Upon refusing to move from a piece of furniture, a character in this play is asked "this iron and this wood, is this your honor?"
The stage directions for this play's longest speech prescribe that it be delivered with "a great deal of action" to cast a "hypnotic effect" over both the listening character and the audience. Upon refusing to move from a piece of furniture, a character in this play is asked "this iron and this wood, is this your honor?"; as that character in this play says that "naturally, every man wants a son," he is interrupted and told "that's the way the cookie crumbles." In this play, a resident of a rooming house that is home to a kimono-wearing "colored queen" tells a story about using a poisoned hamburger to try to kill the landlady's dog. Two strangers converse on a Central Park bench in, for 10 points, what one-act Edward Albee play that ends with Jerry impaling himself on a knife held by Peter?
The stage directions for this play's longest speech prescribe that it be delivered with "a great deal of action" to cast a "hypnotic effect" over both the listening character and the audience.
The Zoo Story