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The Tale of Hermit Cooper

by Nick Worrall

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The soundtrack to the film 'The Tale of Hermit Cooper' yet to exist.
Full artwork is included in download. Anyone paying £5 or more will be sent a personalised homemade CD direct from Nick (if requested, along with an address).

ACT ONE

Scene 1: Mountain

Hermit Cooper’s home, high on a mountain. Here a longing for adventure has been slowly growing inside him. He decides to end his long isolation.

Scene 2: Farm

Below the mountain is a small farm where he sees a beautiful girl working in the fields and is immediately enraptured, the family is not welcoming of this bedraggled stranger and he is chased off.

Scene 3: Wolf

Hermit Cooper is driven crazy by the sight of the girl and tries to profess his love whilst keeping out of sight of the rest of her family.

Scene 4: Field

Seeing it is hopeless Hermit Cooper leaves the vicinity of the farm, marvelling at the simple beauty of the hedgerows as he travels aimlessly towards the treeline in the distance.

Scene 5: Forest

He enters a dark and foreboding forest teeming with life that simultaneously enthrals and frightens him.

Scene 6: Meeting

Confronted by forest-dwelling people led by a shamanic character, he is persuaded to drink a strange brew.

Scene 7: Mind

The potion kicks in and he is taken away on a mind-bending journey including visions of the future and dire thoughts of his own mortality. The shamanic figure reads from a book of alchemy.


ACT TWO

Scene 1: City

After waking alone but with a newfound sense of purpose, he leaves the forest and enters a wondrous yet filthy City.

Scene 2: Party

There is a party in the city to celebrate the arrival of high summer and the streets are filled with revellers.

Scene 3: Pauper

He meets a poor woman living in abject poverty in the back alleys and gutters of the city. She longs to see the King and hopes he will grant her relief.

Scene 4: Procession

The poor woman, Hermit Cooper and many others make their way to the palace to se the King make his annual appearance to the masses.

Scene 5: King

The King tells us of his outlook on life and being a King. He chooses Hermit Cooper to be the one peasant granted access to his palace as is the annual custom.

Scene 6: Dungeon

Hermit Cooper displeases the King by pointing out his obscene riches compared to the poverty of some of the citizens of his city. He is thrown in gaol and contemplates his fate. He is amazed to be contacted through the dank walls by the girl from the farm, who has heard of his predicament and breaks him out.


ACT THREE

Scene 1: Devotion

Hermit Cooper sings to the girl in an expression of his deep affection for her, grateful for her presence in his hour of need.

Scene 2: Run

The pair flee through the city pursued by the King’s guards in fear of being betrayed by the scared city dwellers.

Scene 3: Darkness

They are taken into the dark tunnels under the city by a mysterious character with no name, on the promise of being led to a passage under the city walls.

Scene 4: Alone

It is time for the girl to return to her family, he must make his way from the city and continue his adventure without her.


ACT FOUR

Scene 1: Road

Hermit Cooper joins a small caravan of travellers and sets of on a long road, to where he doesn’t know.

Scene 2: Shore

Hermit Cooper, having left the main caravan once well clear of the city patrols, arrives at a wild stretch of coastline and studies the seaweed across the rocks, and stares out to sea wondering what comes next.

Scene 3: Ocean

Having found a small boat with a tattered sail he sets off into the wild blue yonder and in his mind, he converses with the ocean itself and discusses his lot.

Scene 4: End

The boat is rocked by mighty waves and taken far from land until it is lost in ominous fog and in his delirium he imagines he is beset by sea monsters with evil intent. The boat and its sole occupant are never to be heard of again.

Thus ends the tale.

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released October 8, 2021

Written, performed, recorded, mixed, mastered by Nick Worrall

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Paintings by David Bez

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