← The old lady who's knitting next to the nurse who raised the two young girls is Eurydice, Creon's wife. 🔊✎
← Well, there you are. Now I'm going to tell you two more things. And when I've said them, you have to leave without asking me any questions. 🔊✎
← I swear it, Haemon. I swear it on the head of the little boy we would have had in our dreams, us two, the only little boy I'll ever have. 🔊✎
← So we were on watch. We had the two a.m. shift, the worst one. You know what it's like, just when the night's almost up. 🔊✎
← Boss, I got two kids, one of them's just a baby. 🔊✎
← 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... 🔊✎
← The two other guards leave, followed by the chorus. ✎
← What do you mean, two animals? 🔊✎
← Two animals can huddle together to stay warm. I'm all alone. 🔊✎
← I have lain them down to sleep next to each other, finally! They are washed now and rested. They just look a little pale, but so calm. Two lovers on the morning after their first night. It is over for them. 🔊✎