ABSTRACT
This fragment is from Act III of what I called a “physical opera”: a written script for a piece of physical theater that describes in detail a work combining movement, narrative, musicality, and imagery. During this period I wrote several such scripts, searching for a way to compose and articulate nonverbal performance, yet without access to a stable ensemble or much knowledge of how a movement and voice-based theatrical devising process could unfold in practice. These works were never staged. 1
