Scene 1

• [atmosphere of decay]
• [red-stained package]

  [He heaves the package at her]

  [She laughs breathlessly]
• [Incongruous to this setting]

  [Something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth]
• 'I've got to keep hold of myself!' -B
• 'Stella for star!'

  'My baby'

  'Precious lamb'
• 'I won't be looked at in the merciless glare!'
• [Nervously tamping cigarette] 'I was on the verge of lunacy!' -Blanche
• 'I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can't be alone!' - B
• 'When he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby...' - Stella
• 'I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, nearly died for it!' -B
• [the music of the blue piano grows louder]
• 'The long parade to the graveyard!' - B

  'The grim reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep!' - B
• 'In bed with your - Polak!' -B
• 'You didn't dream, but I saw! Saw! Saw!' -B
• [animal joy is implicit in all his movements]
• [The centre of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it]
• [power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens]

  [gaudy seed bearer]
• [his car, his radio, everything that is his]
• [the music of the polka rises up, faint in the distance]
• 'the boy - the boy died.'
• [Her head falls into her arms]