The Heterodoxy Club New York City East Village 1922. A club for unorthodox women exploring alternative lifestyles: left-wing thinking, vegetarianism and free love.
Tonight's enquiry
An Instructive, Amorous and Amusing Musical Evening including Songs, Scenes and Interludes, illuminating an odd and unsettling event in the annals of Modern Psychiatry : The night Dr. Sigmund Freud fainted in the arms of Dr. Carl Jung
Only Love Knows Love
WITH FIERCE CONVULSION OF DELIGHT
MY BODY ACHES FOR YOU TONIGHT
HOW IN EACH OTHERS ARMS ENTHRALLED
WE'LL LIE CONFOUNDED AND DISSOLVING
BODIES MINGLING
BODIES BLENDING
SOULS IN MORTAL FIRE
DARTING FIERCE AND FLAMING KISSES
TEMPEST OF DESIRE
AND A VOICE RINGS OUT FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE
ONLY LOVE KNOWS LOVE
AND LOVE KNOWS ONLY LOVE
KNOWS ONLY LOVE KNOWS LOVE
YOU HAVE POISONED ME WITH YOUR MADNESS
FOR YOU ARE AS MAD FOR LOVE AS ME
TOUCHING FACE AND FINGER-TIPS AND LIPS
OUR EYES ARE WHISPERING UNSPEAKABLE
UNMENTIONABLE THINGS
DARTING FIERCE AND FLAMING KISSES
TEMPEST OF DESIRE
BODIES MINGLING
BODIES BLENDING
SOULS IN MORTAL FIRE
AND A VOICE RINGS OUT FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE
ONLY LOVE KNOWS LOVE
AND ONLY LOVE KNOWS
ONLY LOVE KNOWS LOVE
David Van Belle and Jamie Konchak Alberta Theatre Projects
Love is an Abstraction
Onalea Gilbertson, Duval Lang, Davaid Van Belle, Jamie Konchak Alberta Theatre Projects
MISS J
LOVE IS AN ABSTRACTION
A DEEP IRRATIONAL EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT
AN INTENSE NEUROTIC AND PSYCHOTIC STATE
A STRATEGY
A GUARANTEE THAT WHEN A MAN AND WOMAN MATE
THEY STAY TOGETHER
IN THIS CRUEL AND HARSH ENVIRONMENT
LOVE IS SIMPLY
AN EVOLUTIONARY CHEMICAL REACTION
A BIOLOGICAL BALLET
ONE CANNOT SEE IT ANY OTHER WAY
IT'S NOTHING BUT THE WILL OF NATURE
AND WE MUST OBEY
MISS O OH NO -
MISS J LOVE IS SIMPLY AN ABSTRACTION
MISS O THAT CAN'T BE SO
MISS J A DEEP IRRATIONAL ATTATCHMENT
MISS O LOVE'S NO ILLUSION-
MISS J A CHEMICAL CONFUSION
MISS O OH NO
MISS J JUST AN ANIMAL ATTRACTION
MISS O THAT CAN'T BE SO
MISS J A BIOLOGICAL REACTION
MISS O IF I'M JUST AN ANIMAL WHY IS IT I FEEL
A LOVE LIKE I WANNA CRY
WITHOUT YOU DEEP INSIDE-
A PART- OF ME- WOULD SURELY DIE
THE WAY YOU MAKE ME LAUGH
THE WAY I WATCH YOU SLEEP
THE WAY YOU MAKE ME SIGH
THE SECRET THAT WE KEEP
THE WAY- WE CAN TALK FOR H-OURS
OVER SILLY SENTIMENTAL THINGS
MISS J
POETRY ON TATTERED PAGES
SENTIMENTAL AND ROMANTIC NOTIONS
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES-
JUST THINLY VEILED ATTEMPTS-
TO MASK THE CARNAL URGE
WITH NOBLE SOUNDING WORDS
TO SATISFY OUR DARKEST CRAVINGS
WITH FLOWERY EMPTY PHRASES
UNISON:
EVERYONE BECOMES A FOOL
ONCE LOVE GETS A HOLD OF YOU
EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW YOU OUGHTN'T YOU DO
AND EVEN THOUGH YOU TRY TO FIGHT IT
YOU JUST CAN'T DENY
THE FEELING THAT COMES OVER YOU
MISS J
LOVE IS SIMPLY
AN EVOLUTIONARY
CHEMICAL REACTION
A BIOLOGICAL BALLET
ONE CANNOT SEE IT
ANY OTHER WAY
MISS J
THIS IS WHAT LOVE MEANS
MISS O
THIS IS WHAT LOVE MEANS
repeat
THIS IS WHAT LOVE MEANS TO ME
MISS O
LOVE LIKE I WANNA CRY
WITHOUT YOU DEEP INSIDE
A PART-OF ME WOULD SURELY DIE
THE WAY YOU MAKE ME LAUGH
THE WAY I WATCH YOU SLEEP
THE WAY YOU MAKE ME SIGH
THE SECRETS THAT WE KEEP
THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE
THE CONTINENT IS BATHED
IN THE BLAZING LIGHT OF REASON
SUPERSTITION HAS BEEN BANISHED
FROM OUR DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD
WE HAVE CHARTED HEAVENS GLORY
WE HAVE MAPPED THE OCEAN FLOOR
WE HAVE OPENED UP OUR BODIES
AND FOUND OUT WE'RE NOTHING MORE THAN-
MACH- INES
NOTHING BUT MACHINES
NOTHING BUT THE WORKINGS
OF A SOULLESS BRAIN IT SEEMS
OPERATING CAUSALLY
IMMEDIATELY INVARIABLY
NOTHING BUT AN ANIMAL
MECHANICAL MACHINE
THE WORLD IS AGOG WITH THE
WONDERS OF TECHNOLOGY
THE FINEST SYSTEMATIC
MODERN METH -O- DOL -O -GIES
SOON WE'LL CONQUER DEATH'S WHITE COFFIN
SOON WE'LL KNOCK DOWN HEAVEN'S DOOR
AND WE'LL HEAR NO ANGEL SCOFFING
CUZ WE'RE NOTHING MORE THAN
MACH- INES
NOTHING BUT MACHINES
NOTHING BUT THE WORKINGS
OF A SOULLESS BRAIN IT SEEMS
AND THOUGH WE TRY TO HIDE IT
TRY TO SCRUB OUR ENGINES CLEAN
SOMETHING'S LURKING IN THE SHADOWS
SOMETHING HAUNTS US FROM OUR DREAMS
(THERE'S) A GHOST IN THE MACHINE
FULL OF SEETHING EXCITATIONS
UN -CI -VIL -IZED:
SEX U AL LIBIDINAL DESIRE
IN- STINCT- U- AL
NO SENSE OF MORAL CONSEQUENCE
DRIVEN BY A PRIMAL NEED-
A HUNGER TO SURVIVE
BUT HERE WE ARE WE'RE LIVING
IN THESE MODERN TIMES