← And as soon as the curtain goes up, she feels that she is moving away at breakneck speed from her sister Ismene, who's chatting and laughing with a young man, from all of us, who are sitting here safely watching her, from all of us who don't have to die this evening. 🔊✎
← As soon as Ismene has left, Creon enters through another door, with his page. ✎
← Why? So that I'll cry, so that I'll beg for mercy, so that I'll swear anything you want, and then try again as soon as the pain has gone? 🔊✎
← And as soon as he was with the Argives, the assassination attempts started against your father, against an old man who hadn't decided to die and hand over his kingdom. One attempt after another, and when we caught one of the hitmen they always ended up saying they'd been paid by him. Though not just by him, I might add. 🔊✎