Episode V: In Alexandria, Ocipita departs for Assyria with a new husband. Cementeria and Quasimodo reunite. They go to the local temple to assume the identities of the gods, Isis and Osiris. They re-enact an incident in which Osiris visits his brother, Set, and Set dismembers Osiris.
Song: I’m Calling to You
Cementeria, as Isis, reassembles Osiris’s body without a phallus.
She resurrects him with one she plants on herself.
Episode VI: Alone in the servant’s quarters before a pile of ashes, Quasimodo understands his dismemberment to be a recurrent passion play performed for tourists. He calls for Cementeria to leave with him. Instead, Ocipita reappears as Isis and her new husband appears as Osiris.
Cementeria rises from the ashes.
END: Equipped with the source of all myths of resurrection, a romantically enlightened Quasimodo and Cementeria return to their Victorian home in a most exclusive "Ordered World" courtyard within the Pearly Gate and celebrate their friendship ("Make a Wish a Word").
Performance photographs by Robert Strain of (in order of
appearance) Jamie Cosnowsky, Kerrigan Webb, Tyr Throne, Andrew Uhlenhopp, Lis
Dery, Charles Herald, Steve Espinola, Dan Emery, Erika Belle, Colette Bryce
& Debra Wakefield.
09/02/99 6:24:07 PM -- moved to the Cinema VII Website, July 15, 2000.