A song sung + written by Abigail Ory with guitar by Joshua Tazman. The lyrics are based off of the following passage from Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2)

"Whence is that knocking?
How is ’t with me when every noise appalls me?
What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."

Kings

Finale

This song is sung by the mother (Leandra De Los Santos) to convicts 105 & 106 as, after a series of wild and unfortunate events, they find themselves in prison yet again. With piano by Nick Ornstein.

Lullaby

Mr. T (Erik Zimmer), one of the ladies and gents, performs this song and monologue at a later party in an attempt to entertain a rich, corrupt mayor with difficult taste in comedy. With piano by Nick Ornstein.

Little Fool

This song is sung by an American soldier (Charmaine Lau) in Vietnam in the midst of falling bombs. With guitar by Erik Zimmer.

Madeline

This clapping game is sung and played by 105 & 106 (Sam Culbert and Alex Weyerhaeuser) as they sit together later on after the party.

We Are What We Are

This song is a painful soliloquy performed by heartbroken Miss O (Maddie Hurley) during the middle of the ladies and gentlemen's party. With piano by Nick Ornstein and violin by Nora Silva.

Miss O's Song

Later in the ladies and gentlemen's wild party, a dancer by the name of Miss Cake is unveiled (or rather, pops out of a cake) and performs this tune. With Miss Cake played by Jordie Hurley, piano by Nick Ornstein, drums by Abraham Beningson, and background vocals by Nick Ornstein and Abigail Ory.

Chicken Is He

This drinking song takes place in the middle of a wild party thrown and attended by the ladies and gentlemen (Chris Pappey, Hamilton Sawczuk, Erik Zimmer, Eliza Guion, Maddie Hurley, and Autumn Rasmussen). With piano by Nick Ornstein and drums by Abraham Beningson.

Unrequited Love

This song starts the show, as it opens on convicts 105 & 106 (played by Sam Culbert and Alex Weyerhaeuser) digging themselves out of jail with spoons.

Digging Song

Overture

This song is inspired by the impermanence of life and the world around us, and also the existential crisis I had last year. Lyrics by me:

The mountains they stand 
So mighty and tall
But if I go higher 
I'm going to fall

I'll stay at the base 
Where there's more air to breathe
And look out at the 
sea (sea, sea), the sea

The waves they erode 
As they lap at the shore
Each coming tide 
Takes a little bit more, oh

When you take the mountains 
Don't forget to take me
Back into the sea 
(sea, sea), the sea.

What I need is a current 
To take me away
To a place where I won't 
See the end of the day

If time doesn't find me, 
I'll have finally been freed
Freed by the sea 
(sea, sea), the sea.

By The Sea (feat. Tessa Awalt-Conley)

This song was the score to a multi-disciplinary live performance involving dance, film, and music. All vocals, music, and lyrics by me:

Have you ever felt breathless before?
Like you couldn't get the oxygen
Out of the air
In time to inhale some more?

Carbon creatures snaking 
Through my lungs,
Speaking in tongues

Of memory, of past.
I just don't know
How much longer
I can last like this

So in the morning
If you wake up and I'm not there,
Say a prayer
For me

Callie's Song (Empathy)

"Gabriel," or Abigail Ory, is a Boston-based artist who specializes in music, film, and talking more than most people.