Scene 8

• the view through the big windows is fading gradually into a still-golden dusk
• a torch of sunlight blazes on the side of a big water tank
• pierced by pin-points of lighted windows
• Blanche has a tight , artificial smile on her drawn face
• Mr Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself -stella
• your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy. Go and wash up and then help me clear the table. - stella
• he hurls a plate to the floor
• them kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's too much around here! - stanley
• what do you two think you are? A pair of queens? - stanley
• Remember what Huey Long said - every man is a king! And i am the king around here, so don't forget it! - stanley
• God , honey , it's gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way we use to and get the coloured lights going with nobody's sister behind the curtains to hear us! - stanley
• electric lightbulbs go on and you see too plainly - blanche
• i won't be taken for granted - blanche
• what i am is a one hundred per cent american , born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it , so dont ever call me a Polack - stanley
• Ticket! Back to Laurel! On the Greyhound! Tuesday ! - stanley
• i was as common as dirt - stanley
• i pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it , having them coloured lights going ! - stanley
• wasn't it all okay till she showed here? - stanley
• the varsouviana is heard , its music rising with sinister rapidity
• take me to hospital - stella