Tigellinus Monologue from Nero

From Nero by Stephen Phillips

male · dark · 54 sec

(Looking after ACTE.) She is a Christian! (BURRUS: Tigellinus!) I Come from the theatre. For three hours have sat In the first bench, and feared to wink or cough. The Emperor sang, and had for audience The flower of Rome. In torment did we sit, Nobles and consuls, captains, senators, Bursting to laugh and aching but to smile. Higher and higher rose the Emperor's voice, But no man ventured to relax his lips. And all around were those who peered or crept, Inspecting each man's face, noting his look. To sigh was treason and to laugh was death, And yet none dared be absent: how were you Excused?

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