Hickey's epic final monologue in ICEMAN COMETH is really one long, 20 minute breakdown on stage.
Tobias in the final monologue in Albee's A DELICATE BALANCE.
Hallie, Sam and Willie in the climactic scene of Fugard's MASTER HAROLD..... and the boys.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
How about Stanley standing at the bottom of the stairs screaming "Stella!!!" in Act One of STREETCAR? Brando's performance of that is probably one of the most iconic moments ever in the American theatre.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
A STREETCAR NAMED SHEQUIDA. Didn't you star in the sequel?
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Romeo and Juliet, Act III scene 1 [Romeo and Tybalt fight; Tybalt falls.]
Benvolio. Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.-- Stand not amaz'd. The prince will doom thee death If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away!
Romeo. O, I AM FORTUNE'S FOOL!
Benvolio. Why dost thou stay?
[Exit Romeo.]
"Inside every actor there is a Tiger, a Pig, an Ass, and a Nightingale. You never know which one is going to show up."
-John Michael Higgins in FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
This whole thread needs a spoiler warning. It's very interesting, but I think I just experienced by proxy the dramatic climax of several great dramas I still have yet to see. Serves me right for continuing to read after, "He shoots himself in the end"! Ha ha. Fortunately, I'd already seen that one.
Margo, you don't know me, but welcome back anyway. I had missed your well-informed posting.
How bout those little trifles known as OEDPIPUS REX and KING LEAR?
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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The final scene by the train conductor in "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Miss Deaf Texas!"
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