SCENE 5 - store attic

Linocut, 50 x 37.5 cm.

 

Stage with printed drop, image size 1050 x 705 cm.

 

Linocut 'tarpaulin', 43 x 38 cm. Print size: 400 x 365 cm.

 

 

Props: Positive- and negative image of the icon of Boris and Boris' ghost respectively.

 

Katerina is in bed with Sergei, who is half asleep. She asks him to love her passionately. Sergei says he will not love her unless he can marry her.

 

At the same time the ghost of her murdered father-in-law appears.

 

Zinovi, her absent husband, arrives unexpectedly. Though Sergei hides, he soon suspects trickery and accuses his wife of infidelity.

 

Katerina knocks him over and strangles him with the help of Sergei who deals him a final blow to the head. The lovers take Zinovi's body down to the cellar and bury it under some stones.