Cabinet of Curiosities (prelude, song and reprise)

Prelude

‘Cabinet of curiosities – a place where you could see more strange and wonderful things in one room than if you devoted an entire lifetime to travel.’
‘Every cabinet of curiosities was a miniature universe and each collector curated his own individual version.’
‘The cabinet was meant to be a mirror to the world, an instrument of knowledge. But wonder can very quickly turn into an obsession.’

Song:

‘It’s, it’s a part of me, a section of my brain or my understanding of the world…’
‘This is a mirror! Held up to you!’

Incredibly sick shit (x4)

Bridge
‘There’s that urge to categorise and understand the world. But there’s that equally strong urge to experience wonder, for the world to defy our understanding.’

Sickness (x3)
Incredibly sick shit
Sickness (x3)
Incredibly sick shit

Reprise

‘So in some ways these dusty eccentric antique collections tell us a story that is startlingly modern – that there is no singular truth about the world, just many different stories seen through many different eyes.’