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Tereus: It’s daylight at last. The revels are over. Time to go home.
Silence. No one moves.
We’re whitewashing the streets. All that wine. Poured like blood. It’s time for you to go home.
No one moves.
Stupefied? You should hold your wine better. You’ve had your revels. Go on, Stagger home. Procne, tell your women to go home.
Philomele is revealed. Hands bloodied. There is a silence.
[... … …]
End:
Tereus: How could I know what love was? Who was there to tell me?
Procne: Did you ask?
Tereus: Monsters. Fiends. I will kill you both.
Timberlake Wertenbaker, The Love of the Nightingale, in Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays 1, London, Faber and Faber, 1996, pp. 350-352.
Show review: The Love of the Nightingale in Washington, D.C.
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