“On the stage, we see the story of DOL, a little girl of the zoo. The zoo is populated with the huge silhouettes of countless exotic beast. The bars of the zoo are semi-transparent tyger stripes.

DOL lives with her zookeeper father, DELMAS. Instead of working like a good zookeeper should, DELMAS has receded into a world of his own. His thoughts are so distant as to appear absent.

DOL pleads with her father to return to her world – the world of tending beasts in the here and now.

DELMAS robotically lifts up an old animal collar from some straw. Something black and oily drips from the collar onto his hands. This goo strangely galvanizes the entranced DELMAS; he abandons his daughter to rush off to a meat-lined cottage.”

(Film treatment of Maldoror: Tygers p. 169 in Guy Maddin’s From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings.)