Isadora by Amelia Gray

Author:Amelia Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ACT TWO. Curtain lifts to a scene of indiscriminate dead. Niobe wanders across the slaughter in silence. She turns to avoid a half-quiver of arrows fatally lodged in her oldest son, as though touching them might compound their grievous harm. The gods, of course, are gone.

She holds her own body as if she could lift herself from the scene. She slaps her own face, makes a fist and strikes herself. She tries to lift her oldest son, but he is too large. He slips from her hands, falling the kind of fall she feared from the day she first held him. She tries again, lifting one arm then the other, taking her boy up and dragging him away. She braids her oldest daughter’s hair together with her own and drags her upstage.

This is the price of pride, the balance paid by love. Niobe continues like this for some time and has moved half of the bodies almost entirely off the stage by the time the audience takes pity and checks her into a sanitarium.

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