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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. 🔊

(She has moved away from him, now she speaks in a different tone of voice.)

(And she adds, turning away and in a hard voice.)

No one, boss. We drew lots right away and then I came here. 🔊

Ah! the fucking cheek of her. I turn my back for a moment, I ask for a smoke, and before I've got time to light up and say thank you she's back again scraping away like a little hyena. 🔊

I light up, I say thank you, I turn around and there she is scraping away with her bare hands. In the middle of the day! Guess she must have thought we wouldn't notice her. 🔊

Because your Polynices, this wailing ghost and this body that's rotting away surrounded by its guards and all this other emotional stuff that's got you so excited, it's just a political intrigue. 🔊

Yes, I do know what I'm saying. It's you that can't hear me. I'm talking to you from too far away, from a place you can't enter with your wrinkles, your accumulated wisdom, your fat stomach. 🔊

looks at him, then backs away crying.

Antigone is at the far end of the tomb. She has hanged herself with her belt of blue and green and red cords, which looks like a child's necklace on her, and Haemon, kneeling, holds her in his arms and groans, his face buried in her gown. They move away another block and Creon can finally enter. You see his white hair in the shadows in the depths of the cave. He tries to raise up Haemon, he begs him. 🔊

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