Nowhere A Dream Play By Tim Pickerill © Timothy R. Pickerill- All rights reserved     Cast: Nemo                           the groom Girt                                    the bride the priest         the wedding party           Phantom 1 Phantom 2 Production Elements:   Black curtain upstage, opens at the center Cold fog flows down (the width of) back curtain and onto the floor   Video projected onto fog Strobe behind upstage curtain (light = green)   2 shadow phantoms, enter through the fog pedestal stage center (down spot light = light blue 202)   Nemo seated stage right on a rock next to pedestal Prerecorded music, (hallucinatory), keyboard, Therimen and samples mixed live   Video follow spot from side Lights for wedding = white down spots, tight; red back Audience = yellow Nemo = green Girt = violet Phantoms = red wedding ceremony at beginning, wine and cake reception after   wedding party plays trick, attach strings to Nemo , lead audience in cursing Nemo and throwing rice at him Video Projection on bodies and fog wall upstage; hallucinatory dreamscapes, morphing figures and scenes.  Also morphing color video projected from sides onto bodies.               TV static             Video of Girt talking gibberish to Nemo             Nemo running on the street at night, frantic             Shadowing someone on the street Solarized (black) Body of Light (running from someone anyone)             Nemo stops at cliff Water (waves) Shadows of people (legs) walking by             Street at night, blurred, blobs of light             Disk of Fire Performance Outline and Text: The wedding part greets the arriving audience and distribute rice   Clownish ceremony Priest is officiating the wedding, standing on the rock   Lights = three down specials, trapezoid cut, no color, red back light Lights = yellow on audience, flicker periodically; noises, crackling, hissing, crashing, laughter, (all in the midst)   Nemo is already drunk, he wears a black vinyl suit and has a red face “Where is Nemo, “ the priest calls out, they search for him, he is found passed out or stumbling around drunk   Girt enters, the bride, she begins hitting him when he is carried in (the lout!) Nemo passes out at the alter and the ceremony is a failure; the Priest is distraught   Lights = green special on Nemo passed out on rock leaning on pedestal, with no/color special on face Girt cries horribly for a long time her light = violet and cold   Sound = static building into siren like howl Fog rolls down the back wall   Video of static fills the room projected on to back wall of white cascades The Phantoms step through the curtain and into the fog, they are dressed like Nemo only white bodies and clear vinyl suit, black eye   Girt gibber jabbering...      while pacing back and forth; Girt is telling Nemo about something that he can’t understand Video of Girt comes through the static partially   When the static stops and phantoms fall to ground Sound = psychedelic swirl and howl   Video follow spot color wash from the side Light = red side light for phantoms opposite of video follow spot   Phantoms, 2 male voices, syncopated, collage of the text, contorting bodies, step forward and fall to one knee,  one crouches behind Nemo mimicking his position, while the other curls up sitting on Nemo’ lap Videoof Nemo running away or stumbling from someone everyone   Text begins and phantoms move away from Nemo Lead phantom crouches on top of  pedestal, talking into Nemo’ ear while the other stands behind   Phantoms: I am lost no   I am... I am I am lost no one is lost   I know these bones are mine you can not take them no...  one...  is lost no   I am lost… no   I am at home I named this place lies   it is mine I will never be lost a seduction I have drowned… I must have drowned   no I am immersed,  I... am I not immersed? my foundation is secure   Illusion Illusion you can not take that away   I can not see… I can not see because I am blindI am blind because I am…   drunk whose eyes are these?   they are dark aren’t they dark? no   the light has gone out of them… no   is it not dark? these are not my eyes   (laughter) it is dark the moon has faded there is no mirror for you broken it lies beneath your feat lies   then what? whom other than yourself? lies lies I can not see with them   you don’t know how to see you confuse me   nonsense there is a vision…   illusion it is your vision… no…   yes… bring me back my eyes   you think their must be another? The Video stops at an isolated precipice overlooking the city   there is.. there is no one there is nothing we are dead The Video changes to water   Sound = mix in water sound fallen through clouds of rain fallen to a sodden earth my lips brake with a cry to shake the sky and my memory flows with tears through valley floor in mist concealing I search I call out in silence I have wandered off alone never to  submit to forget   I curse you and cast all away nothing left nowhere lost no comfort from?  not even the sky no skin   nor flesh neither sinew or living bone you I run from your embrace you strike me with lightning tongue and diamond flash I am split again I fall   Phantoms step back and crouch behind on either side   Water Video ends Sound ends   Girt paces about thinking then  steps over to wedding party and whispers in an ear, her plan Weading party takes bows of flowers off the wall and ties them to Nemo and give them to the audience, prompting them to pull the strings and shout their verbs, nouns, and expletives at Nemo and throw rice at them, after he is woken up   The crowd pulls their ropes and curse him on cue Nemo screams stands and pulls back some with a shriek of horror   Lead phantom  hits Nemo on the back knocking him to the ground Lights = green rectangle in front of rock and pedestal   The Phantoms shriek  and convulse The Phantoms speak again, all at once, mixing the voices, chatteringly   Video of fire building in intensity Sound = siren, moves into psychic swirls, & backwards cymbols   Video of shadows pacing in sped up motion Phantoms: crawling around Nemo circling like demons look into my eyes see the face of death know that I wait for you know that I long for you look what pretty meat (laughter) the wheel turns round silent bones hid underground   Phantoms: my blood my blood is made of bacterium my thoughts my thoughts viruses my skin my skin is mold my muscles my muscles lichen my brain my brain a mushroom my eyes my eyes my eyes spores my feelings my feelings are poison my tongue my tongue is slime my words my words destruction my bones my bones an ancient fallen tree Phantoms: flower of darkness from buried fields rise from your bog and shine with unseen light containing all being Video of color blobs and street blurs   Girt: with love embrace the world Lights = red stripe over Nemo   Girt begins to squirm uncomfortably, holds herself tightly Sound = heavy pulse drone, mixed with swirl   Girt: the night crawls beneath my sex my sex..  enveloped in the boiling sky my sex..  carried aloft the silvery incantations of sorcerers my sex..  thrown upon barbed fingers of clinging hope my sex.. wounds to be probed by tuberous snouts poisons extracted in time honored fashion tongues canceling the void between lips silence scattered between musings..  thighs..   Phantoms: have been pacing back and forth tell him tell me tell it   no tell him no tell him what, what, of time you want me to tell him of time ha  is that it? time time was, when I dropped my seed little birdie sang it would grow tall I would spit down on it tell the universe would be happy fruit would be brought down from heaven and my body would grow full with its dawning sweat would flow from my brow and that thought which was of mind would walk forth and gladly sing praise but then time became a not in my mind and I a slave and all had gone except, forgetfullness and being but a shadow of truth nothing was naught and done with   Video fire disk Phantoms: tell him no tell him the vision no no tell him you want a vision yes I bring you a vision of burning eyes and salt’n tongue of naked fingers clawing for the sun portal of insanity maze of death tinder fortress of my mind free my swelling lungs crackling heat burning cement under feat where the mud where the leaches and flowing blood where the mad cap play in the stream of life Video of sky with birds in flight, loops   Phantoms: yes but what I want to know is who here was born what collapse into dance sprung head first from all that is cast in naked burning time Video of static   Girt screams   Girt:         wake up! Phantoms:         the house is on fire Girt:         wake up!   Phantoms:         feel the fire flicker upon your toes feel the smoke roll across your nose Girt:         wake up Phantoms:         unconscious dweller in dreams Girt:         wake up Phantoms:         what opium daze what blind maze keeps you here what fancied illusion what dark confusion keeps you near flames flicker smoke rolls and still you sleep though not so soundly you roll and struggle toss and turn and still you sleep unconscious dweller in dreams Girt:         wake up! Phantoms:         this house is on fire Girt:         wake up! Girt steps back towards the door to leave   The Phantoms step back slowly and out Video of static stops   Fog stops Girt begins to leave the theater looking back at Nemo   Girt: finis sinestrum left hand over silence under current__ continuum I might remain spinning opening outwardly in waves unfolding delight I remain not turning away I am not for you to hold but to chase the doe in the grass   Girt walks out of the theater House lights to half   Priest enters discusted, and invites audience for wine and cake Priest: “ some wedding that was, he sure made a mess of everything” House person enters and nudges Nemo who wakes up startled and agitated realizes he is alone with the audience   Nemo: I’m getting married House person: Yah, yah buddy that’s what they all say   Audience invited for wine and cake Girt curses Nemo in lobby       END