What is on the tree? A hat he puts on at the end?

set

props

costumes:

... as naked in picture frames (doorframes).

changes in her: 1 --> 2 --> 3 (as three different couples)

John's 3 phazes = getting "formal"?

Dancers -- dresses?

She comes in the red dress (ready to strike dead, his book)?

Would he trade it -- the book for her love.

What boxes he is packing his office stuff? "Frozen chickens"? Boxes after liqueer bottles?