KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR ALICE BY HEART

West of Words 1
LONDON, 1941. NIGHT.
The sound of bombs falling. [MUSIC GO]

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through a rubble-heap of what was once her home. At last, she unearths a treasured book.

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And now, YOUNG PEOPLE seeking cover run into the shelter, wearing gas masks. ALICE removes her mask, and seems to stand
somewhere out of time. Holding tightly to her book, she looks upon this ghostly world.

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Play 2x ALICE:

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 2) ALICE BY HEART

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(ALICE)

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I knew as me, Be - fore be - fore– My room, my pict - ures, A sky no fire

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Fl. & Tpt. OUT

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Tpt.
cresc.
Gtr.1(El.) ’s w/tremolo pedal

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 3) ALICE BY HEART

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(A siren sounds. As music underscores, everyone removes their gas mask and ducks beneath their cot – everyone except
ALICE, who sits immersed in her book.
Then, with a synchronized gesture, all the youths lift one side of their cot and set it on the platform with a bang, bringing us
back into the present. [BEGIN FADE OUT] We realize that these youths have settled into a makeshift home, a ward of the
ailing and wounded, encamped in this Station. The fey but weary DODGY turns to the posh young CLARISSA.)

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 4) ALICE BY HEART

DODGY: RED CROSS NURSE:

Darling, I’ve forgotten – is it day or night? Catch that cough, he’ll be your death.
CLARISSA: Ward D.
You pick. (Aside to DR. BUTRIDGE)
The good-as-dead.
(On her round of passing out grey war blankets, the RED
CROSS NURSE trundles through. She passes the anxious, DR. BUTRIDGE: (Hard of hearing)
newly orphaned DODGY) Whaaaat?

RED CROSS NURSE: RED CROSS NURSE:

Chilly night tonight. Good-as-dead.
ALICE:
NIGEL: (Quietly, to himself) What are you talking about? He’s not dying.
My Mummy’s coming for me today.
My Mummy’s coming for me today… RED CROSS NURSE:
None found.
(We see the street-tough TABATHA, perched high on a ladder)
ALICE:
TABATHA: (Not buying it) He has me. He’ll get better near me.
Oh do you think? Please. Don’t move him. He’s my dearest friend.
Just like mine and yours, and his and hers. RED CROSS NURSE:
(The ailing ALFRED is carred on and settled in a quarantine Today he is your dearest friend. Tomorrow, a statistic.
area. The antediluvian DR. BUTRIDGE reads from his ALICE:
clipboard:) Don’t listen to them, Alfred. I’ll read to you.
DR. BUTRIDGE: You’ll feel better.
Hallam. Alfred Hallam. RED CROSS NURSE:
(ALICE rises, rushes toward ALFRED, her book in hand) Alice Spencer!
Thirty-thousand dead up there – and you, with your
ALICE: head in Wonderland.
Alfred? My Alfred! You found him!
(The RED CROSS NURSE makes a grab for ALICE’s book – but
(Before the weakened ALFRED can reply, DR. BUTRIDGE ALICE holds onto it)
shuts the quarantine curtain in ALICE’s face)
RED CROSS NURSE: (cont’d)
DR. BUTRIDGE: Back! To! Your! Bed!
They found him in the gutter, buried in the rubble.
Whole block went down. And button up that blousey, Mousey.

(ALICE reaches for the quarantine curtain, but the RED CROSS ALICE: (Heads to her cot)
NURSE stops her) But it is – all buttoned. It’s just grown smaller, really.

RED CROSS NURSE: TABATHA: (With a knowing, survivor’s grin)

Alice! Back to your bed. Funny how that happens, when the boys start growing
bigger.
DR. BUTRIDGE:
Superventrical Tachycardia, with Hypovolemia– CLARISSA: (Suddenly panicked)
Oh my God – my pearls! Where are my pearls?
ALICE:
What does that mean? DODGY: (Withdrawing the strand from his neck)
They insisted.
DR. BUTRIDGE:
Hyperhydrosis – (DODGY begrudgingly hands CLARISSA the pearls. As NIGEL
rocks, ALICE looks again toward ALFRED)
ALICE:
That means he’ll be all right? NIGEL:
Right? My Mummy’s coming for me today.
My Mummy’s coming for me today.
DR. BUTRIDGE: My Mummy’s coming for me today…
Due to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis –
(HAROLD PUDDING, a young soldier with PTSD, reaches for
RED CROSS NURSE: ALICE, thwarting her cross to ALFRED and leading her to his
We must move that boy – to the end of the line. own cot.)
ALICE: HAROLD PUDDING:
Alfred? No! Shall we have some tea? Shall we?
Tea for two? For him and me – and me.

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 5) ALICE BY HEART

CLARISSA: (Ironic) (ALICE is about to head to ALFRED’s cot, but DR. BUTRIDGE
Absolutely. is right there.)
With just a spit of jam – DR. BUTRIDGE:
DODGY: Misplaced Wits:
And a spot of Spam. Hypnagogic Hallucinations due to –

HAROLD PUDDING: RED CROSS NURSE:

Spam! Spam! What is Spam? Dr. Butridge!
Spam is ham that didn’t pass its physical. DR. BUTRIDGE: (Hard of hearing)
But me, I’m sound. I’m all sound now, me. Whaaaaaat?
This time I’ll passs…
DODGY: (Making fun)
(ANGUS – edgy, working class – leans toward HAROLD.) Whaaaaaaat?
ANGUS: TABATHA:
You’ve passed, Harold. It’s past. Oh that’s funny, is it?
HAROLD PUDDING: Would that a bomb blew out your eardrum.
I have? Sir, yes, Sir! Mad, mad – we’ve all gone mad here.
Pudding. Harold Pudding, reporting for duty, Sir.
NIGEL:
(DODGY and CLARISSA exchange a look. ANGUS chastens “O let me not be mad, not mad…”
them:) My essay on King Lear – it’s due at noon!
ANGUS: DODGY: (Waves it away)
You try losing your wits on the front, then coming home I’ll write you a note, darling. You have a good excuse.
to the Blitz.
[MUSIC GO]

ANGUS:
(ALICE makes her move toward One puff – and all this fades away.
ALFRED, but ANGUS circles her, You’re in some other dream.
flirtatiously blowing smoke from his
opium pipe into her face.) CLARISSA:
Anywhere but here.

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 6) ALICE BY HEART

(As ALICE sings, light falls over the ensemble, creating Wonderland images: the soldier

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becomes a Hatter taking tea; tall Birds appear, with gas masks for beaks.)

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 KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 7) ALICE BY HEART

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 8) ALICE BY HEART

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(The ensemble forms an enormous shell, DR. BUTRIDGE peeks his head out as an ancient Tortoise.)
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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 9) ALICE BY HEART

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some-thing whis - pers of some - thing gone, A lit - tle Chesh-ire purr… West of words…
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ALFRED:
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slight growl (purr!)

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Tpt. p P ‰ J J J u
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 KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 10) ALICE BY HEART

(The lights shift and real-world time resumes. As the song

concludes, ALICE sees the RED CROSS NURSE pushing
through, distributing rations, and settles back on her cot.)

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ALICE:
RED CROSS NURSE: Come with me.
Tin tomatoes with your bacon, You can run there. You can breathe there.
and more of you than rations – not a word You’ll be well again. Then they won’t take you away.
about it. We’ll have each other, always.
(TABATHA drops a tin can in the RED CROSS NURSE’s ALFRED:
path. The NURSE trips on it, rations go flying) We’ll start reading, I won’t even reach The End.
DODGY: (Screams in fear – a bomb?!) ALICE:
Aaah! Of course you will!
(But everyone just stares at him. He covers:) All this – we can make it disappear.
Just trying to get the party started.
(The lights shift, dimming on the Tube Station, and rising on a
RED CROSS NURSE: scene from Alice’s memory: we see the six-year-old YOUNG
Tabatha! Such a trial! ALICE chasing the six-year-old YOUNG ALFRED through the
cots in the Station, as they act out Alice chasing the White
(As the RED CROSS NURSE kneels to clean up the mess, Rabbit in the Book.)
TABATHA points ALICE toward ALFRED. ALICE crosses
quickly to him.) YOUNG ALFRED:
Oh my ears and whiskers. I’m late! So late!
CLARISSA: (Indicating TABATHA)
Well, we all know who gets that Tabby’s vote YOUNG ALICE:
for Orphan of the Year. White Rabbit! White Rabbit!
(She can’t catch him)
DODGY: Dear, dear. How queer everything is today!
Has to save somebody. Since she couldn’t save
her sister. (The present-day ALFRED addresses ALICE:)
TABATHA: (A hiss) ALFRED:
Sssssssss. I won’t start what I can’t finish.
(ALICE has reached ALFRED) ALICE:
I know – since forever.
ALICE:
Alfred! (ALICE gazes into that memory. In a pool of light, the
six-year-old YOUNG ALICE and YOUNG ALFRED sit and
ALFRED: (Feverish)
read silently from the Book. We hear YOUNG ALFRED’S
Alice, I’m falling away.
MOTHER calling from offstage.)
The stars are so bright, they hurt my eyes –
YOUNG ALFRED’S MOTHER:
ALICE:
Alfred, time for supper!
That’s the fever talking, not you.
Let me read to you. I went back, I found our book. (YOUNG ALICE and YOUNG ALFRED ignore her call and
I’ll bring you to our world again. remain immersed in the Book.)
ALFRED: ALICE:
Our world. What world? Even when you were six, staying well past dark,
ignoring your mother’s calls – you so had to finish it.
Come there with me.

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 11) ALICE BY HEART

ALFRED:
I’ve no time left – you understand?
ALICE:
Don’t believe them. [MUSIC GO]

ALICE: (cont’d)

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61 You can’t let them take this from us. Not this, too. It’s all we have. It’s Wonderland.

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ALICE:

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There’s a world
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& # #
Fl.

wœ . œ ˙ ww ˙ œ ˙. Œ
‰ œJ œ œ œ œ œ œ ˙.
Tpt.(cup)

#### Πj j j j j
& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œj œ œ œ œ j
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
j
C #m C #m/ AMAJ7
? #### w
D
nw w w
69 w/Vcl. 70 71 72

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 12) ALICE BY HEART

#### (ALICE)
Œ
& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
ing through the ground, And fall - ing slow; The hou -
####
œ œ œ œ œ œ Œ
(ALFRED)
V œ œ œ œ œ œ
ing through the ground, And fall - ing slow; The hou -
# ## j j
& # œ œ œ œ œ œ
j
œ œ œ œ œ œ
j
C #m C #m/
œ œ nœ
? # # # # Œw œ Œ Œ D
nw
Œ
Vcl.

73 74

#### j
‰ ‰
3

& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
œ œ
ses tumb - ling down, still we know we know All that
# # œ
V # # œ œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ
3

J
ses tumb - ling down, still we know we know All that
#### j j
& œ œ œ j œ œ œ j
œ œ œ œ œ œ
AMAJ7 j j
? #### Œ œ œ Œ ‰ œ œ œ œ ‰ Œ
w w
75 76

#### œ ˙
& œ. Œ ‰ j jœ j j j j Œ ‰ j
J œ œ œ œ. œ œ œ œ ˙ œ
yearns– West of words, West of words… A
#### œ . œ ˙ Œ ‰ œJ œJ œ œ œ. œ œ œ œ ˙ Ó
V J J J J J
yearns– West of words, West of words…
# # j Œ ˙
& # #
Fl.
œ˙. . œ ˙ œ œ ww œ ˙. Œ
‰ œ œ œ œ œ ˙.
Tpt. J J J

#### Πj j j j
& œ œ œ j œ œ œ j œ œ œ j œ œ œ j
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
C #m C #m/ AMAJ7
? # # # # Ów
D
Œ
˙ n ww w ˙ œ w
77 78 79 80

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 13) ALICE BY HEART

####
81

j j j
& œ. œ œ œ ‰ œ œ œ œ œj œ œ
j œ. œ ˙
rose re - mem - bered Draws us on - ward A world ad - journed,
#### j
V ∑ Ó Œ ‰ œ œ. œ ˙
J
A world ad - journed,
# #
& # # w
˙. œ # ww w
w
P cresc.

# # # # ˙˙ ˙˙˙
& ˙ # ˙˙˙ ˙˙
˙ ˙˙ ˙˙
˙ ˙
G #sus G #7 A/
D
? #### w œ œ ‰ j
nw
poco gliss.

J œ œ #œ
Œ ‰ Œ w œ
81 Vcl. 82 œ 83 n w
Vcl. cont.

(The pool of light fades. YOUNG ALICE

and YOUNG ALFRED disappear. The
lights rise again on the Tube Station.)
ALFRED:

#### Œ
You go there, without me now.

& ‰ j j j ∑
œ œ œ œ w
West of words…
#### Œ œ œ nœ œ w
V ‰ J J ∑
J
West of words…
# #
& # # ˙.
˙. Œ Œ ˙˙ Œ Œ œ˙ . œ ˙
P dim. a niente

#### w
& ww Œ œœœ ˙˙˙ Œ œœœ ˙˙˙
œ œ
AMAJ9
? #### w
œ œ ˙. œ œ ˙.
84 w 85 86

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KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR #1 – West of Words (pg. 14) ALICE BY HEART

ALICE: (ALFRED coughs, violently. As the music recedes, ALICE

You can’t…lose heart. settles him on his cot and begins reading to him.)
ALFRED: ALICE:
Oh really? After everything else we’ve lost? “Chapter One: Down the Rabbit Hole:” [MUSIC OUT]

# # # # . Repeat & fade

..
& . ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑

#### . Πj j j j ..
& .
œ œ œ œ œj œ œ œ œ œ œj œ œ œ œ œ j
œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ
j
C #m C #m/ AMAJ7
? # # # # .. w
D
nw w w ..
87 88 89 90

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