Joe Benjamin
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 ACT I Scene 1 | Joe |
| I don't know. | Joe |
| I said I don't know. | Joe |
| Certainly I heard it go off. That's why I'm down here Close your bathrobe | Joe |
| Look! I can see it's open. Stop repeating everything. | Joe |
| I can hear it. Close your bathrobe. Ben, answer the phone. | Joe |
| I'm going to look outside. | Joe |
| That's why I'm looking. That's the whole point of it. Close your robe. Answer that. | Joe |
| Close your bathrobe! | Joe |
| I think someone tried to break in. | Joe |
| I found footprints in the snow. | Joe |
| Close your robe, you want to catch cold? Go to bed. Look at you shivering. | Joe |
| Stop using God's name in vain. | Joe |
| No one got into the house. | Joe |
| There's snow outside. There would be footprints on the rug. | Joe |
| Those are mine! Wasn't I just in the snow? | Joe |
| What kind of a robber wears galoshes? No one got in. Tell them never mind. Everything's all right. I'm going to look around again. | Joe |
| Someone was here. He dropped these outside | Joe |
| Didn't I just find them? I can see they're eyeglasses. Well, whoever dropped them won't get far without them. They're a half-inch thick - I can't see two feet through them. | Joe |
| I'm not going to tell you about God's name or your bathrobe again ... I wouldn't be surprised if he broke both his legs. There are no footprints going down the stairs, so he must have jumped off the balcony. | Joe |
| First of all, he isn't a burglar because he didn't steal anything. And second of all, I don't want any police around here with your mother in the house. You know how frightened she is. | Joe |
| He can't see two feet ahead of him. | Joe |
| People don't break into houses if they have to crawl and feel around... How would the ever get away? A nineteen-room house with priceless paintings, irreplaceable antiques and a half a million dollars in jewelry, who's going to bother you? He's got other things on his mind. | Joe |
| Will you stop talking about rape and close your bathrobe? Ben, take her upstairs. Go to Bed, the both of you. | Joe |
| Wait a minute! Did you just hear something? ... listen! It in the house. | Joe |
| Be quiet! Listen ... footsteps! | Joe |
| Get back, both of you. Near the wall! | Joe |
| It's too late now. | Joe |
| How should I know the number? | Joe |
| Will you get back against the wall? Grab something! The minute I hit him, call the police! Stand back! Here he comes ... Close your bathrobe! Now? Now the phone rings? | Joe |
| Answer it! Answer it! | Joe |
| Who is it? | Joe |
| Sidney who? | Joe |
| no Sidney Lipton here. She's got the wrong number. | Joe |
| Yes, you will what? | Joe |
| Wrong? What could be wrong? | Joe |
| I said, "What could be wrong?" | Joe |
| Then take them out! | Joe |
| NOTHING'S WRONG! | Joe |
| Yes, rose. I'll tell him | Joe |
| I'LL TELL HIM! | Joe |
| Ahhh! | Joe |
| I wonder if that was David? | Joe |
| Not just now. Before. Maybe he came home late again, drunk as usual, forgot his key and tried to get in through the French door | Joe |
| All right, let's all go to bed. We've had enough for one night. I'll turn the alarm on. | Joe |
| No one's going to sneak around in our house. | Joe |
| Oh! David - so it was you. Thank God! Bum! Drunken bum! Rotten, good-for-nothing drunken bum! | Joe |
| It's David, the bum. | Joe |
| You want to scare us all to death? You want to give the three of us a heart attack? | Joe |
| Look at him! Can't even stand up straight. Thank God your mother can't see you, she's got her earplugs on. | Joe |
| Don't you talk back to me ... I thought it was burglar. You brother thought it was lunatic. You sister was expecting a rapist | Joe |
| Go to your room! You hear me? You think you can find your room in your condition? | Joe |
| Get him out! Get him out before I smack him one! | Joe |
| A lot of help you'd be if we had a prowler out ther now. | Joe |
| What! Someone's out there? You saw him? | Joe |
| I knew it! I knew it! | Joe |
| GET AWAY FROM THAT LIQUOR! | Joe |
| You hear? | Joe |
| No, no, Morris. It was a mistake. | Joe |
| What'd it say, Mady? | Joe |
| No, no. It was probably just the wind. | Joe |
| It's nothing. Go back to bed. Don't say anything to Mrs. Benjamin in the morning. | Joe |
| Give me that. How many times have I told you we only drink in this house on holidays and special occasions? | Joe |
| I will not tolerate disrespect! | Joe |
| An apology? From you? That's the first one I ever remember. | Joe |
| Why can't you be helpful? There's a professional burglar feeling his way around out there someplace ... Keep away from this door. I'm going to find out what's going on. If he attacks me, call the police and try not to wake your mother. | Joe |
| Hellooo? ... Who's out there? What do you want and where do you come from? | Joe |
| What is it you Want? ... If you're cold and want a drink, just say so ... | Joe |
| Can you see me? I have you glasses in my pocket. If you legs are broken, just crawl up to the house and we'll get you a doctor. | Joe |
| We know you're out there! Speak up, I'm losing patience. | Joe |
| All right, you want to freeze! Freeze! Let 'em freeze! | Joe |
| Can she hear me? No one. No one's out there! | Joe |
| Rose, please. There's no point in upsetting you. | Joe |
| Someone was trying to break into the house Rose, Rose! | Joe |
| Rose, are you all right? | Joe |
| It's me. Rose. Joe-the one who bought the jewels! It's all right. | Joe |
| Okay, that's enough! That's enough, everybody! Do you hear me? One little alarm goes off and everybody goes crazy. There is nothing wrong here. We're locked in, we're safe, we're well protected, and I don't want to hear any more about it, you understand? I'm your father and that's final. | Joe |
| You, I'll talk to later ... Everybody else, up to bed. I'll turn the lights out. | Joe |
| Then I'll leave them on. | Joe |
| You want me to call the police? | Joe |
| Then what do you want, Rose? What do you want? | Joe |
| Are you finished? All of you? Because I want to say something ... No one is getting into this house tonight. No one is going to cut our throats, steal our jewels or do the "other thing." I guarantee it ... but I can't promise it! Because whatever happens, happens. How we live and how we die is in the hands of our maker. We go to sleep and pray we get up in the morning. But if we don't, it's because it's God's will ... God's will, do you understand? Do you? | Joe |
| Then say it! Thank you ! I hope you all feel better ... Now, let's go to bed. | Joe |
| You stay! I've postponed that talk we're going to have later to right now! Everyone else upstairs. | Joe |
| You hear? That's a son | Joe |
| You want a drink? ... Go ahead! | Joe |
| I said, " Have a drink." This is a special occasion ... You and I are going to communicate with each other for the first time in our lives. | Joe |
| Why not? | Joe |
| Ohhh, David! David David David David David David David David David David David David David David David! | Joe |
| Yes ... but who are you? Who are you, David? Do you know? Because I don't. I don't know who you are Do you know who you are, David? | Joe |
| That's who you are ... Quick with a flippant answer. Fresh, disrespectful, unambitious, lazy, no interest, no principles, no beliefs, no scruples, a drunkard, a gambler, a playboy, a lover, a bum, a television watcher and a lousy guitar player, that's who you are. | Joe |
| Last week I tried to make a list of all the things you do that make me proud ... I didn't even take the top off the fountain pen. In high school, remember the Father an Son Picnic? I went alone. And what makes it so painful to me is that you're the smartest one in the family. You're the smartest one in anybody's family. Three college degrees, finished first in you class, and you didn't even show up for your senior year. So why do you throw it all away, David? Why do you drink so much? | Joe |
| What condition? | Joe |
| Then why do you stay? Why don't you pack your bottles and leave this house? | Joe |
| So you resent all this, is that it? You resent this house, my business, your mother's jewelry, our paintings, the furniture, the swimming pools, is that what you resent? | Joe |
| Your sister likes ice cream-is that a crime? Is it a crime to be rich? Is it a sin to want only the best for your family? | Joe |
| This house could go up in smoke tomorrow, I wouldn't blink an eye. I'll tell you something ... There was a time in my life when the holes in my socks were so big, you could put them on from either end ... | Joe |
| I grew up in a tenement in New York. My mother, my father and eleven kids in one and a half rooms. We had two beds and a cot, you had to take a number off the wall to go to sleep ... | Joe |
| My father was five foot three, weighed a hundred and twenty-seven pounds. He had a bad heart, bad lungs, bad live and bad kidneys. He was a piano mover. He died at the age of thirty-two from an acute attack of everything ... | Joe |
| My mother had to take a job in a sweatshop working six days a week, fourteen hours a day. At night she washed floors at Madison Square Garden, and on Sundays she sold hot sweet potatoes on the corner of Fourteenth Street and Broadway. What she didn't sell was dinner for the rest of the week. Sweet potatoes every night. On Thanksgiving she'd stuff the sweet potato with a little white potato ... | Joe |
| The clothes we wore were made out of rags she found in the street, or a pair of curtains somebody threw away ... You know what it is for a young boy growing up in a tough neighborhood in East New Yourk to wear curtains? Can you picture that? Everyone used to beat me up ... | Joe |
| And through all those freezing winters and hot, hungry summers, through all the years of scrimping and scrubbing, through sicknesses without doctors or medicines-one winter we all had the whooping cough at the same time, eleven kids throwing up simultaneously in one and a half rooms-my mother nursed us on roller skates ... | Joe |
| through all that pain and heartache and suffering, she never complained or cried out against the world, because she knew it was God's will. That was the lesson my mother taught us. " What God has given, God can take away. And for what God has given you, be thankful" ... | Joe |
| When I was fourteen years old I went to work for the Schreiber Corrugated Box Company. A rotten man who made a rotten box. No matter how you packed it, the minute you shipped it, it fell apart. It didn't hold up under any kind of weather-including sunshine. Because Schreiber was interested in a quick profit, not workmanship, not quality. | Joe |
| When I bought the business from him in 1942 with six thousand dollars my mother saved, I started to make quality boxes, strong as steel. In the first three months I lost my mother's six thousand dollars. "It's God's will," She kept telling me. | Joe |
| And then suddenly business began to pick up. From nowhere, from everywhere, people were buying my corrugated boxes. It was like a miracle. The money kept pouring in. I couldn't find banks fast enough to keep it ... My mother never lived to enjoy my success ... | Joe |
| On the day I made my first million dollars, she died peacefully in her sleep on the BMT subway. Her last words to the conductor were "If God wanted me to live, I would have taken the bus today" .. All I wanted for my wife and children was not to suffer the way I did as a child, not to be deprived of life's barest necessities. | Joe |
| But such riches, such wealth? I never asked for it, I never needed it But when I ask myself, "Why so much? Why all this?" I hear the voice of my mother say, "It's God's will" ... I give half of what I have every year to charity, and the next year I make twice as much. | Joe |
| Wealth is as much a responsibility as poverty is a burden. I'll accept whatever is given to me and ask for no more or no less ... Can you understand this, David? Does anything I've said to you tonight make any sense at all? ** | Joe |
| He's sleeping! Why do you torture me? Why do you twist my heart around like a pretzel? Where is your faith, David? Have I brought you up without faith, or have you just lost it? | Joe |
| I would give away everything I have in this world if I could just hear you say, " Dear God in Heaven, I believe in you." | Joe |
| Oh, David, David. The son who doesn't believe is the father's greatest anguish. Do you know wht it says in the Bible, David? | Joe |
| Am I wrong? ... Is all of this too much for one family? If it is, then why did You give it to me? It's enough already, dear Lord. Don't give me andy more ... Just David. Give me back my David ... If it be Your Will, dear God, that's all I ask ... Amen! | Joe |
| What? Who's there? Who said that? | Joe |
| Who is it? I can't see you. | Joe |
| You! The one who tried to break in! It's you isn't it? | Joe |
| Stay where you are! Don't move. I could have the police here in two minutes. | Joe |
| Don't you try anything funny. | Joe |
| All right, now who do you- Where are you? ... WHERE ARE YOU? | Joe |
| What do you mean by breaking into my house? Who are you? | Joe |
| Never mind the rug, I asked you a question. Who are you? | Joe |
| Your wife called. | Joe |
| What do I know your wife's name? | Joe |
| Here. Here's your glasses. | Joe |
| Here. | Joe |
| Certainly it's you hand. | Joe |
| Certainly it's the living room ... What does it look like? | Joe |
| Is that why you broke in here? To discuss movies with me? | Joe |
| What Business? | Joe |
| If you have business with me, you make an appointment like everyone else. | Joe |
| I don't remember what I paid for chairs. Is that what you are? An antique dealer? | Joe |
| What does that mean? | Joe |
| What do you mean by "What does anything mean"? | Joe |
| I can't make you out. You're not a burglar, that I can tell. | Joe |
| If you don't tell me who you are, it's not your nose that's going to get slit. | Joe |
| How do you know my wife, rose? | Joe |
| But you mentioned her name. | Joe |
| You're not getting anything from me until I get some information from you! | Joe |
| I'M NOT INTERESTED IN ALAN LADD! | Joe |
| Who's been talking to you? What do you know about me? | Joe |
| A lunatic! A lunatic wandered into my house from the snow. Why do I answer you? Why do I bother talking to you? | Joe |
| Are you selling something? If you're a salesman I'll kill you with my bare hands! | Joe |
| A travel agent? Is that what you are a travel agent? | Joe |
| I think you're a nut, that's what I think, and I want you out! Out, do you hear me? OUT! | Joe |
| Ten seconds and I throw you out that window head-first. One, two | Joe |
| Three, four | Joe |
| I'm getting a funny feeling. There's something funny going on here. You're not who you pretend to be at all, are you? | Joe |
| This is all an act. A game. Something is up, here ... Somebody sent you, didn't they? | Joe |
| Somebody sent you to get something from me! | Joe |
| Somebody important who knows me sent you to get something that I have that has enormous value. | Joe |
| Something I have that no other man on earth has. | Joe |
| My Bible! My Gutenberg Bible! | Joe |
| Darn you, What is it? | Joe |
| Thank God! | Joe |
| What? Good health? | Joe |
| Knocking on wood? | Joe |
| Thank God? | Joe |
| What are you saying? You're driving me crazy with these stupid games | Joe |
| Who told you? Who told you I was a wonderful man? | Joe |
| I don't know. | Joe |
| Who's he? | Joe |
| I can't understand what you're saying | Joe |
| Afraid? I'm not afraid of anything on the face of this earth except God himself. | Joe |
| STOP IT! I beg of you to stop it and tell me who you are, in plain, simple language. I'm a plain, simple man, I can't understand all this fancy hocus-pocus rigamarole. Who ar you, please? | Joe |
| Are you trying to tell me that you're-that you're -are you trying to tell me- | Joe |
| -that you -are you trying to say that you-? | Joe |
| I can't get the words out, It's so inconceivable to me. | Joe |
| God? Are you trying to tell me that you're God? | Joe |
| Then who are you? | Joe |
| I can't take any more of this | Joe |
| You met God? | Joe |
| What business? What business do you have with God? | Joe |
| What business? | Joe |
| You're a messenger boy? | Joe |
| You're a messenger from God? | Joe |
| I don't believe you. | Joe |
| You're either drunk, a madman or both. | Joe |
| I serve God as best I can. | Joe |
| All right, if you're who you say you are- | Joe |
| Let me finish! | Joe |
| If you're who you say you are- a messenger of God-then where do you come from? | Joe |
| But you said you met God. | Joe |
| But you've been in His presence. | Joe |
| But have you seen Him? Actually seen him with you own eyes? | Joe |
| With your glasses. | Joe |
| God! God! Have you seen God? | Joe |
| He spoke to you? | Joe |
| God blessed you? | Joe |
| This isn't a practical joke, is it? Did David hire you? My son David put you up to this, didn't he? I wouldn't put it past him. | Joe |
| Get on with what? With this insanity? | Joe |
| Tell me why? Then maybe I'll believe you. Why would God send a message to me, Joe Benjamin, a plain, simple, ordinary man? | Joe |
| Test my faith? My faith? My lifeblood is my faith! Are you saying that God doesn't believe my faith in Him? | Joe |
| What other one? | Joe |
| The Devil? The Devil questions my faith in God? Are you going to tell me now you met the Devil? | Joe |
| I've wasted enough time with you, I'm calling the police! | Joe |
| Renounce God? You think I would renounce God? | Joe |
| You think so little of man that he would renounce God in the face of adversity? | Joe |
| Let me see that. | Joe |
| Melvin. | Joe |
| Joseph Melvin Benjamin. | Joe |
| Come on, come on, get on with it. | Joe |
| Get to the message already! | Joe |
| Wait a minute! Where are you going? | Joe |
| It doesn't make sense. Why? Why should I, a man who has believed in God all his life, suddenly renounce Him? | Joe |
| I will not renounce God. I will never renounce God, do you hear me? | Joe |
| I am the servant of God, He is my Maker. I fear Him and love Him but come hell or high water, I will never renounce Him! | Joe |
| And I love Him! | Joe |
| What's that? | Joe |
| What's going on out there? | Joe |
| Near the water. | Joe |
| Cardboard boxes. | Joe |
| It's not my plant. My plant is a hundred percent fireproof..... Hello?... Eddie?... What is it?... What?...What? | Joe |
| What? | Joe |
| The whole plant? | Joe |
| Thank you, Eddie ... I know it wasn't your fault. | Joe |
| I didn't have insurance. I didn't believe in insurance ... GOD was my insurance. | Joe |
| ACT I Scene 2 | Joe |
| Yes? | Joe |
| Who? | Joe |
| Wait a minute, I'm coming. | Joe |
| Morris, close the door. And sit on my chair - keep it warm. | Joe |
| What do you want? ... I told you last night and the night before and I'll tell you every night you call me, I'm not renouncing anything, you understand? I don't care how cold it gets in here. I'll burn all the furniture before I say yes to you ... And don't bother calling me any more ... because they're cutting off my phone tomorrow. | Joe |
| Can I have a little decorum? A little decorum, everybody. Please! Mady! Morris! Will you all sit down, please? What I have to say to you all now is of grave importance ... You may have heard it said before, to love God is not to question God. We must accept God as we accept the air and the sky, the earth and the sun. | Joe |
| None of us are very comfortable, Rose. None of us like living under these conditions. We've had it very good for a long time. We're just going to have to learn to live more economically, tighten our belts- | Joe |
| I understand, Mady ... There is, however, one thing I haven't had the courage to tell you until tonight ... My dear children, devoted wife, faithful servants ... Have any of you stopped to think why, after a lifetime of luxury and prosperity, we're suddenly living in a house that's twelve degrees colder than it is outside? Have you wondered why plumber, electricians, supermarkets have all turned their backs on us? Why a butcher that I have personally kept in business for fifteen years, by buying the finest beef in the world, sends over meat that three of our cats walked away from? The answer is ... These things are happening because they are meant to happen. The truth is ... I am being tested! Tested for my courage and strength. | Joe |
| How do I explain this? Look ... I'm fifty-six years old. And in all that time, besides my love for all of you, I've believed in only one thing ... The Divine Wisdom and Glory of God. | Joe |
| Thank you, Mady. Now God, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to give us all the fruits of this earth ... But now, still in His infinite wisdom, He has seen fit to take it away from us ... Two weeks ago, I had an experience ... with a man ... | Joe |
| Let me finish! ... Don't ask me who he was or where he came from. Just accept what I tell you ... It is my belief, that I have been chosen, for reasons unknown to me, out of all the people on the face of the earth - regardless of race, religion, Polish whatever - to test the faith and courage of man in his love and devotion to God. | Joe |
| It didn't come in the mail. | Joe |
| Why doesn't anybody listen to me? Don' you understand? God is asking me to make the supreme personal sacrifice. | Joe |
| You know what I think? I think this family is part of my test. And I'm not so sure I can pass. I never thought I would be turning to you for help. You're a bum, but you're smart. Do you understand me? | Joe |
| Thank you. Will you please explain it to them? | Joe |
| You know what I pray for? I pray I had my money back again so I could cut you off without a cent. All right, listen to me, everybody. I will try and make this as simple as possible. Two weeks ago a man broke into this house. The one whose glasses we found. His name was Sidney Lipton - weirdo. A nut, lunatic weirdo. He wore Hush Puppies and talked about Alan Ladd, Chinatown with Jack Nicholson and Veronica Lake- | Joe |
| Don't analyze it, Rose. Just listen ... Lipton was not who he pretened to be. He played the fool because he knew I would never accept his real identity until he proved it to me ... Well, he proved it, all right. Oh, brother, did he prove it. | Joe |
| Very well ... Sidney Lipton, the man who appeared before me, was a messenger - of God! | Joe |
| For God! God! He delivers messages for God! | Joe |
| Yes! YES! | Joe |
| HE-WAS-FROM-GOD! God sent him to talk to me. | Joe |
| He's not what you think. He's a regular person. Like you or me. It's just a job. They hired him. He lives in Jackson Heights. He takes home a hundred and thirty-seven dollars a week. They stole his bicycle. He wants to move to Fort Lauderdale. | Joe |
| Thank you. Thank you, all of you. | Joe |
| Important documents only. No packages. | Joe |
| He got cramps in his head. | Joe |
| Yes. | Joe |
| He had a big "G" on his sweatshirt. | Joe |
| You must believe me. He was God's messenger. | Joe |
| The message was ... I should renounce God. | Joe |
| There's no mistake. That was the message. | Joe |
| God does. God asked me. To prove to the Devil how much I love God. | Joe |
| I didn't see him. The messenger did. | Joe |
| You'll never believe it. | Joe |
| The good-looking one. From Butch Cassidy. | Joe |
| No. The other one. | Joe |
| You don't understand anything. He loves me. | Joe |
| No! God loves me. | Joe |
| Listen to me. He not only loves me, I happen to be His favorite. The messenger told me. | Joe |
| Can I finish, please? It's God's belief that no matter how much pain and hardship I suffer, I will neve renounce Him. So He's putting me to this test. That's why the business burned down, why we have no heat , no water ... Don't you see how wonderful it is? I've been chosen out of all the people on earth to prove to God Himself how much I love Him. | Joe |
| He doesn't believe it. The fire in the factory was real, wasn't it? The freezing cold in here is real - and it's just the beginning. The real test begins tonight. He just told me on the phone. What we have to face in these next two weeks, don't even try to imagine. | Joe |
| Thank you, son. | Joe |
| Yes, David, it's your turn now. | Joe |
| Don' get smart! You don't know what you're dealing with. | Joe |
| Be careful, David, I'm begging you. | Joe |
| Don't you talk like that in this house, do you hear me? I will not have that kind of language in this house! | Joe |
| Now see what you've done! | Joe |
| In the basement, everybody! Quick, Morris, get everyone down into the basement. | Joe |
| Go on, Rose, go with the children ... I'll be right down, I promise. | Joe |
| Forgive him, dear God. Forgive my son, David. It's not his fault. Let me pay for his sins, Lord. Help me to teach him. Help me ... Help me... | Joe |
| What are you doing here? | Joe |
| I'm sorry. I apologize for David. | Joe |
| You mustn't pay attention to what David said. He's young, he's angry at the world, at all the injustices he sees ... He doesn't understand the ways of God. | Joe |
| Who are you calling? | Joe |
| Who are you calling? | Joe |
| If you could just explain to God. He's just a boy. I'll do anything. Give you whatever I have ... | Joe |
| No! No, of course not! | Joe |
| I'm sorry. | Joe |
| I'm sorry. Sometimes you get so involved with your own problems, you forget about others. | Joe |
| Sigh what? What is this for? | Joe |
| What ad? | Joe |
| What ad? The New York Times? What the hell are you talking about? | Joe |
| Are you mad? | Joe |
| Get away! I'm not sighing any documents. | Joe |
| Get away! Get away, I said! | Joe |
| I am not taking an ad renouncing God! | Joe |
| Never! Never never never never never never! | Joe |
| Didn't you just hear "Never never never never never never" ? | Joe |
| Get that poisonous thing away from me! | Joe |
| You think I don't know what hardship is? What bad times are? I grew up in a tenement in New York. My mother, my father and eleven kids in one and a half rooms - * - We had two beds and a cot, you had to take a number off the wall to go to sleep - - My father was five foot three, weighed a hundred and twenty-seven pounds - ** What the heck is that? | Joe |
| Do what you want. Bankrupt me, freeze me, tear out my insides - Oh, God, that's driving me crazy. Could you just scratch me for a minute? ... Nobody would know. | Joe |
| No! No, I'm not signing anything! OH! I'd trade my entire hand for one ten-inch finger. | Joe |
| No. Not yet ... Now! Now - they just started! Ohh! Oh, that's worse than the back ... I'd rather have all my teeth pulled out than have my feet itch. | Joe |
| Oh, it's in-between the fingers now. I can't scratch everywhere at once. I need another arm. | Joe |
| I expected pain but this is torture ... Oh, it's in the nostrils now. Now it's up the nose! | Joe |
| He's my God. He gave me life and my life meaning. I will not renounce Him. Oh! Oh, what's that? | Joe |
| Oghhhhhhhhhh! Ogggghhhhh! Never, never ... What is that? | Joe |
| Aggghhhhhhh! Get out! Get out and let me suffer alone. Let me bear my pain alone. | Joe |
| Aggghhhhh! Ogghhhhhh! It's itching again. Everything and everywhere is itching me Do something Help me! Isn't there something you can do? | Joe |
| Uggghhhhhhhhhhh! | Joe |
| A doctor! Get me a doctor, please .... | Joe |
| Aggggghhhhhhhh! That's the worst one. What is that? | Joe |
| ACT 2 | Joe |
| Ail ... Ail in hoo ... | Joe |
| Ail ... Ail in hoo ... | Joe |
| Ail in hoo ... | Joe |
| Ail in hoo ... hurts! | Joe |
| Dava? | Joe |
| Dava? ... Bear daba? | Joe |
| Daba gobe? | Joe |
| Dava's gobe... | Joe |
| Nah! Nah! | Joe |
| Dow tuch ... Dow tuch ... Muzzzn tuch ... | Joe |
| Ha! ... Ski fees ha! | Joe |
| Ka-hoo! | Joe |
| Ka-hoo! | Joe |
| Ka-swa! | Joe |
| Ka-thi! | Joe |
| Gow ... Evthi gow ... | Joe |
| Evthi gow - in here! AaaaaagggggHHHHHH!!! | Joe |
| Away ... Take away ... | Joe |
| Worse? Worse than this? No. There's no worse. This is it! | Joe |
| And I ... love you. | Joe |
| AGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! | Joe |
| Dow tuch ... Dow tuch! | Joe |
| Thank ... you. | Joe |
| Okay. | Joe |
| May it knowwww ... | Joe |
| Amen, Lord! Oh, I bit my tongue! | Joe |
| Arrggghhhhh! | Joe |
| There'th nothing I can do ... I can't thtop it ... | Joe |
| Don't ... Don't ask me, Rose ... | Joe |
| Don't beg me, rose. | Joe |
| David makes me suffer ... and I love him. | Joe |
| I can't help myself ... I love my God ... | Joe |
| I'm sorry, Rose ... Forgive me ... | Joe |
| Sarah ... One kiss ... One goodbye kiss. | Joe |
| A kiss from you could never hurt. That's the first time I felt good in three days. Button your coat. | Joe |
| Rosey! | Joe |
| Take care, Rosey ... and try and forgive me. | Joe |
| What are you waiting for? Go: | Joe |
| What does a suffering man living all alone in ashes need two in help for? Go with Mrs. Benjamin, Morris. She needs you. | Joe |
| Thank you both and God bless you. | Joe |
| Okay, God. What's next? ... What's next, God? | Joe |
| What? | Joe |
| God? ... Is it really you God? | Joe |
| Oh, thank you Lord ... | Joe |
| Ohhh! | Joe |
| Thank Thee, My Lord. | Joe |
| What? | Joe |
| What is this? ... It's a trick. That's what is is! It's a trick, isn't it? | Joe |
| A trick ... That voice ... I know that voice ... It's not God! It's you, isn't it? | Joe |
| I knew it! I knew that voice! | Joe |
| Leave me alone today, please. Besides suffereing, I'm not feeling well. | Joe |
| If I've lost everything else, why can't I lose you too? | Joe |
| You're gloating, aren't you? You think you've won. You think you've beatem me. Well, you're wrong. You're wasting your time. Lipton, All I wait for now is my death. | Joe |
| What list? | Joe |
| If I'm alive I'll endure. | Joe |
| I don't care. | Joe |
| I am what God made me. | Joe |
| I am an infinitesimal speck on the eyelash of the universe ... but God sees me. | Joe |
| It won't work, Sidney. No matter what you say, it won't work. | Joe |
| I'm sorry, Sidney. Forgive me ... How can I help you? | Joe |
| Will I what, Sidney? Ask me. | Joe |
| Oh, Sidney, don't tell me. I'm so sorry. | Joe |
| She sounds like a good woman. She'll understand. | Joe |
| Then why did you come here today? | Joe |
| God loves you, Sidney - he'll provide. | Joe |
| We must carry whatever burdens God gives us. | Joe |
| NO! DON'T DO THAT! | Joe |
| Take it back, Sidney. | Joe |
| We all have our own test to go through, Sidney ... | Joe |
| Shh ... Shh ... It's all right, Sidney. | Joe |
| Of course I'll tell Him, Sidney. He won't ... shh ... | Joe |
| Good luck, Sidney. | Joe |
| What is it? | Joe |
| Where? I can't see | Joe |
| See what? Where should I look? There's nothing out there but smoke and ashes. | Joe |
| Behing the burning bush? | Joe |
| What did I say? | Joe |
| What are you saying? | Joe |
| What are you implying? | Joe |
| Do you mean-? | Joe |
| Oh, my God. | Joe |
| NO! Stay! Help me! | Joe |
| I'm not interested in the box business any more. | Joe |
| Don't leave me now. I need you. Help me, Sidney ... | Joe |
| Who's out there? ... Tell me who's there, please. I'm frightened. Is it - is it who I think it is? ... Why don't You say something? ... What more do You want of me? ... Say something to me, PLEASE. | Joe |
| David. | Joe |
| David. David, it's you! | Joe |
| David, help me. Come here, David ... I've been so worried for you. | Joe |
| What are you talking about? You mother's not here ... Can't you see they're all gone? | Joe |
| What's wrong with you? Are you drunk again? ... You're dead drunk, aren't you? | Joe |
| Oh, God ... Oh, my God! What have You done to my boy? What have You done to my David? | Joe |
| God, how could You do such a thing? | Joe |
| Is this Your work? | Joe |
| ... Is this Your test of faith and love? ... You blind my firs-born son and still expect me to love you? Punish me, not him! Blind me, not my son ... Where is your love? Your compassion? Your justice? ... I AM ANGRY AT YOU, GOD! REALLY, REALLY ANGRY! ... And STILL I don't renounce you! How do you like that, God? | Joe |
| You can see, David? It's over! Oh, thank you, God. Thank you! ... I'm sorry I lost my temper-but after all, I'm only human. You don't know what it's like ... Try it sometime. | Joe |
| In here, Rose! We're in here. | Joe |
| Tell him what? | Joe |
| Where did you get it? | Joe |
| Yes Rose ... I think I know. | Joe |
| You hear? Isn't it wonderful? Mady, Morris ... Look at david now. That's my son. | Joe |
| Are you coming, David? | Joe |
| Are you sure you're all right, David? | Joe |
| I'd go through it all again, David, just to hear you say that. | Joe |
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