Words and things: Tony Harrison's poetic stage
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WORDS AND THINGS:
TONY HARRISON’S
POETIC STAGE
ENRIQUE CÁMARA ARENAS
Uni e sidad de Valladolid
In 1977, a e ha ing w i en a e sion o Moliè e’s Le Misan h ope and Racine’s Phèd e
o he Na ional Thea e, Tony Ha ison c ea ed a adically di e en wo k o he s age,
Bow Down, wi h which he began o walk he pa h owa ds a o m o hea e inc easingly
independen , and expe imen al. Expe imen al hea e has adi ionally been he dominion
o di ec o s, a he han playw igh s o li e a y w i e s, u he mo e, he 20 h cen u y has
wi nessed an in ellec ual wa be ween hose who claimed Thea e ’s independence as an
a , expe imen al inno a o s o he mos pa , and hose who wan ed o e ain i wi hin he
domain o li e a u e. Tony Ha ison, a poe , a w i e o li e a u e, en e s he e i o y o
expe imen al hea e eady o pu his wo ds a he se ice o he s age, a he han he s age
a he se ice o his wo ds, in his way he manages o c ea e a o m o hea ical poe y
h ough he le eling he e bal and he non- e bal. This a icle aims a examining some o
he ways in which Ha ison achie es a le eling o he poe ic and he pu ely hea ical.
Wi h he bi h o expe imen al hea e in he 20 h cen u y, he main wo y o
many di ec o s was no longe wo ds and plo s uc u e, as i had been un il ha
momen , bu he cons uc ion o wha could be de ined as he senso y ex , which
implied he a is ic a icula ion o independen non- e bal o ms o communica ion,
such as body exp ession, cos umes, i ual mo emen s, e c. Fo hose who we e a
he momen he a an -ga de di ec o s, he playw igh ’s ex was o seconda y
impo ance compa ed wi h he ce emonial dimension o he eal- ime encoun e
be ween ac o s and audience (Ube s eld 1989: 14).
An onin A aud was one o he i s men o hea e who heo ized his shi 1 o
in e es , and who claimed he p eeminence o he di ec o ’s ex o e he
playw igh ’s. In his iew, adi ional wes e n hea e had oo long be ayed he e y
concep o hea icali y, which o him had o do wi h he con eyance o con en s
ha canno be exp essed by means o wo ds.
1 The lis o con ibu ions has been qui e la ge, hough; in 1909, Fuchs al eady w o e ha a
e-conques o he hea ical had o be implemen ed a he expense o li e a u e (1909: 17), G.
C aig conside ed dancing a he han wo ds as he p ope poe y o he s age (Wal on 1983: 57),
e c. A ine ea men o he subjec can be ound in J. A. Sánchez (1999: 7-43).
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Commen se ai -il qu’au héà e, au héà e du moins el que nous le connaissons
en Eu ope, ou mieux en Occiden , ou ce qui es spéci iquemen héà al, c’es -à-
di e ou ce qui n’obéi pas à l’exp essión pa la pa ole, pa les mo s, ou si l’ón
eu ou ce qui n’es pas con enu dan le dialogue (e le dialogue lui-même
considé é en onc ion de ses possibili és de sono isa ion su la scène, e des
exigences de ce e sono isa ion) soi laissé à l’a ié e-plan ? (1964: 53)
The eal language o hea e was no made up o wo ds no li e a u e, bu i
was a physical language he di ec o had o a icula e, mas e and u n in o a o m
o e ec i e communica ion. This shi made possible such expe imen s as Becke ’s
Ac Wi hou Wo ds (1957), o his amous show B ea h, whe e a se ies o ligh s
we e he only ac o s on he s age.
Wo ds could s ill play a ole in A aud’s hea e, bu hey would be alued in a
adically di e en way. The acous ic p ope ies o he signi ied, oge he wi h he
pa alinguis ic dimension o u e ances whe e exploi ed by A aud, who belie ed
ha he e y sound o wo ds, ega dless o hei meaning, could exp ess an
unlimi ed ange o o he wise unspeakable a ec ions as well as hey could unc ion
as magical spells: “c’es en in considé e le langage sous la o me de l’Incan a ion”
(1964: 67). The wo d on he s age was o o e come a p ocess o deseman iza ion o
become hea ical.
The ole o he so-called non- e bal codes2 in hea e has adi ionally been
conside ed one o complemen a i y. In his sense, in ona ion, acial exp ession,
make up, cos ume, e c. could be conside ed codes which complemen cha ac e s;
he whole se , wi h i s a ied i ems, could be said o complemen he dialogue;
ligh s and sounds could be seen as complemen a y o he ac ion3; o sum i up, he
physicali y o he show was hough and el o be complemen a y and p ope ly
a uned o a li e a y p oduc . Expe imen al hea e ques ioned his complemen a i y
unc ion es ablishing ha e e y objec on he s age could ope a e in an au onomous
ashion no o ien ed o unde line, emphasize o ma e ialize he p ope ies o ex ual
s uc u es such as wo ds, cha ac e s o ac ions, bu becoming he e y nucleus o i s
own meaning.
Wha we ace he e could be desc ibed as a so o ‘Wa o Independence’ led
by some a an -ga de di ec o s, who s uggle o mo e ou o he ealm o li e a u e,
2 Talking abou non- e bal codes is heo e ically qui e p oblema ic, since he ac ha i is
possible o p oduce e ec s and e en o con ey ce ain seman ic con en s, howe e nebulous,
wi hou he use o wo ds, does no allow o he conside a ion ha his o m o communica ion is
subjec o eal, sys ema ized codi ica ion s ic ly speaking. We will s ill use he e m non- e bal
codes in a con en ional manne o alk abou he use o senso ial da a o communica i e,
e ec i e o a ec i e pu poses.
3 F. Gu ié ez (1993: 153-157) o ganizes he adi ional non- e bal codes in o ou ca ego ies
based on he concep o complemen a i y: complemen a ion o cha ac e s, complemen a ion o
dialogue, complemen a ion o ac ion, and complemen a ion in gene al. He admi s ha his
dis inc ion wo ks o adi ional hea e, bu no so much o expe imen al hea e.
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and o ound a new place o hei own, o cons i u e an independen a , di e en in
na u e om ha o no els and poems, and much close and akin o i ual, ce emony
o balle . This claim has p o ed o e ime o be p oduc i e and enjoyable4; bu i has
no p e en ed li e a u e w i e s, such as Tony Ha ison, om ha ing a say on he
expe imen al s age. The ques ion is, how does an a is like Ha ison, whose
business is p ecisely wo ds, deal wi h a o m o a , expe imen al hea e , which
conside s wo ds as a necessa y e il? I some so o comp omise is possible, and
Ha ison’s plays ha e p o ed i is, i is because he na u e o A aud’s a is qui e
compa ible wi h and e en qui e simila o ha o ha poe y.
The deseman iza ion o wo ds claimed by A aud is a concep which is no
en i ely alien o poe y. The essen ial line o hough which de i es om
K uszewski and om Jakobson’s Poe ic Func ion, made i possible o he Spanish
schola -poe Jena o Talens (1978: 65-109), o w i e o deseman iza ion-
o maliza ion in poe y when he e is a co-opposi ion o elemen s which a e
s uc u ally equi alen ; and his Repe i ion and Rhy hm P inciple, was o him he
basic cons uc i e mechanism o poe ic language ( epe i ion o e ains, o syllables
in hyme, o sen ence s uc u e in o mal pa allelisms, o schema ic p ope ies in
me apho s and compa isons, e c.). In he wo ds o Talens:
La combinación de elemen os idén icos conlle a un alo especí ico: la
epe ición de un mismo elemen o, si no elimina, cuando menos casi ahoga su
signi icado (de ahí que la excesi a epe ición de una ase acabe po con e i la
en absu da); es o a ni el de lengua na u al. En el lenguaje poé ico (li e a io en
gene al), sin emba go, el p ocedimien o a más allá, y si, po una pa e, se da una
o malización (deseman ización) de los elemen os epe idos, po o a se p oduce
una seman ización de los enga ces que los unen, es o es, el signi icado pasa a
pe enece al hecho mismo de la epe ición. (1978: 77)
So in poe y, he desaman iza ion o he linguis ic s uc u es by epe i ion
causes a seman iza ion o he e y phenomenon o epe i ion, and his is p ecisely
one o he ways in which poe ic wo ds manage o exp ess con en s beyond hose
assigned by he code; sepa a ed om hei meanings, wo ds s op being wo ds and
become hings o e en s o be in e p e ed by hei p esence and exis ence in a
ce ain momen and place. The p inciple can be p ope ly exp essed in p agma ic
e ms: epe i ion, which is unexpec ed and appa en ly i ele an , mus be made
somehow ele an by ou p agma ic compe ence, and we do so by u ning i
signi ican o some hing: he appa en ly absu d ac o epea ing s uc u ally
equi alen linguis ic segmen s may become mo e meaning ul han he linguis ic
segmen s hemsel es.
4 Ube s eld (1989: 14) conside ed, al eady in 1978, ha adical depa u es om he ex we e
sinking in o dullness. Whe eas adicaliza ion is a e nowadays, pas expe imen s ha e le hei
oo p in on oday’s hea e . (We ci e he Spanish ansla ion o he wo k Li e le Théâ e, Pa is,
Edi ions Sociales, 1978).
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Righ on he opposi e ex eme, he co-opposi ion o s uc u es which a e
di e en is an ob ious maxim o he cons uc ion o a plo , whe e he e needs o be
e olu ion and change, a pa h ha le s he eade slide smoo hly owa ds
denouemen . Such is he discu si e mode o composi ion (Talens 1978: 74).
Tu ning now ou glance back o expe imen al hea e in i s wa agains li e a u e,
agains wo ds and plo s, we ealize ha we can also unde s and i as a wa agains
aliena ing5 discu si e language, and a p iming o poe ic p inciples o composi ion
wi h non e bal elemen s, a subs i u ion o ‘c ea ing poe ic e ec s and meanings’
o he adi ional ‘ elling a s o y i idly’. In his wa , poe y, wi h i s cons i u i e
endency o epe i ion, o maliza ion, and wi h i s long acknowledged goal o
speaking he unspeakable, becomes an ally a he han a oe.
In his sense, Tony Ha ison’s hea e is as poe ic as i is an i-discu si e;
especially he hea e he poe designed, and o en di ec ed, be ween Bow Down
(1977) and Medea: a sex wa ope a (1985). This co pus cons i u es o some c i ics
he mos ly ical wo k he poe c ea ed o he s age, o o he s, like P. Le i, i is jus
a ‘musical dis ac ion’(1991:163). I is signi ican ha Le i’s in e es in Ha ison’s
hea e ocuses mainly on wo ks o discu si e na u e, ha is, hose in which he e is
a p edominance o plo and dialogue, and a e, he e o e, adi ionally d ama ic
(al hough Le i, qui e unwisely, calls i “legi ima e hea e” (1991:163), wha le s us
wonde ing whe he he can possibly conside ha plays such as Bow Down
cons i u e o ms o ‘illegi ima e hea e’!). In he Bow Down G oup (Bow Down
(1977), Yan Tan Te he a(1983), The Big H (1984)), i is no he s o ies hemsel es
ha ma e , a leas no so much as he ac o elling hose s o ies and he mo al
implica ions o he di e en ellings.6
The language o he plays in he Bow Down G oup makes signi ican use o
he p inciple o epe i ion o he pu pose o c ea ing i ual, spellbounding e ec s.
Bow Down, o ins ance, consis s o he con inuous epe i ion by a cho us o he
di e en e sions o he amous Ballad o he Two Sis e s. Once and again as he
show p oceeds he e is an obsessi e e u n o he i s line o he ballad: “The e
we e wo sis e s in a bowe ”, and o he e ain “I’ll be ue o my lo e/ i my lo e
will be ue o me”. Fu he mo e, a a ce ain poin he pe o mance becomes
i ualis ic o he ex end ha i ecalls some so o esponso ial psalm:
“CHORUS 2 en e s he ci cle, silences he music an eci es a ballad, wi h he
CHORUS esponding wi h e ains and hal -lines: The e we e wo sis e s in a
bowe / Bow down, bow down, bow down . . .”(1973: 129).
5 I use he e m ‘aliena ing’ qui e awa e o i s implici allusion o B ech ’s Epic Thea e .
B ech ’s was ce ainly a wa agains he seda i e e ec s o he well-made play; as a colla e al
e ec o his sea ch, he was one o he inno a o s who made clea ha essen ial di e ence
be ween he d ama ic and he hea ical. A de ini ion o he Epic and i s con as wi h he
D ama ic can be ound in J. Wille ’s an hology (1964: 179:205).
6 This is de ini ely a ea u e ha b ings he plays o his g oup close o he concep o Epic
Thea e.
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This i ualis ic mechanism is epea ed in Yan Tan Te he a:
CHORUS OF HORNED WILTSHIRE SHEEP.
This is he sound o he bells olk hea in he alley...
SHEEP 1.
When I un wi h a d y h oa o d ink om he dewpond.
CHORUS
This is he sound o he bells olk hea in he alley...
SHEEP 2.
When he hick g ass o he downs is looded wi h sunshine.
CHORUS
This is he sound o he bells olk hea in he alley...
SHEEP 3.
When my hoo es go sli h’ ing o e he slipp’ y chalk slopes.
CHORUS
This is he sound o he bells olk hea in he alley... [...] (1973: 297)
The p inciple o epe i ion a ec s uni s la ge han he wo d, he sen ence o he
e se-line; in Bow Down and The Big H, i is a whole na a i e s uc u e ha is
epea ed wi h sligh bu signi ican a ia ions. In he o me , he same ballad is
epea ed in many o i s e sions; he di e en a ian s can be easily classi ied in
wo g oups. All e sions ha e a simila na a i e s uc u e: one sis e , he Da k
Sis e , kills ano he , he Fai Sis e , o ma y he lo e , la e o be punished o ha
c ime. Bu he di e en e sions sugges di e en ea u es o he cons uing o he
ac an s. In some e sions he Fai Sis e appea s as ain, concei ed and e en c uel:
FAIR SISTER.
Wash you hai in he sal sea b ine
i will ne e be as ai as mine.
E en i you hai was gold
you’ll always li e alone and cold.
Wash you sel as whi e as bone
bu you’ll always li e alone.
Wash you sel as whi e as lou
you’ll be one sis e in a bowe . (1973: 132)
And he sui o is ep esen ed as a li :
CHORUS 7. He cou ed he eldes wi glo e and ing,
CHORUS 8. Bu he lo ed he younges abo e a’ hing .
CHORUS 7. He cou ed he eldes wi h b o ch and kni e,
CHORUS 2. Bu he lo ed he younges as his wi e.
CHORUS 7. He b ough he eldes ing and glo e,
CHORUS 8. Bu he younges was his ain ue-lo e. (1973: 129)
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In hese e sions o he ballad, bo h he Fai Sis e and he Sui o pay o hei
ani y and be ayal, and he Da k Sis e , howe e e ible, is cons ued as a
e enge ul Medea-like he oine. Bu in o he e sions he Da k Sis e ’s c ime
emana es di ec ly om he sinis e na u e; she is he one who plays un ai in an
o he wise ai compe i ion. So some e sions mo alize agains ani y, and o he
e sions mo alize agains c ime and en y. In ying o make sense o he play and
i s na a i e incohe ence7, he plo becomes o seconda y impo ance, and he e y
ac o mo alizing li e a u e eme ges, allowing us o conclude ha he whole play
e lec s abou li e a y p oduc s and i s mo alizing po en ial. Ha ison’s wa in his
case, as in many o he s, is no so much a wa agains li e a u e as a wa agains i s
ex ual illusions, and he igh s his wa by decons uc ing he s o ies, showing i s
many con adic o y e sions, and acking i s uses in se e al languages and dialec s.
In doing so, he poe si ua es himsel ou side he ealm o li e a u e p ope , o c ea e
some so o me a-li e a y p oduc . The s o y is no longe a na a i e s uc u e
p epa ed o cap i a e an audience, i is objec i ied, ha is, i becomes a hing o
e lec upon.
In The Big H (1984), he same na a i e s uc u e is epea ed h ee imes wi h
sligh bu signi ican a ia ions: he se ing being a class oom, he eache
announces an exam Æ he s uden s complain Æ he eache u ns in o He od
Æs uden s u n in o he P el Æ He od/ Teache p aises he c iminal deeds o his
soldie s/ s uden s Æ he las o he soldie s s ands ou o his di icul ies in
p onouncing he glo al ica i e Æ he soldie is punished Æ he mo he s
complain. Once he i s wo sequences ha e been pe o med as pe ec s uc u al
equi alen s, he las sequence comple ely lacks d ama ic ension, no ha i eally
aimed a being d ama ic. The epe i ion is es ablished as some hing o an ope a i e
con en ion,8 and denouemen no longe appeals. Again, his clea ly epic echnique
in i es he ea men o he s o y as a hing which equi es a symbolic in e p e a ion.
I is no he s o y o a pa icula child wha we ha e he e, bu a e lec ion abou
cul u e and powe , and abou how cul u e, h ough i s ins i u ional p opaga ion, is
used as a ool o legi ima e powe . The lack o cul u e o he las s uden u ns him
7 Incohe ence which ine i ably de i es om he episodic na u e o he show, and om he
ac ha hose episodes a e no logically connec ed. Again, a ea u e ha eminds us o B ech ian
hea e.
8 P. Pa is (1998: 95) de ines he ope a i e con en ion as ha which ‘is p esen ed o e ly as
an a i icial ool o be used o a ew minu es’ (my ansla ion). In Bow Down and The Big H, he
epe i ion o a na a i e s uc u e happens con inually all along he pe o mance, so ha i canno
be an ope a i e con en ion in Pa is’ e ms. Howe e , he o he g oup o con en ions desc ibed by
his au ho , he cha ac e izing con en ions, a e de ined as ‘ hose which help u n inc edible
con en ions in o c edible ones’ (my ansla ion). Wi h his echnique I e y much doub ha
Ha ison be conce ned wi h e isimili ude, I would a he hink ha he is in i ing us o play a
e y well known game: ‘look a he wo almos iden ical pic u es and look o he di e ences (and
he simila i ies)’. I is because I pe cei e his con en ion as play ul ha I end o ega d i as an
ope a i e con en ion.
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in o a ic im, while succeeding in educa ion opens he doo o powe and
domina ion. Impossible no o men ion he e A hu Sca gill’s amous quo a ion,
wi h which Tony Ha ison would open, some yea s la e , his long poem .: “My
a he s ill eads he dic iona y e e y day. He says ha you li e depends on you
powe o mas e wo ds”.
In Bow Down, a ypically expe imen al piece, Ha ison makes a sophis ica ed
use o non- e bal codes. Fu he mo e, he physical ex and he e bal ex go hand
in hand in he c ea ion o spellbounding e ec s which emind us o A aud’s
heo iza ion:
The cas , posi ioned in a ci cle, eci e, sing, chan , in one, hum, keen, sway,
mime, ac , dance; e en hei b ea hing becomes pa o he hy hm and he e ec .
The e a e masks, i ual mo emen s, ab up c ies; he in eg a ion o a ious
elemen s [...] is ha monious. (As ley 1991: 195)
Mo emen s, spa ial ela ions and objec s on he s age do no aim a seeming
eal, and do no aim a complemen ing e bal ac ion in he adi ional sense. These
elemen s answe o elabo a e physical g amma s and mos o hem a e clea ly
symbolic. The loss o he adi ional complemen a y unc ion oge he wi h he loss
o e isimili ude con inually igge s in e p e a ion o he ex en ha we can clea ly
alk o a physical ex no subo dina ed o e bal ex . The es imony o S ephen
Edwa ds is mos signi ican a his poin ; Edwa d p aises Ha ison’s openness as a
di ec o ; e en when his ield as a poe is wo ds, his aim is no o o na e wo ds wi h
music, bu o collabo a e wi h he compose in he sea ch o a new o m in which
wo ds and music a e le eled, “a conglome a e o he bes o bo h wo lds” (As ley
1991: 163). This sea ch is illed wi h he same nos algia ha mo ed mos
inno a o s o he hea e du ing he 20 h cen u y, a yea n o he p imi i e o ms o
social and communi y hea e.
This yea n explains he essen ialism o he s age in Bow Down, whe e he e is
no deco a ion, no se , no objec s o he han he e y ac o s who c ea e di e en
spaces wi h hei posi ioning and hei mo emen s. Bu e en he e, we de ec wha
we migh call a poe ic cons uc ion o he s age. The ac o s si on a semici cle
which migh be ep oduced as ollows:
musician
ac ess
ac o
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The e is symme y and epe i ion in he posi ioning o ac o s on he s age, and
his p oxemic s uc u e ep oduces he dialec ic ela ion ha exis s be ween he wo
sis e s, and he wo main e sions o he s o y. The ac esses ha pe o m he oles
o Da k sis e and Fai sis e s ep ou in o he ci cle om opposi e sides. The i s
mo emen s hey pe o m oge he mimic hei dea h, an icipa ing bo h he ending o
he ballad as well as he le eling o he wo main e sions: bo h a e i s seen as
ic ims o an agg essi e p ocess.
The semici cle is qui e success ully exploi ed in e ms o meaning, and i
con ibu es o he conside a ion o he ballad as a hing o s udy and obse e. The
igu e sepa a es wo spaces, one o ic ion, he inside o he ci cle, and ano he o
e lec ion, he ou side o he ci cle. The ac o s become ac an s in he ballad any ime
he s ep in o he inne space; and any ime hey s ep ou , hey become he elle s o
he s o y, o mo e p ope ly, ac an s in he p ocess o elling a s o y. The igu e o
he ci cle hen is a isual ep esen a ion o a con lic be ween he s o y and he ac
o elling o , a he , using i . Inside he ci cle, he na a i e s uc u e is some hing o
look a om he ou side, e y especially om he angle o he audience, who
ac ually closes he semici cle.
Ac ion does also ake place ou side he ci cle, hough always connec ed o he
ci cle in se e al ways:
FAIR SISTER.
O...
O... sis e ...
O... sis...
O...si...
A he inal c y CHORUS 2 becomes he BLIND HARPER who ca ches he c y
and p olongs i wi h i ’s own:
BLIND HARPER.
....s e
Then he begins o walk ound he ou side o he cho al ci cle composing a ballad.
He is walking he sea-sho e. He seems o ha e one oo in he wa e and one oo
on he sand. As he eels he wa e deepen he e ades i wi h a dex e i y ha has
come om cen u ies o doing he same hing. His wa e ing “dance” ollows he
ebb and low o he ides. He has been ollowing he No he n coas s, sea ching,
lis ening. His “dance” de ines he con ou s o he con inen s. He mu e s
agmen s o he Ballad and as he passes each o he CHORUS hey ake up a
pi ch om his mu e . (127)
This elabo a e cho eog aphy is a leas enigma ic. The mo emen s o he Blind
Ha pe ou side he ci cle make no con ibu ion o he ac ion o he ballad i sel . I is
impossible o unde s and hese mo emen s as complemen a y o any o he ac ions
o he main cha ac e s in he ballad, bu ne e heless, being ob iously elabo a e and
leng hy, hey become he only ocus o a en ion. We, bo h as audience and eade s,
ind i necessa y o in e hei meaning. Impo an cues a e p o ided by he s age
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di ec ions, bu he sepa a ion be ween he na a i e p ocesses o he ballad as ic ion
and he p ocess o ep esen a ion ex e io o he ballad, which has been al eady
poin ed ou , gi es all he necessa y in o ma ion o he audience, who ha e no access
o he w i en s age di ec ions. The Blind Ha pe ep esen s he uni e sal ba d, he
class o he ba ds, who picks he s o y somewhe e, pe haps om eali y, and bo h
owns i and p opaga es i a ound he wo ld (“ca ches he c y and p olongs i wi h
i ’s own”). The ba d sha es he s o y, bu he adds his own a ia ions, and
in e p e a ions o he na a i e ac s. Any ime a new e sion comes in o play, he
Blind Ha pe eappea s and ini ia es he p ocess. So e en when he e is ac ion
ou side he ci cle, we a e s ill in he me a-li e a y domain, beyond wo ds.
Also inside he ci cle, i is no uncommon o ind scenes in which he non-
e bal codes, especially p oxemic and kinesic, gain hei independence om
dialogue. Bu no only he mo emen s on he s age esis subo dina ion o he
dialogue, hey e en manage o subo dina e e bal codes. A a ce ain poin in one o
he e sions o he ballad, a mille and a se an ind he d owned body o he ai
sis e , and p oceed o sexually abuse i and o s ip i o i s jewels. I we y o ead
his pa jumping o e he s age di ec ions, unde s anding o wha is going on
would equi e qui e a lo o in e ence. Howe e , i we ead only pa o he s age
di ec ions we manage o ollow he whole scene:
body [FS] becomes all luidi y
body collapses
[M’D] coming o e ch wa e
goes o wa e . . . disco e s body
[MIL, SERV] come ou o see body
[SERV] bends down as i o kiss
as [GHOST] ises she sings no e
[SERV] mimes kissing body
GHOST behind ouches he lips
SERVANT ecoils
[MIL,SERV] s udy body
MILLER emo es ing om hand o body/ h ows i in bucke
GHOST sings ‘p o e ue, my lo e p o e ue o me’ each o he eigh ings
pinging on each wo d’
[MIL, SERV] emo e uppe ga men s / s a e a b eas s
[SERV] snips o nipple which [MIL] ca ches and h ows i in bucke
Ping. Then ano he . Ping!
[GHOST] ouches each o he b eas s in u ns and sings
[MIL] poin ing o body’s na el
[SERV] scoops ou na el and h ows i in o bucke . Ping!
[GHOST] ouches he na el and sings
[SERV] looks a body d eaming e o ic d eams
[SERV] d eamily
They li up legs and pull o d awe s