In act three, Margie and Pearl argue with their pimp about whether they are tarts or whores, and Piet Wetjoen fights with Cecil Lewis about their respective dreams of returning to South Africa and England.
This play's first act ends with a former employee of the circus telling a joke about a doctor who dies of overwork selling snake oil. In the last act, one character says "when St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they swam to New York and joined the police force" in order to insult Moran and Lieb. In act three, Margie and Pearl argue with their pimp about whether they are tarts or whores, and Piet Wetjoen fights with Cecil Lewis about their respective dreams of returning to South Africa and England. Another character is urged to "take a walk around the ward" by the central character, who implores the others to give up their pipe dreams until he reveals that he has killed his wife Evelyn. FTP, name this play about the arrival of Theodore "Hickey" Hickman to Harry Hope's bar, written by Eugene O'Neill.
This play's first act ends with a former employee of the circus telling a joke about a doctor who dies of overwork selling snake oil.
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