← Death is there, and treason and despair, all ready to use, and the outbursts, and the storms, and the silences, all the silences: the silence when the headsman raises his axe at the end, the silence at the beginning when the two lovers are naked in front of each other for the first time in the dark bedroom, without daring to move, the silence when the crowd's screams burst out around the conqueror and it's like a film where the sound has been cut, all those open mouths with nothing coming out, all that commotion which is just a picture, and the conqueror, who has already been conquered, alone in the middle of his silence... 🔊✎
← He start pacing up and down. For a moment, we only hear the sound of his steps. ✎
← Fearful news. They had finished putting Antigone into her cave. They had not quite finished rolling the last blocks of stone into place when Creon and those around him hear groans suddenly coming from the tomb. Everyone stops talking and listens, because it is not Antigone's voice. It is a new sound coming from the depths of the cave... 🔊✎