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Well, here we are. These people that you see here are about to act out the story of Antigone for you. 🔊

I'm not talking about other things... 🔊

That's the way it works out. What are we supposed to do about it? 🔊

Look, I've been thinking about it all night. I'm older than you. I think more than you do. 🔊

(He moves back, he is about to say something, she cries.)

Who have you talked to about this? 🔊

Obviously, you think I'm a pig, I get that, and I'm sure you think I have no poetry in my soul. But I care about you all the same, bad temper and all. 🔊

You're too sensitive to make a good tyrant, that's what it's about. But you're going to have to kill me soon all the same, you know you will, and that's what frightens you. A man who's frightened is so ugly. 🔊

(He has put his head in his hands. You feel he's about to give up).

I know you're going to say something bad about him! 🔊

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