two fingers of scotch... a long night
face down in the alley... blurred memories your own or someone else's from a grainy fifties detective film
Noir takes up position within the grimy genre
of Film-Noir. Its urban themes of identity, desire and obsession, make it a sibling work to my (at that timet unperformed) opera Rendez-vous. Noir's principal character, like that of Rendez-vous, is a low-life of ambiguous gender: perhaps a down and out detective who's taken one too many blows to the back of the head or maybe a femme fatale who's given too many. They are both inextricably linked to a client who they have never seen...at least not until now. In any case the tale in question - the invented fragments of a paranoid delusional or the faulty recollections of a failing consciousness, remains intentionally unclear
1. the stake-out
2. chase sequence with obstacles
3. a set-up
4. the alley-way [as viewed from above]
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