TE15 Lithuanian Honey Cake

Sjón

how the eyeless head rattled when they lifted the man’s body onto the stretcher ...

THE THIRD WOMAN joins THE FIRST and THE SECOND WOMEN nd with her help THE THREE WOMEN find the man’s rattling skull in the body/heap. they slowly lift it up, hold it in the air, start playing with it. THE MAN appears at the left of the stage as if he were a spirit summoned to a seance. he is dressed in a hospital gown, pale in the face, somnambulic in his behaviour and song.

NARRATOR

In the autopsy a soft, black, sea-polished rock was found inside the man’s skull instead of his brain ...”

THE THREE WOMEN start shaking the skull more vigorously as if it were a ritual percussion instrument. THE MAN starts shaking his head in beat with the rattling skull.

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