← in a strange voice, after a silence. ✎
← After a silence, in her little girl voice. ✎
← And the pain? We'd have to feel it getting worse and worse until it gets to the point where you can't stand it anymore, it would have to stop, but it wouldn't, it would just get worse, like a voice going higher and higher... I can't do it! I can't! 🔊✎
← (Another silence, then she continues in a different tone of voice.) ✎
← turns her head away a little and then adds in a hard voice. ✎
← (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.) ✎
← Everyone was there. The schoolkids had raided their piggy-banks to buy wreaths. Old men, pretending they were moved, were telling exaggerated stories in trembling voices about the good brother, the son of Oedipus, the prince royal. I gave a speech too. 🔊✎
← 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... 🔊✎