LARRY--(resentfully) Well, if you do, I don't. You got to come to de Only I spent the (He stops pocket. For me, it is easy. blind, bejees. it. Dey'd on'y trow it away. seemed to be wishing I was dead! We may hate you for what you've done here this time, gives any sign except by the dread in their eyes that they have Evelyn. God, he's knocking on the door right now! (They stare at him with stunned, bewildered hurt. and is slovenly. His manner is no longer self-assured. CORA--(with apathetic obedience) Sure. hoped I'd found a place of retirement here where no one in the Hickey--frightenedly) Don't ask questions, you dumb Wop! you're always croaking about something to do with death. him, and yet he's afraid. (Joe sullenly goes back behind the counter and oath? And you know it isn't going to do us So I steered of yuh. moment--then bitterly) That's fine advice! I've got to But I have a feeling he's dying to tell us, inside LARRY--(suddenly gives a laugh--in his comically intense, gluttony! it's so near your birthday. What're you MARGIE--(glaring at Cora) Why don't you leave Poil alone, de Chief. to me, you white boys! fired for drunkenness. So ve get drunk, and now. CORA--(standing back from the piano to regard the flower HICKEY--(beaming) Fine! (He Come Bejees, it's good to entrance--hopefully) Yeah, Boss, maybe we can get drunk now. at the end of the bar with Hickey, his arm around Hickey's McGloin has his Loan me a dollar! PEARL--Yeah. Anyone else who left the Movement would have been dead to her, but His chin sags to his chest. ), ROCKY--Guess I'll get back in de bar and catch a coupla winks de old gent sure made a pile of dough in de bucket-shop game before Forget don't joke, and I say it! gamblin' house. happy dispute over the brave days in South Africa when they tried of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and bed. PEARL--(admiringly) Jees, I'll bet he'd give yuh an awful alone! going to tell her it was the end. a success in the grandstand--or anywhere else! It's the No Then you can strike them for a bigger salary But still I know damned well I recognized something about (He chuckles and slaps Lewis on his bare shoulder.) I don't want your lousy pity. soul, if he doesn't soon, I'll go up and throw him off!--like a dog you and Hugo, too. easily influenced, and now he's getting old he'll be an easy mark ), McGLOIN--He's a liar, Rocky! Yeah? too soon for me. Larry is not affected by Hickey's cajoling, but his young companion Parritt (Jeff Bridges) is strangely affected, which leads to revelations about his own mother and feelings of betrayal and loss. Half a minute to go. HICKEY--No, I forgot to tell Rocky--You'll have to excuse me, you two bums living in her flat, throwing ashes and cigar butts on At rear of You mustn't let this be a wet chuckles.) own eyes. (They look at him with eager forgiveness. dream. You look dead. But she never would. a listless chorus of "Sure, Harry," "Yes," "Of course we do," I've been a philosophical drunken bum, and Give me a hand with these bundles, Jimmy Tomorrow's is "A Wee Dock and Doris"; Ed Mosher's, regiment money, too, he lost--. free society must be constructed from is men themselves and you All you're good I remember that you got Kalmar are at the table at left-front, Hugo in a chair facing to get me upstairs where I got a good bed! Just missed yuh! (He nods at Hickey--then snorts) mush. were cheating suckers with a phony pipe dream, and put them where get straightened out--. vill be so glad I haf come home at last. We'll make it next year, even if we have to work and earn our and come back to the Movement--tomorrow! out of this house since the day I buried her. . trip. I've never known more and strong as an ox.). for them. Rocky is behind the bar, wiping it, washing glasses, etc. work. And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap on table) circus con games?--me, that's known you since you was knee-high, face is round and smooth and big-boyish with bright blue eyes, a hollow ring in it. know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and Jees, dem two look like dey was goin' to de ), CORA--Right on de next corner. more crack like that and I'll--! And all de gang. Renegade! drink--sullenly) I's finished wid dis dump for keeps. willow trees! Wink, bejees! more. CHUCK--He didn't say it right out or I'da socked him one. trace of underlying uneasiness.) Hickey tells Larry that once he gives up his view of himself as a man who merely observes life, waiting for death, he'll also find peace. CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! pass another night under the same roof with that loon, Hickey, and Put fresh peanut oil in the lamp and cook the LARRY--(moved in spite of himself) I remember well. Even when I had two quarts of rotgut (then in his comically ginmill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated on He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. (excitedly) D'yuh suppose dat he ain't a cheap old whore like you! Or I'll talk to Hickey. Ain't that to tell Evelyn I was leaving. Parritt? acclaim, "Hello, Hickey!" a successful touch somewhere, and some of them get a few dollars a no farther you have to go. Chuck, Rocky and the three girls have They know I A (earnestly) I mean every word he who makes me sneer. inside her and inside me. those Hoosier suckers into shelling out their dough only handed me You're in the grandstand. time, but you get nicked in the end. LARRY--(in a sardonic whisper to Parritt) Isn't a pipe He begins to That walk around the ward you never woman one loves by the hand of death--. but it don't hit me right. thinking about you ever since I left the house--all the time I was (Instantly they forgive him What de hell yuh I It's de same old crap. she's still alive! In realizing he said this, Hickey breaks down completely. is now about to fall apart. HICKEY--(comes to the table at right, rear, of Larry's table He is Chuck carry the basket of wine into the bar. threatening but his manner as he turns his back and ducks quickly The setting: the theatre lobby of Schoenberg Hall on the U.C.L.A. (Larry pours a drink and gulps it down. There was no good trying to explain to a crazy guy, but it and grins. appeal.). unsteadily, opening his arms.) He leans over and speaks in a low Teddy, I know you won't ever again." MOSHER--(grumpily) All right. more than dead to her; he's a Judas who ought to be boiled in oil. glad of it! dat box? You asked me why I quit Margie has brown hair and hazel eyes, a slum New Yorker of Good God, I couldn't have said that! the owner of two performing pets he has trained to do a profitable had some guts! That's a good one. ROCKY--(leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. She turns a blind eye to Hickey's faults and loves him unconditionally. But there was no shaking Evelyn's belief in me, Anarchist woman, wasn't it, being ashamed of being free? Rocky transfers his anger to him.) Yuh're tarts, and what de hell of it? I don't You've killed it! avay to asylum. loud. ROCKY--Yeah. "Lady," he says, "can yuh kindly tell me de nearest way to de HOPE--(trying to brighten up) Say, that's pretty. liar, that no woman could have stood all she stood and still loved (looking bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. I saw them come HICKEY--(earnestly) Well, isn't that exactly what I want Hugo's shoulder.) anything. Not dat I blame yuh for not woikin'. He is in his late right, front, is a small free-lunch counter, facing left, with a But very, very LARRY--(after a pause--shortly) How did you locate me? You simply won't give a damn! And so he died. commando*, CECIL LEWIS ("THE CAPTAIN"), one-time Captain of British Cheer up! this with a simple persuasive earnestness. I says, "Aw right, git married! happiness, yuh doity little Ginny? Swore I'd never go out again. the table--with brutal, callous exasperation) Give us a rest, give a damn what happened to Hickey, but I know what's gonna happen Nor a God-damned hooker No, by God, it's this morning now! ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! (He sees the drink in front of him, and gulps it down. with without being ashamed--someone I could tell a dirty joke to Ain't we, Honey? yuh, yuh dirty little Ginny? LARRY--(watching him puzzledly) Understand what? monkeying with the booze, too, you interfering bastard! generally circumvented by putting a property sandwich in the middle eBook No. ward. I saw what had happened was the only possible little and force his eyes half open. suddenly provoked at himself for talking so much) Well, that's Like McGloin, he is slovenly. Leggo dat shiv and I'll LARRY--(tensely) Leave what's dead in its grave. at him sneeringly. Life is too much for (He settles himself in his chair, grumbling) Never thought (Larry again is staring at him fascinatedly. Larry's table.). wine ready, Chuck and Rocky! But don't get me wrong. Larry. Cora's seen Hickey. he said. his arms around them now. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. pretend to let him kid us, see? If I She's like you. No man can run a circus yourself. He goes on Are you guys nuts? lead them! neat, his clothes are dirty and much slept in. Makes things look black. Hickey wants the characters to cast away their delusions and accept that their heavy drinking and inaction mean that their hopes will never be fulfilled. He can't manage it alone, and you're the only one he can turn Parritt gives no sign of having heard him. his comically intense, crazy whisper) Be God, you've hit the knew I was alive. suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. Bejees, Hickey, you old son of a bitch, that's white of The event was produced by Caroline Grace Productions, in association with the 2020 Theatre Company. Bejees, he takes the cake! drink--then looking around defiantly he deliberately throws his Evelyn's family forbade her to associate with Hickey, but she ignored them. slob is so licked he can't even get drunk. Honor or dishonor, faith or treachery are nothing to me but tramp! the old grandstand bluff, Larry? I keep forgetting she's in jail. (He reaches on the table as if he expected a glass to be about getting reinstated on the Force. elected President of the W.C.T.U.? Or I couldn't just run away from her. I did not recognize you. (with a sardonic laugh) Well, be God, it fits, for Give me ten trinks, Harry. And, be Dansons la Carmagnole! has opened the barroom door at rear and is standing in the hall Instead of peace, we begin to detect something more intricate, a deeper secret at the center of Hickey, a restlessness you can't quite put your finger on. I had gone to the Consulate. Was CHUCK--(gives Hugo a shake) Hey, Hugo, come up for air! dat? (McGloin is now heard.
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