Stories before the cold
''The trilogy''
Explanation:
Melody of kin was founded to tell stories .
Its first season: Stories before the cold
Contains three plays each exploring a different scale of immortality:
Mr. Dream - Born with the first light
Silicone eyes - An android at the end of his life.
The Oak on Tighnasith hall - A family haunted across decades/
Together, they ask : What do we leave behind?
The Three plays
Silicone Eyes
In the crushing depths of an underwater study, an ancient Android sits reading, laughing, surviving. He is the guardian of centuries of family legacies. He now faces memories final purge. As the groans of the metal creep in and the silence of the sea sets. His devoted assistant uncovers a profound truth. One that makes both men- one metal and one bone, question what it really means to have been alive. Genre - Philosophical sci-fi/ Intimate two-hander/ Lyrical realism with apocalyptic undertones. Runtime - Approx. 90-120 minutes Status: In development.
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Mr. Dream
At the end of time, when the stars grow cold, a lone storyteller steps from the dark. He is Mr. Dream — born with the universe, burdened with every story ever told. Before the final light fades, he will share three dreams: of men, monsters, and the fragile line between the two. A darkly comic, soul-stirring journey through myth, memory, and madness — where even gods crave to be seen. Genre: Poetic monologue / Dark comedy / Mythology Runtime: 70 minutes Status: Debut at Edinburgh fringe 2026.
The Oak
On the private estate of the McLaren family, a lone oak has stood longer than anyone can remember. At first glance it is only a tree — old, voiceless, and still beneath an endless sky. But when the family’s buried trauma begins to resurface, we are drawn into a world where past and present blur. A boy, a man, and an old soul meet beneath its branches — in a place where time no longer matters. The oak remembers what they cannot, and through its roots, they begin to understand what it means to be forgiven. Genre: Dramatic ritual play / Non-linear family drama/ Poetic naturalism. Runtime: Approx. 100 Minutes Status: In - Development.
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What is the Philosophy Behind the
Trilogy?
The universe is dying. Not today, not tomorrow, but inevitably - moving towards a place where all stars have burned out and nothing remains but frozen darkness.
Before that final cold, every story we've ever know, told or heard, will have vanished. Every dream we had, every memory, every moment of human connection - gone.
"Stories Before the Cold"
is our defiance against that ending.
These plays exist in the liminal space between warmth and extinction.
They're all each and everyone racing against their own form of cold - loneliness? forgetting? the silence after loss? We tell these stories now, while there's still heat, still breath, still the chance of being witnessed.
