Act 1, Scene 4 Flashcards
Walk up to stage
Thank You.
Tony: You’re on your own now. Just be careful, that’s all Ground floor.
Thank you.
Rodolpho: This will be the first house I ever walked into in America! Imagine! She said they were poor!
Ssh! Come
Eddie: You Marco?
Marco.
Marco crosses to Beatrice
Are you my cousin?
Beatrice: Beatrice. This is my husband, Eddie. Catherine, my sister Nancy’s daughter.
My brother. Rodolpho.
I want to tell you now Eddie - when you say go, we will go.
Eddie: Oh, no…
I see it’s a small house, but soon, maybe, we can have our own house.
Catherine: Come here, sit down. I’ll get you some soup.
We ate on the ship. Thank you.
Eddie: Yiz have a nice trip?
The ocean is always rough. But we are good sailors.
Eddie: No trouble gettin’ here?
No. The man brought us. Very nice man.
Eddie: No. But as long as you owe them money, they’ll get you plenty of work. Yiz ever work on the piers in Italy?
Piers? Ts! - no.
Beatrice: So what kinda work did yiz do?
Whatever there is, anything.
Eddie: Still bad there, heh?
Bad, yes.
Eddie: So what’re you wanna do, you gonna stay here or you wanna go back?
Go back?
Eddie: Well, you’re married, ain’t you?
Yes. I have three children.
Beatrice: Three! I thought only one.
Oh, no. I have three now. Four years, five years, six years.
Beatrice: Ah… I bet they’re cryin’ for you already, huh?
What can I do? The older one is sick n his chest. My wife - she feeds them from her own mouth. I tell you the truth, if I stay there they will never grow up. They eat the sunshine.
Beatrice: My God. So how long you want to stay?
With your permission, we will stay maybe a few months.
Eddie: She don’t mean in this house, she means in the country.
Oh. Maybe four, five, six years, I think.
Beatrice: Yeah, but maybe you’ll get enough, you’ll be able to go back quicker.
I hope. I don’t know.
to Eddie: I understand it’s not so good here either.
Eddie: On the average a whole year? Maybe - well, it’s hard to say, see. Sometime we lay off, there’s no ships three, four weeks.
Three, four weeks! Ts!
