M'Closky. M'Closky. Point. Will she gladly see you wedded to the child of her husband's slave? Ratts. Scudder. Hush! ], Paul. Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. The men leave to fetch the authorities, but McClosky escapes. All. It ain't necessary for me to dilate, describe, or enumerate; Terrebonne is known to you as one of the richest bits of sile in Louisiana, and its condition reflects credit on them as had to keep it. George. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. yes, plenty of 'em; bill of costs; account with Citizens' Bank---what's this? Dora. The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' Go on, Colonel. What's he doing; is he asleep? Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. Pete. then I shall be sold!---sold! I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. His greatest successes however, were on London's stages. M'Closky. The sheriff from New Orleans has taken possession---Terrebonne is in the hands of the law. Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. It's dem black trash, Mas'r George; dis ere property wants claring; dem's getting too numerous round; when I gets time I'll kill some on 'em, sure! How dar you say dat, you black nigger, you? O, law, sir, dat debil Closky, he tore hisself from de gen'lam, knock me down, take my light, and trows it on de turpentine barrels, and de shed's all afire! Ya!---as he? Sunny. George. What! I've been to the negro quarters. To be alive is to be breathing. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. Pete. [Pete holds lantern up.] Sharon Gannon. Point. Make an argument for each side of the slavery argument here, analyzing how the play could be read as both anti- and pro-slavery. You may drink dat, Mas'r George. [Rises.] [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. Five hundred bid---it's a good price. Hello! She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. Brian Tracy, How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. Zoe! George. George. Dem debils. I won't strike him, even with words. [Solon goes down and stands behind Ratts.] [During the reading of letter he remains nearly motionless under the focus of the camera.] M'Closky. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. Debbel's in de pail! [Smiling.] Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Why you out in de swamp dis time ob night---you catch de fever sure---you is all wet. Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. Point. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. O, you wanted evidence---you called for proof---Heaven has answered and convicted you. Come, Zoe, don't be a fool; I'd marry you if I could, but you know I can't; so just say what you want. Hush! Let her pass! George. George. How the flames crack. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. Zoe. Zoe. If you want a quarrel---. Dora said you were slow; if she could hear you now---. Dear George, you now see what a miserable thing I am. what a bright, gay creature she is! Scad. I think we may begin business. He is said to have "combined sentiment, wit and local colour with sensational and spectacular endings" (Nova). I can go no farther. M'Closky. Scud. He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. Paul. A photographic plate. Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like. So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. [Scandalized.] [Sits. now mind. I am free! Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. It's a shame to allow that young cub to run over the Swamps and woods, hunting and fishing his life away instead of hoeing cane. [1] One hundred and forty-nine bales. Where is Mr. Scudder? Mr. Scudder, take us with you---Mr. Peyton is so slow, there's no getting him, on. What was her name? You nasty, lying Injiun! No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. he must not see me. what will become of her when I am gone? Pete. See here---there's a small freight of turpentine in the fore hold there, and one of the barrels leaks; a spark from your engines might set the ship on fire, and you'd go with it. McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. Thib. A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] Take my shawl, Zoe. Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! It carried that easy on mortgage. Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! Pete. Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. Zoe, tell Pete to give my mare a feed, will ye? Look here, you're free, you know nary a master to hurt you now: you will stop here as long as you're a mind to, only don't look so. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? Ah. [*ExitScudderand*Mrs. Peyton,R.U.E. George. [Re-enters with phial.] here are marks of blood---look thar, red-skin, what's that? You will not give me to that man? Race or not, it's a story about . M'Closky. Yonder is the boy---now is my time! Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Scud. I hope I'm not intruding. [Pete goes down.] thank you. You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. here's a bit of leather; [draws out mail-bags] the mail-bags that were lost! Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. The Injiun means that he buried him there! Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George,---no. ZOE played by an octoroon actress, a white actress, a quadroon actress, a biracial actress, a multi-racial actress, or an actress of color who can pass as an octoroon. M'Closky. I'd cut my throat---or yours---yours I'd prefer. I left it last night all safe. PART ONE: The estate of Terrebonne, in Louisiana, had been heavily mortgaged by the owner, Judge Payton, who, when he died, left the estate to his brother's widow and her son George, making Mrs. Peyton the guardian of Zoe, his natural daughter by a quadroon. Pete. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. M'Closky. It's not a painful death, aunty, is it? [All salute.]. Scud. I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Pete. Ratts. Here are evidences of the crime; this rum-bottle half emptied---this photographic apparatus smashed---and there are marks of blood and footsteps around the shed. Scud. Den say de missus, "'Tain't for de land I keer, but for dem poor niggars---dey'll be sold---dat wot stagger me." Why, because I love Zoe, too, and I couldn't take that young feller from her; and she's jist living on the sight of him, as I saw her do; and they so happy in spite of this yer misery around them, and they reproachin' themselves with not feeling as they ought. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. Zoe. I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. look sar! Hold on, George Peyton---stand back. [Wakes.] M'Closky. Stop; this would. I'll gib it you! Scud. But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! Scud. Dora. I will, quicker than lightning. What am goin' to cum ob us! I wish to speak to you. Born here! How would you like to rule the house of the richest planter on Atchafalaya---eh? Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. EnterPete,with lantern, andScudder,with note book,R. Scud. Fair or foul, I'll have her---take that home with you! What, Picayune Paul, as we called, him, that used to come aboard my boat?---poor little darkey, I Hope not; many a picayune he picked up for his dance and nigger-songs, and he supplied our table with fish and game from the Bayous. [Dances.]. Pete. I've seen it, I tell you; and darn it, ma'am, can't you see that's what's been a hollowing me out so---I beg your pardon. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? I tell ye, 't'ain't so---we can't do it---we've got to be sold---, Pete. [A pause.] I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. Scud. Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. George. blaze away! Pete.
The word Octoroon signifies "one-eighth blood" or the child of a Quadroon by a white. but the deed that freed you was not lawful. Wahnotee. Ya! [Zoe sings without,L.]. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. Jackson. O, golly! Sunny. As I swam down, I thought I heard something in the water, as if pursuing me---one of them darned alligators, I suppose---they swarm hereabout---may they crunch every limb of ye! Pete. Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. | Contact Us "But, mister, that ain't my nose." What, sar? Those free papers ain't worth the sand that's on 'em. I hate 'em. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. That part of it all is performance for the media. Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. George. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. One of them is prepared with a self-developing liquid that I've invented. Enjoy the best Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes at BrainyQuote. Ratts. Mr. Peyton! Ain't he! stan' round thar! By fair means I don't think you can get her, and don't you try foul with her, 'cause if you do, Jacob, civilization be darned. Scud. He said I want a nigger. Now, take care what you do. Come, Paul, are you ready? All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? One hundred thousand bid for this mag---. Zoe. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks This New York Times article cautions its readers against jumping to conclusions about Boucicault's intentions in the writing of the play and downplays . Scud. George. I want you to buy Terrebonne. But dis ain't all. I'll take back my bid, Colonel. [Enters house.]. What's here? What? No, Pete; no, I won't. Paul! twit him on his silence and abstraction---I'm sure it's plain enough, for he has not spoken two words to me all the day; then joke round the subject, and at last speak out. | About Us Stop, Zoe; come here! Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. [Sitting,R. C.] A pretty mess you've got this estate in---. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Would you now? Yes; I kept the letters, and squandered the money. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. Stop, here's dem dishes---plates---dat's what he call 'em, all fix: I see Mas'r Scudder do it often---tink I can take likeness---stay dere, Wahnotee. Poor fellow, he has lost all. This lynch law is a wild and lawless proceeding. Pete. You want to hurt yourself. Mrs. P.Yes, there is a hope left yet, and I cling to it. He's yours, Mr. George Peyton. No! [ToMrs. As my wife,---the sharer of my hopes, my ambitions, and my sorrows; under the shelter of your love I could watch the storms of fortune pass unheeded by. The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Be the first to contribute! [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless there is a TV camera. "Judgment, 40,000, 'Thibodeaux against Peyton,'"---surely, that is the judgment under which this estate is now advertised for sale---[takes up paper and examines it]; yes, "Thibodeaux against Peyton, 1838." [Shakes hands withGeorge.] Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. The apparatus can't mistake. Top a bit! "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. He said so. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? Each word you utter makes my love sink deeper into my heart. A Room in Mrs. Peyton's house; entrances,R.U.E.*andL.U.E.---An Auction Bill stuck up,*L.---chairs,C.,*and tables,*R. and L. Pete. that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! Sign that receipt, captain, and save me going up to the clerk. Take your hand down---take it down. Point. Hush! I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. George. Paying the iron price. Paul. Who is it? Scud. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. [On sofa,C.] George---where---where---, Zoe. Thank ye; thank ye. They owed him over fifty thousand dollars. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. save me! ", Zoe. [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] Will you forgive me? Zoe. Mr. George is in love with Zoe. 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