ALICE: You always used to say that when we were children. Do you remember, when we were children and said we'd marry each other! [Laughs.] You were shy, of course --
KURT [earnestly]: Alice!
ALICE: Yes, you were. And it suited you. You see -- there are coarse women who like shy men, and there --are said to be shy men who like coarse women. You liked me a little even the. Didn't you?
KURT: I don't know where I am. What are you?
ALICE: An actress who isn't scared by your conventions, and is a woman! And now I am free, free, free! Turn your back and I'll change my dress
She begins to unbutton her dress. KURT rushes towards her, seizes her in his arms, lifts her high into the air and bites her on the throat. She screams. Then he throws her from him to the sofa and runs out left.
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JUDITH: Do you think I'm a child?
ALLAN: Sometimes you're a delightful child, sometimes a scheming woman. You seem to have chosen me to be your sheep.
JUDITH: You are a sheep, so I shall protect you.
ALLAN [gets up]: A wolf is always a bad sheepdog.
Strindberg (2000) "The Dance of Death" from Plays:Two. Methuen Drama: London.
