NURZUR ANSICHT NICHTFÜRVERTRIEBAUFFÜHRUNGEN DURCH MUSIKUNDBÜHNE www.musikundbuehne.de

YOU WERE ALSO A CHILD ON A WOMAN´S KNEE, BUT THE DAYS AHEAD YOU WILL NEVER SEE.

HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH.

GUNVOR: I´m going back to Biri again.

RUTH: No! Stay here with me!

GUNVOR: Ruth, you need not despair.

RUTH:

I AM OFTEN DESPAIRING. THEN MY LIFE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TERRIBLE ANIMAL SO RIDICULOUS TO TRY TO FIGHT BACK. OR PERHAPS: LIKE A DARK NIGHT... AND I HAVE NO MORE LIGHT.

(GUNVOR embraces RUTH, who is clinging to her as in unspeakable horror. PATIENT 3 enters, with heavy steps. Then Patient 2. They are standing watching GUNVOR and RUTH, who dissolve their embrace.)

PATIENT 3: NOW I AM NOT ABLE TO HAVE A CHILD.

GUNVOR:

(Hurrying a bit:) I will write to you. And we we´ll go hitchhiking in the spring.

(They part. PATIENT 2+3 is following GUNVOR as she leaves, PATIENT 2 humming her theme. We see JUDITH and the MOTHER in a separate light in the background.

RUTH is in her bed, thinking a letter to them. The MOTHER is reading the letter.)

THE MOTHER:

(Reading:) Dear Musch; if you love me, then you also have to love Gunvor.

(RUTH is sketching. Then stops.)