
love, 
O most tender heart, how I have missed you
To grow freely, unbound, untethered,
To glow, to shine

INTERMISSION

ACT TWO

SCENE 1A: TUNNEL OF TRANSFORMATION - EURYDICE 

EURYDICE:

I am heard
I unfurl
I feel
I am
I grow
I shine
unbound 
untethered
damp earth
tender heart

SCENE 1B: UNDERWORLD - SHIVERING WITH SWEAT COLD

EURYDICE:
Shivering with sweat, cold
Tremors over the skin
I am the color of dead grass, 
As I see the people in the boats
Coming to the isle
Fonder, they look at you
And at me

EURYDICE AND HADES:
Where do they go?
Where do I?

Shivering with sweat, cold
Tremors over the skin
I am the color of dead grass, 
As I see the people in the boats
Coming to the isle
Fonder, they look at you
And at me

Where do they go? 
Where do I?

EURYDICE:
As I might die in love 
Surely you know

SCENE 2: TRIPTYCH STAGE SETTING - ORPHEA CALLING

ORPHEA:
O Aphrodite, how could I not hurt the one I love best, 
the one I wanted to make my own?
Check this longing! Check this longing!
Aphrodite, you ask me, "Orphea, who wrongs you now?"
It is me, my own doing, oh Eurydice, it is me.
Why would you ever want me back?
Check this longing! Check this longing!
Aphrodite, you say:
If she runs now she’ll pursue later,
If she refuses gifts she’ll give them. 
If she loves not, now, she’ll soon 
Love against her will.’ 
But who would love me willingly? 
Check this longing! Check this longing!
Who would love me willingly? 
Eury, Eury! Could you ever love me willingly?)
Check this longing! Check this longing!
Come to me now, Eury! Eury!
free me from aching care,
All my heart longs to have You.
You are mine! You are mine
All my heart longs to have You.
Eurydice, Eurydice, 
I beg you! 
Come now!
Come to me here...

EURYDICE:
Nightingale, herald of spring
With a voice of longing
So many birds once
You have forsaken me
Forgotten me
You and my servant Eros

There is a sweet apple reddening high on the branch
High on the highest, the apple pickers forgot, 
But one they couldn’t reach
How ripe will it get
Before it falls.

Neither for me the honey
Nor the honeybees.
Those I care for best, do me most harm.

SCENE 3: HADES HOME/BEDROOM - I LIE ALONE

HADES:
The moon is down, 
the Pleiades,
Midnight, the hours flow on. 

The moon is down, 
the Pleiades, 
Midnight, the hours flow on. 

I lie, alone. 
I lie, alone. 

A pasture for horses blossomed with the flowers of spring.
And breezes flowed here like honey, 
you came to me here, 
I lie, alone, 
you came to me here, 
I lie alone. 

I lie, alone.
I lie alone. 
I lie alone. 

You, shivering with sweat, 
cold tremors over the skin 
turned the color of dead grass 
an inch from dying.

Love that loos'ner of limbs, 
bitter sweet and inescapable 
crawling thing seized me, 
seized me. 

I lie, alone, 
I lie alone. 
I lie, alone, 
I lie alone. 

Delicately taking nectar in golden cups 
the seeded fruit beside 
I watched you partake. 
Unknowing choice. 
I lie alone,
Yet I am not one who takes joy in wounding 
I lie, alone, 
Yet I am not one who takes joy in wounding 
I lie, alone. 

Nightingale, herald of spring with a voice of longing. 
Nightingale, herald of spring with a voice of longing. 
I lie alone, 
I lie alone, 
but you have forgotten me, 
I lie, alone,
I lie, alone, 
but you have forgotten me. 

I lie, alone, 
you will never forgive me 
I lie, alone, 
You will never forgive me 
I lie, alone,
I lie, alone. 
I lie, alone, 
I lie alone,

SCENE 4A: TRIPTYCH STAGE SETTING - ORPHEA CALLING PART 2

ORPHEA:
Come to me now, Eury! Eury!
Free me from aching care,
All my heart longs to have you.
All my heart believes you are mine.

Check this longing, check this longing!

Eury! Eury! I beg you! 
Eury! Eury! Come now!
Eury! Eury! Come to me here!

EURYDICE:
Neither for me the honey, nor the honey bees.
Neither for me the honey, nor the honey bees.
Oh, love, love, love.

ORPHEA and HADES:
She doesn't miss me.
She is not mine.

HADES:
O Persephone,
She runs to her spring flowers.
She runs to her sunlit mountains.
She runs to her honey bees.

EURYDICE:
Those I care for best do me most harm.
Those I care for best do me most harm.

HADES:
I have done you great harm.
Oh Persephone, how could I trap you here?
And Eurydice?
How can I allow her to return, under Orphea's watchful eye?

ORPHEA:
Would you? How could you love me willingly?
Eury! Eury!
How could you love me willingly?
Yet you are your own. You have always been...your own.

Check this longing, check this longing.

Oh, how can I bring you back?
Oh, how can I bring you back?
Love, love, love,

EURYDICE:
Nightingale, how I miss you!
Nightingale, herald of spring, how I miss you!
Nightingale, herald of spring, with a voice of longing.
Nightingale, herald of spring, with a voice of longing.
So many birds...

ORPHEA: You are your own.

EURYDICE: So many birds...

ORPHEA: You've always been your own.

EURYDICE: Love, love, love

SCENE 4B: TRIPTYCH STAGE SETTING - MOST BEAUTIFUL

HADES:
Oh, my Persephone 
how you were forced to stay 
in tricking you 
I lost your love. 
I cannot take back 
my deceitful self 
I was so lonely 
There was nothing I could do 
there was nothing I could say 
so lonely 
there was nothing I could do 
there was nothing I could say 
You stand by me, but you are always alone. 
I am always alone. 

EURYDICE:
Most beautiful of all the things that I have left: 
is the light of the sun, next gleaming stars, 
and the face of the moon. 
Then cucumbers in the summer 
and apples and pears. 
Then cucumbers in the summer 
and apples and pears. 

HADES:
Time just goes by and forgiveness is not an option.
Oh Eurydice in you I see my Persephone. 
Forced to this underworld missing the living.
And just like her I cannot bear to watch you grieve 
I cannot bear to watch you mourn for the light of the sun 
Watch you long for the moonlight and keep you here.
But how can I send you back? 
How can I commit you to a love that is killing you? 
A love that is killing you, there must be a way...

EURYDICE (duet):
Most beautiful of all the things that I have left: 
is the light of the sun, next gleaming stars, 
and the face of the moon. 
Then cucumbers in the summer 
and apples and pears. 
Then cucumbers in the summer 
and apples and pears. 

HADES (duet):
Most beautiful, I miss it too. 
The light of the sun, and the gleaming stars 
and the face of the moon. 
I long to stand on the other side. 
Persephone as my bride. 
Free on the living side. 
Free on the living side.  

EURYDICE, HADES, and ORPHEA: 

ALL:
Nightingale, herald of spring with a voice of longing. 
Nightingale, herald of spring with a voice of longing. 

ORPHEA:
how could I not hurt the one I love best, 
the one I wanted to make my own? 

ALL: to be one's own! 

EURYDICE: The stars around the beautiful moon

EURYDICE and HADES: The light of the sun, next gleaming stars, and face of the moon...

HADES:
Unless I relent, 
unless I allow, 
to break the rules, 
transform somehow,

to trust in change,
to love and live,
even here, in shadows,
to shift and forgive
to be willing 
to allow 
to be willing 
to allow
You may enter!

SCENE 5A: TUNNEL OF TRANSFORMATION - ORPHEA

ORPHEA:
Love shook my heart
Like the wind on the mountain 
troubling the oak trees
You burned me, I watched you, I wanted you to be only mine. 
You burned me, I watched you, I wanted you to be only mine.
Your breath was the sea, the sky overhead, 
and in me, in my veins the stars
You burned me, I watched you, watched you with him, when you were only mine.
You burned me, I watched you, watched you with him, when you were only mine.
We are equal with the gods,
You burned me, I watched you, I grabbed you, you were only mine,
You burned me, I watched you, I grabbed you, you were only mine, 
I who sit across from you, face to face,
your voice close enough to sip, the sweetness
You burned me, I shook you, I hurt you, you were only mine
You burned me, I shook you, I hurt you, you were only mine
close enough to sip your voice, the sweetness
You burned me, I hurt you, I killed you, you were only mine
You burned me, I hurt you, I killed you, you were only mine
the sweetness
only mine, only mine, only mine, only mine
only mine, only mine, only mine, only mine

EURYDICE: Orphea!

SCENE 5B: UNDERWORLD AND TUNNEL - REUNITING AND RETURN 

EURYDICE: Orphea! Orphea, I am here!

ORPHEA: Eurydice! I am so sorry!

EURYDICE and ORPHEA:
Love shook my heart, 
like the wind on the mountains troubling the oak trees
Your breath was the sea, the sky overhead and in me, 
In my veins the stars. 

EURYDICE:
The stars around the beautiful moon, 
How I miss the stars around the beautiful moon.

ORPHEA and EURYDICE:
We are, we are equal with the Gods,
I who sit across from you
Face to face, close enough to sip your voice, the sweetness
O, Most Tender Heart, how I have missed you! 

ORPHEA and EURYDICE: love, love, love

EURYDICE: Most beautiful! Most Beautiful of all, is the light of the sun! 

HADES: Orphea, you cannot make her your own, you cannot look back. Eurydice, you may return to your beautiful light. Orphea may lead you back, but there can be no backward glance, no controlling eye. Orphea you cannot linger here, you must go now, and if Eurydice chooses, she may follow.

ORPHEA:
I choose you, most beautiful, my light, my sun, 
with each step she chooses me, my light, my sun,, 
chooses me, my love,
but without you, there is no light, I am alone, abandoned, alone
cursed to always be alone, 

I want you to be mine! mine! mine! 
Where are your footsteps? 
Why aren't you walking? 
I don't hear you! I don't hear you! I don't hear you!

EURYDICE:
I choose you, most beautiful, my light, my gleaming stars, my face of the moon
I choose you, my apples and pears, my summer, 
I forgive you, my night, my darkness
I am not yours my love, I am my own,
but we could be, we could choose to be, to love and to honor unfurling life 

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