165 - Red memories

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athina Kehagias

The apartment of the terrorists. One night.
The curtain rises in silence. Dora and Kaliayev are on the stage, motionless. Seated around a table, they are holding their hands, illuminated by candle.

Kaliayev, pensive
I still see them. Every night…

Dora
They were here, all together. All the workers of St. Petersburg.

Kaliayev, din a immed state
United within the sorrow, of miserableness, equipped with the simplicity of goodness, deprived of everything.

Dora, look at no direction
With their wives and children near them, with Pope-Capone as a guide, holding banners, pictures and portraits of the imperial family.

Kaliayev
Combining the incompatible, creating the incomprehensible; as our nation have always done.

Dora
They presented themselves at the Winter Palace in order to hand over a request to the “father tsar” …

Kaliayev, continuing the phrase and changing the tone of voice
… with childhood innocence . Time. Then the soldiers of death put out this flame of humanity.

Dora, emotionally moved
They killed hundreds of those poor souls.

Kaliayev
What can we do?

Dora, determined
To suffer with them.

Kaliayev
But what could compassion do in front of crime?

Dora
We were unarmed, helpless in front of fate.

Kaliayev
I would like to cover this wounded snow with my body.

Dora, hiding her eyes
My God, all this blood!

Kaliayev
A red sun fallen upon the soil.

Dora
But what coyld we do?

Kaliayev, feverish
To die for them!

Silence.