Miss Julie and Other Plays

by Strindberg August

SIMOON

CHARACTERS

BISKRA, an Arabian girl.

YOUSEF, her lover.

GUIMARD, a lieutenant in the Zouaves.

SCENE I

In Algeria, at the present time.

An Arabian marabout (cemetery) with a sarcophagus on the ground. Praying mats here and there; on the right a charnel-house. Door at the back with porch and curtains; window apertures in the wall at the back. Small sand hillocks here and there on the grcrund; an uprooted aloe; a palm-tree; a heap of esparto grass.

[BISKRA enters with a burnous hood drawn down over her face, and a guitar on her back, throws herself down on a mat end then prays with arms crossed over her breast. The wind blows outside.]

Biskra. La ilaha all allah.