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Prelude
Pre- Show, music is playing in the Lobby. Audience
members are invited to create a symbol upon their ticket stub, representing whatever needs to be forgiven or released in their
lives - either in themselves or in others - around their sensual lives and the lives of
their families, and these are placed in a large cauldron
Overture
The Goddess ~ (who is also Mother Gaia)opens this ritual with ~An Invocation.
The Sacred Clowns speak the opening monologue...
and drink a toast
'to the ones not yet born...'
Act I
Midnight, September 10th 2000
A young man, Michael is strolling through the streets
of New York.With a bottle of champagne in one hand and a bunch
of flowers in the other,, Michael is bound for the dating game. He sings: The
Streets of New York….We see the vitality of NY at night.As he comes to Maya's door and is about to knock,
a unique, pregnant bag lady
(Mother Gaia ~ in disguise)comes before him and speaks A Poem by Hafiz,
(Transl... By Daniel Landinsky)
The demon (masked yet dressed for Wall Street) looks on, unnoticed, as does Pan, Gaia's consort
who sings I'm Pan the Man.
Michael, perplexed is buzzed up to the boudoir where Maya,
a gorgeous young woman, evolves through song ~transforming herself from a feminist into a seductress
and back again during a song: Feminine Dilemma.
Fascinated, he follows her as she dances out to the
penthouse roof where a shimmering silver tribe of intergalactic
gypsies dance ~
a flamenco
hymn honoring the The Goddess as the Moon.
The women of the tribe surround Mayaas the Sacred Clowns speak of the female moon mysteries.The women enact a ritual and sing: Goddesspell
Maya is transformed and sings to Michael about honoring
the Goddess in woman.
The Sacred Clown speaks of Honor and Love and the
importance of the female principle in spiritual and worldly matters.Deeply affected and
somewhat dazed, Michael returns to the street
and listens, along with
a growing group of people on the street to the radical songs of Gaia,
still dressed as a bag lady…..She and Pan sing about the homeless in the song: Please
Stay With Me,
And as a
growing group of teens surround
her, she and Pan sing Poor Little Rich Kid
By this time the police arrive
and a dance occursas the kids withdraw and the police move forward. Nearby the Demon
lurks in his blackened limo. All you see is two red lasered eyes piercing
through the front windshield. In a strobe lit, heavy metal, cosmos/orchestral instrumental
Gaia is arrested and thrown into jail.Pan fights desperately but
is unable to free her. Alone in a cell she goes into labor and gives birth.The jailers enter and take her baby away.They hand it, in a cradle
to a blindfolded judge.The judge has a mallet raised and slowly it is coming
down ~ from a suspended height above the cradle ~The clowns in a roguish Cirque de Soleil acrobatic romp manage
to push the cradle(with just their toes showing from another dimension)past the judge’s blind aim and on it glides into the
child protection system.
End of Act 1
Act II ~ The Falling - One year later
September 10 2001, sometime after Midnight, New York
City
Scene 1
Back in Maya's boudoir, things have become more cozy and home-like.The cosmic cradle (the human child of Gaia) is at the
head of the bed. Michael and Maya are in bed sharing a very conscious
form of tantric bliss,Maya sings of how Michael’s love assists her in awakening the Goddess within
herself in the song: I Return.
Michael holds her and as they sleep, the Sacred Clowns introduce Shameless, who
dances in the archetypal mirror. Sherepresents Heyoka or trickster energy:
she is an archetype
of untamed erotica:Shameless sings the song White Tyger. Michael awakens
into the dream mirror aroused.
Maya awakens and goes into a jealous rage. She tears
off her pretty nightgown revealing a dominatrix costume.Michael
at first intimidated rises in oppositional rage.
They sing a duet: ~Anima City during which they fight over the cradle.Dawn comes through windows
in the shadow
of the Towers.
Michael wrestles the child away and leaves. Maya
throws herself, with a horrifying shriek to the ground.
Through windows we see the Towers fall.
Chaos whirls.
Video imagessuperimpose with the visage of the demon wearing
many masks
. Gradually voices of children
sing in pure soprano tones as images of children from many cultures merge into
each other .
Song ~ The Human Child.
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Scene 2returns to the street where Gaia, at ground zero
singsWhat If - a song which challenges the official story
behind 911.(Opens in separate window)
Gaia is arrested again. The Demon flies overhead in a totally
blackened helicopter...
Scene 3: City Jail.
Gaia sings Mother’s
Cry
.
Maya is pushed into the cell - Drunk and disorderly, she
stumbles, her head landing on Gaia’s lap. Drugged, self-destructive and in misery….she listens as Gaia sings: Oh Sister
calling on
women to awaken and reclaim their place in the cosmic order of things.
Maya is drawn out of her self-pity and together they are empowered. The jail
doors open and they are drawn out to where Pan waits, smiling. He drives them off into a
wild land where the gypsy tribe greets them.
The Demon follows in a black van.
Scene 4: The tribe gives Gaia the honor due to the Earth Mother.
Her rags fall away revealing her true nature.
Maya is taken to an altar-like bed preparing her for an
initiation. As she sleeps,Michael arrives, led by one of the gypsies. He
is exhausted and covered in concrete dust.The child is in his arms. Michael sings Interesting
How they Say…Gaia joins the song although he is not aware of her presence. A young girl
from the tribe takes
the child gently from himwhile others lay him down on another initiation bed. The hearts of
Michael and Maya having been broken are opened to forgiveness as they sleep.
At
this point the Demon enters.Obvious now as the personification of evil
he strolls in , wearing one of his many masks.
Gaia confronts him, the
tribe surrounds him and sings Demon Deity,
an exorcism supported by rattles,
drums and medicine chants sung by the tribe.As a
video backdrop reveals the economic evils behind the
falling of the towers, the hunger of most of humanityand the loss of natural balance on earth, the Demon's masks begin to fall
away.By the last verse he is revealed and his is influence over the affairs of the earth comes
to an end...the earth splits open and Pan stands looking at him - he flickers
his eye and brow almost imperceptibly as the Demon falls into the abyss.
The Sacred Clown raps whimsically about strengthening the foundations of creation
and the path to the holy grail ~leading the audience in a song of Forgiveness
and redemption...
A hypnotic induction and a ritual of forgiveness occur
which includes the whole cast and audience. The tribe sit around a circle of fire.
In the center is the cauldron where the original audience ticket stubs are
ignited with sage. The audience is invited to walk the initiation
path through
fire, water, wind and earth.
The cast sings: Listen to the
Heavenly
The end of act
II
Act III ~The Return of the Goddess ~ Timelessness in Nature ~
Act three
opens around a fire with the tribe dressed as Kachinas representing all species andthe ways of the Sacred Healers.Michael and Maya
are still sleeping on opposite sides of the fire. The Tribe sings: Red Skies a
song of awakening amidst troubling times ~
They chant
The Phoenix and the spirit of prophecy speaks
through them.
Michael and Maya awaken and sing a duet: Learning
How to LoveThe tribe dances a dance of reconciliation amongst humanity - the yin
and yang become more balanced.
Gaia
looks down from atop the mountain where burning and destruction are still
occurring below.She sings with the cast joining her in the anthem,
Heaven On Earth
.
During the song the child is brought to Pan who presents
the child reverently to Gaia.She holds the child in her arms for the remainder of the
opera.
A Tantric ecstatic dance begins that
evolves over several
songs: Michael and Maya come together in a new way, singing the
song: Secrets
The Sacred Clown raps of empowered ecstasy and its potential to heal many
of the world’s imbalances.
Sacred Union is sung
You are My Religion is sung: the quintessence of
Tantric bliss in duet ~ and dance.
Hieros Gamos (sacred union of masculine and feminine)occurs between Michael and Mayaand many other couples in the tribe ~
The cast come forward representing all beings. The clowns conduct and the cast speaks/sings/chants: Our Mother. Gaia, in response, chants with the rest
of the cast
Gaia’s ~ Sermon on the Mount
The entire cast sings the anthem:
OurStory
Finis
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and listens, along with
a growing group of people on the street
Michael awakens
into the dream mirror aroused.
Chaos whirls.
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