Antigonick by Anne Carson

Author:Anne Carson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2015-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

[enter Antigone]

Chorus:

I can no longer restrain the stream of tears

when I see Antigone here passing

to the room where we all

go in the end

Antigone:

Hegel says people want to see their lives on stage

look at me

people

I go my last road

I see my last light

look

Death who gathers all of us into his old bent arms in the end

is gathering me

but I am still alive

no wedding

no wedding song

no wedding chamber

yet I shall lie in the bed of the river of Death

while I am still alive

Chorus:

yes but won’t you win glory

won’t you be praised

it’s not as if you’re dying of disease or war

you chose to live autonomous

and so you die

the only one of mortals to go down to Death alive

Antigone:

are you mockers of me

you grabbing old men

are you laughers at me

though I’m not yet gone

O springs of the rivers of Thebes

O reaches of the plains of Thebes

bear me witness

no one shed a tear for me

as I went to my strange new grave

for I’m a strange new kind of inbetween thing aren’t I

not at home with the dead nor with the living

Chorus:

you’re clumsy it’s true

clumsy as your father

remember how Brecht had you do the whole play with a door strapped to your back

Antigone:

oh I don’t want to talk about him

or him

or him

all that plowing in the dark

I go to them now

one final intersection

O my brother you have despoiled me

Chorus:

you despoiled yourself

piety is nice but authority is authority

why must you always make your own laws

Antigone:

unwept

unwed

unloved

I go

[enter Kreon]

Kreon:

take her

we are clean of this girl

Antigone:

O tomb

O bridal chamber

O house in the ground forever

I was an organized person and this is my reward

I organized your deaths, my dear ones

all of you father mother brother when you died

you ask would I have done it for a husband or a child

my answer is no I would not

a husband or a child can be replaced

but who can grow me a new brother

is this a weird argument

Kreon thought so

but I don’t know the words go wrong they call my piety impiety

I’m alone on my insides

I died long ago

who suffers more

I wonder who suffers more

Chorus:

your soul is blowing apart

Kreon:

get a move on

Antigone:

next word

is death

Kreon:

DEATH

Antigone:

O Thebes

O gods

O look

I go

I’m the last one left in a line of kings

I was caught

in an act of perfect piety

[exit Antigone]

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