话剧简介（Summary）

《The Gin Game》是美国剧作家唐纳德·L·科本（D. L. Coburn）创作的双人话剧，首演于1976年。该剧聚焦于一对在养老院相识的老人之间的互动，通过打纸牌（尤其是gin rummy，即洋麻将）展示他们的心理斗争、孤独感以及内心的脆弱。

剧情通过看似平淡的纸牌游戏，逐步揭示两位老人各自的过去、遗憾、挫折和孤独，最终形成一种喜剧与悲剧交织的张力。整个戏剧紧凑、心理刻画深刻，同时带有讽刺意味和幽默感。

这部话剧因其深刻的人物描写和情感张力，获得1978年托尼奖最佳话剧奖。

版权归属为唐纳德·L·科本，如有侵权，联系作者处理

主要人物介绍（Characters） 

FONSIA

性别：女

年龄：老年（无需凹老年声线）

性格特征：孤独、敏感、善良但有些脆弱

背景：住在养老院，生活单调，内心渴望关注和理解

特点：在牌局中表现出急躁和情绪化，容易被触动过去的伤痛

Weller (韦勒)

性别：男

年龄：老年（无需凹老年声线）

性格特征：暴躁好胜、自尊心强、有幽默感，但内心孤单

背景：养老院的新居民，生活也充满孤独和遗憾

特点：打牌喜欢炫耀自己的技巧，常常揭示自己过去的失败与孤独

剧中关系与主题

两人在打牌中从互相试探、嘲讽到揭露内心深处的孤独与不安。

牌局不仅是游戏，更是心理较量和人生比喻。

探讨老年孤独、生命遗憾、人与人之间的情感连接等。。。

第二幕

WELLER 出现大声打招呼

FONSIA开环大笑 ，边笑边说以下

FONSIA：ah you become crazy.

WELLER：Well, I must admit, that's a very appealing thought at times, but unfortunately this time I've done nothing more bizarre --- select a book from the bottom shelf.

FONSIA： for a minute I thought you lost your mind?

WELLER：No, although this place inspires a certain loneliness.

FONSIA：This is practically the first time I seen you to talk to all week .

WELLER：since I met my Waterloo at GIN.

FONSIA：That fun?

WELLER：Well, perhaps you'll grab me a rematch this afternoon.

FONSIA：I thought too!

FONSIA笑

WELLER：God, listen to them in there. Every visitor's day is bent them around here.

FONSIA：Thank God they don't come out here.

WELLER：Oh, a couple of them stumble out here every once in a while. You know, a few weeks ago, Gladys May's daughter and son in law brought her out here on the board.

FONSIA：It's about a tribe.

WELLER：They didn't have the children with them. No, but they talk so loud, like the old lady's deaf. Hell, there's nothing wrong with her hearing when she's out here alone. She tells me don't to make so much noise. Shuffling the cards.

FONSIA：she ...

WELLER：they brought a sandwich out here to her.。。tried to get her to eat it,

FONSIA：She won't eat a bite. I don't know what keeps her alive

WELLER：They had a coloring book too, they wanted her to occupy herself.Coloring ...

FONSIA：oh A poor soul, what she says to the window all day color will be something for her to do.

WELLER：Oh, she'd have no part of it. Then they started talking about me as though I wasn't even there, like I was a piece of furniture or something. At one point, the daughter said say that nice man amuses himself playing cards. I couldn't believe it. And I looked at her, and then in that loud voice, she said, don't we, sir?

FONSIA：Well, what did you say?

WELLER：Oh, I ,I didn't answer. I mean, I was dumbfounded. I mean, here, this woman defining my life in one sentence, or at least she thinks she is, and I'm supposed to sit there and agree with her,See, that nice man amuses himself playing card.

FONSIA：No, Well, I don't think she meant it that way. She was probably just trying to show  that you ,there are things to do besides stare out of the window.

WELLER：Well, why use me as a model retiree, for Christ's sake?

FONSIA：Well, she wasn't talking about your life, my LORD, now look at all the things you've done.

WELLER：No, but she was talking about my life the way it is now, you know I'm still alive.damn it.

FONSIA： Well, I suppose to tell you .

WELLER：still... I don't know, maybe I am a little jumpy. I don't know how to act with people anymore. Unsure of myself. Rustic, there's no one around here to have a decent conversation with anyway. I mean, you're the only one I talked to.

FONSIA：I know, you think there'd be somebody you'd like to talk to in a place that has as many people as they want.

WELLER：Half of them are catatonic, for Christ's sake. Sometimes the ones who do talk make you appreciate the ones who don't.

FONSIA：They complaining. Did you ever hear of so many aches and pains and all your life? FONSIA开始模仿别人喊到 my Back is killing me.

WELLER猜到她在模仿的人，大笑到说

WELLER：I Know her！ 

WELLER开始模仿别人

WELLER：Oh, I can hardly see from here.

WELLER：Well, what are you gonna do? I mean, is either that or listen to the help talk. You like a child

FONSIA笑

FONSIA：You know, I never take my medicine. No, I take our medicine.

WELLER：I say to hell with them. To hell with all of them.

FONSIA：That's what I say too.

WELLER：FONSIA Dorsey, your father would roll over in his grave.

FONSIA：I didn't say it,you said.

WELLER：you know what Ms Dorothy, it's almost 3 o'clock and we haven't amused ourselves yet.

FONSIA：My goodness.I think I'm saying...

WELLER：...I will amuse you immediately. At our age, that can only mean one thing. I'll get the cards.

FONSIA笑，WELLER示意再一起打牌

WELLER：Why don't you try that chair?

FONSIA：Now, I hope I remember how this goes.

WELLER：From the way you played last time, I don't think you're going to have any problems whatsoever. FONSIA...

WELLER又开始画评分表

WELLER：Weller.FONSIA...

FONSIA：you know my family never call me anything but FONSI.

WELLER：FONSI

FONSIA：Yeah.

WELLER：why would I change FONSIA to FONSI.

FONSIA：beatS ME.

WELLER：F O N S I A, right?

FONSIA：Yeah, you spelled it right.

WELLER：is it? Well, that's an unusual name, I know.

FONSIA：I don't have any idea where have they .

WELLER：which you prefer.

FONSIA：don't make any difference to me.

WELLER洗牌

WELLER：all right! I'll just call you whichever comes to mind first.

FONSIA：That'll be fine.

WELLER：1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6.

FONSIA插话

FONSIA：FONSI means.....

WELLER：Nine, 9,9，9，9，10,10

FONSIA：Now, why do I get 11 and you only get 10?

WELLER：I was the one who....

FONSIA：explain that to me last week, but I swear I forgot .

WELLER：because I dealt and you'll make the first play, which will be a discard. Get your cards organized.

FONSIA哼着小曲儿开心的看牌

WELLER：All right, now go ahead, discard. Okay, now the game is underway. You have 10 cards. I have 10 cards.

FONSIA：I swear this game relaxes me.

WELLER：No, GIN is a very relaxing game.

WELLER：I used to play Bro on end on business trips. I had it all figured out. San Francisco to Chicago, two hollywoods ，Los Angeles to New York ，4 Hollywood. New York to Los Angeles， 5 Hollywood, oh.

FONSIA：no, wait a minute. Head winds.

WELLER：you always get headwinds flying west.

FONSIA：Well, now all that time you were playing GIN then didn't seem like you were friterie your life away. Why should it be any different now?

WELLER：That's a good question, I don't know.

FONSIA：Well, we don't want to talk about that now anyway.

WELLER：Have You played？

FONSIA：I'm just trying to figure this out.

WELLER：Come on, come on, come on, come on. Play a card.

FONSIA：all right, I'm not with three.

FONSIA一把赢！

WELLER：You told me you never played this game before.

FONSIA：but you explained the part about knocking last week.

WELLER：and if I remember correctly, you were other hazy about.

FONSIA：No, I understood it. I just said I'd stick to the G part of the game at first.

WELLER：Well, I don't think we have to worry about your memory anymore.

FONSIA：That was right，was it?

WELLER：exceedingly !10, 20,30, 40, 42, 43, 46, 48, 48. Minus your 3 gives you 45.

FONSIA：This chair is KILLING MY BACK! oh, I sound like ... .

WELLER：doesn't seem to be hurting your GIN game any.

FONSIA：I gotta get me this pillow to put behind my back. Why then will you look at me?

WELLER：Why .

WELLER洗牌,FONSIA夸手法好。

FONSIA：I can't get over how you...

WELLER：it's not that difficult.

FONSIA：No.I, so if I try to do that, the cards will be flying every which way.

WELLER：Got one back to front end here. 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 1010, and 11 for you.

停顿看牌

WELLER：What a mess

FONSIA：Do you like stewed tomatoes?

WELLER：No.

FONSIA：I have never talked to anyone who did.

WELLER：They serve them all up around here

FONSIA：I can't understand that with all the wonderful vegetables there are in this world.

WELLER：dieticians are not noted for their imagination.

FONSIA：Honestly, I think I could do better than that, misses B? What is the name? .

WELLER：Brown!

FONSIA：Brown.....GIN

FONISA又赢了！

WELLER：For God s sake! Yeah, I just dealt the cards!

FONSIA：I know， I got everything I needed right away.

WELLER：That seems to happen quite a lot to you, 10, 20，30, 40, 42, 42 plus 25 per gives you 67. Well, that puts you out in the first game 112 and gives you a 67 leg on the second. God damn！

FONSIA：You didn't get any points at all in that game.did you?

WELLER： No, no, I didn't get any points at all in the game.

FONSIA：well,That's too bad....

WELLER： two weeks now, and I haven't won a game.

FONSIA：I'm sure you'll win one soon

WELLER：I would say the percentages are definitely starting to favor me. 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 9, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10,10, and 11 for you.

FONSIA：Oh, I just had the dizziest feeling in my head.

WELLER：are u all right?

FONSIA：So it's gone now. I think it's those pills they're giving me. I don't think they hit me right. WELLER：Do you know what they're giving you?

FONSIA：I'm not real sure, seems like a different prescription.

WELLER：Well, you better have your doctor check it. I mean, your own doctor, not one of these welfare quarks.

FONSIA：I am not here on welfare!

WELLER：I didn't say that you were. I just said you better have somebody check the medicine. That's all

沉默

FONSIA：I didn't mean to jump at you.

WELLER：Play a card.

WELLER：When you got dizzy just now, everything seemed kind of unrealistic, distorted?

FONSIA：No, no, just the dizziness, like I was going to fall off this chair there for a minute.

WELLER：Sometimes I'll be sitting in my room or even out here and everything will take on. Dreamlike quality, You know, people, the room, everything like it wasn't really happening. Well, at first, I could snap out of it almost immediately. Then a couple of times it hit me. I couldn't shake it. This feeling of sheer. TERROR...God, I didn't know what to do. I'd sit there, panic stricken for no reason at all. I mean, people around me would go about their business. I don't think they even knew I was having a problem. None, it would pass.

FONSIA：Well, that isn't a thing in this world. But nerves?

WELLER：Who's this card? Oh, is it mine?

FONSIA：I believe so .

WELLER：I'll tell you, it was one of the worst feelings I ever had in my life.

FONSIA：I went through something like that years ago with my divorce.

WELLER：How'd you get over it?

FONSIA：Time.

WELLER：just time.

FONSIA：just time.

WELLER：Well, play a card.

WELLER：Well, are you going to play one?

FONSIA：Well, all right.

WELLER：I should knock. Well I've got the chance. You're probably sitting over there with gin already.

FONSIA：Not quite.

WELLER：Coming. Nothing.

FONSIA：Nothing, there. It is GIN.

FONSIA又赢了，WELLER有些急！

WELLER：god damn it!You know, I don't know what to say. I'm stuck with one, you know, you're the luckiest person I've ever seen him play gin in my life .

FONSIA：when you should have not.

WELLER：Hindsight is 2020 .

FONSIA：when you would really have gotten me. I was waiting for that queen. I thought I'd never get it. What I said, I thought I'd never get that queen.

WELLER：You mean to tell me that you held queen through that entire hand.

FONSIA：that's what I'm saying? Look, I had these two queens, so if you had not, you would have beaten me. Now do you understand that now?

WELLER：FONSIA！ that is dumb. That is just dumb.GIN! holding face cards that long? My God, can't believe it. One, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10,11

FONSIA：I won the game then not?

WELLER： for God's sake, now don't try to relate how you play G to the fact that you won a few games.

FONSIA：What do you related to ?

WELLER：one of the most incredible runs of luck I've ever seen in my life!

FONSIA：Lord Wella, I can't help it now, don't shout at me for messy sake

WELLER：I'm sorry I raised my voice. It's frustration, nothing more, just frustration.

FONSIA：You had any of your things turn up missing since you've been here?

WELLER：You mean stolen? You're damn right, I have a $300 watch.

FONSIA：Oh my ,no, but I never heard that Did you call the police?

WELLER：Sure, I called the police, they came out here, they took my name and address and said, well.happens all the time.....that's all.

FONSIA： .that's all.Oh, you think they could do more than that?

WELLER：Well, be pretty naive to expect them to come out here and solve the case. What are they going to do, run around fingerprinting everything?

FONSIA：Yes, you right, they stolen just about everything they lay their hands on, but you can't prove a thing

WELLER：of course not if they paid anything, you might get some decent help out here. But no, no, no, too cheap.

FONSIA：Now, Weller, I don't get mad at me. All I've done is sit here and play the cards the same as you.

WELLER：Have you got you again?

FONSIA：ye

FONSIA又赢了 WELLER很急

WELLER： Jesus Christ！ you have to win all the goddamn .time.

WELLER：I mean, you can't, you lose just once.

FONSIA：Honestly I'm not trying to do this.

WELLER：Oh, you're not even trying. I'm reassure it. Now I forgot what I was stuck with. Well, it was a bundle. Well I'll just call it 50. Well, whatever it was put you out in the second game and see in the third game, 50 would make it 76 plus 25 for GIN, 76 and 20 ........goddamn it couldn't have been 50. No, no, no, it must have been 40, 40 gives you 91. Christ! I've never seen anything like it. I mean, you are incredible!

FONSIA：I don't want to go through this every time I win I'd sooner not play.

WELLER：look at that, go to hell,

FONSIA：I can't help IT

WELLER：Oh, I get it, you can't help it if I don't know how to play GIN. I've played with some of the best.

FONSIA：a quit if you keep it.

WELLER：No, no, no, no, you're not gonna quit on me. Now.

FONSIA：would you like to play cards IF Someone shout at you all the time?

WELLER洗牌

WELLER：All right, all right, all right, all right. I'll try to watch my temper. One, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10. But I'll tell you something for, you know, it's not just me. I mean, that's enough to drive anybody up the wall.

两人看牌

WELLER：Finally a. Decent half.

FONSIA：Yeah, I got a good one too.

WELLER：You've always got a good one.

FONSIA：You take it too seriously. Weller. No, it's a game.

FONSIA又开始愉快哼曲，WELLER气鼓鼓看着她

FONSIA：Weller, you're getting so red in the face

WELLER：I got that wisdom. Look, you've got diabetes. I've got something else, play a card that would help.

FONSIA：I don't want you to have a stroke right here in front of me.

WELLER：don't worry about the stroke, you just worry about your cards. No help. Got any five, any six, or the seven of clubs, shit!

WELLER甩掉不需要的牌真是FONSIA需要的！FONSIA又赢！WELLER不可思议！

FONSIA：ahhhh,I got GIN

WELLER：I don't believe, let me see that ,no !!!!!!!!!!!bullshit!!!!!Jesus Christ .!!!!!!!!Jesus Christ almighty!!!!!

WELLER急了掀翻了桌子，FONSIA逃开

第三幕

WELLER：No, no, never mind. She's probably out here. FONSIA?Or she might be in the garden FONSIA, is that you out there? Answer me.

FONSIA：what is it?

WELLER：Well, I wanted to talk to you. It came pretty dark out there. You better come in.

FONSIA：I'll be in it a little while.

FONSIA：Why don't you just go on?

WELLER：Oh I'll just sit here till you're ready to come in.

FONSIA：Well, I want to be alone for a while out here.

WELLER：not my. I didn't mean to disturb you. Honestly, I don't mind sitting here waiting.

FONSIA：No, you're right, it is dark out there now. It was so pretty before with all the spring flowers.

WELLER：I'll get right to the point. I owe you an apology.

FONSIA：Yes you do .

WELLER：all right. I'm embarrassed by my own behavior yesterday and I sincerely apologize.

FONSIA：Oh, I can't tell whether you're joking or whether you really mean it.

WELLER：Of course I mean it. What do you expect me to say? That I behaved like a complete ass? I'm sorry that I upset you. Oh I I'm just sorry.that's all.

FONSIA： You frighten me, I don't think you realize how much your temper affects people.

WELLER：well I'm sure can be rather awesome at times, but there's nothing to be afraid of.

FONSIA：Oh, I don't think I'm so much afraid of what you're going to do to me. I don't know what's going to happen next. When you threw that table.

WELLER：oh......that was nothing. .....Wasn't directed at you anyway?

FONSIA：Well, it's still frightened me.

WELLER：Let's be realistic about this. No, except for the couple of times and I lost my temper, I think we've thoroughly enjoyed each other's company.

FONSIA：Oh, I enjoy your company, well, but you can’t GIN.

WELLER：What do you mean I can't play GIN?

FONSIA：I don’t mean You can't play Jim. I mean, you can't play gin without losing your temper.

WELLER：Jesus, next thing you know, you'll be thinking you're some sort of expert for Christ's sake

FONSIA：Oh ,no Lord knows I no expert, I just play like an expert.

WELLER：Oh Lord.

WELLER：now she's done. Well.

FONSIA：WELLER：I was teasing,

WELLER：where are those cards?

FONSIA：Because the Lord is my savior was only teasing.

WELLER：A lot of people tease, they say exactly what the hell they mean, and then they say, oh, no, no, no, no, no, I was only kidding.

WELLER：Where's my score pad? God, you can't keep a damn thing around this place.

FONSIA：Well, I am not going to play any GIN.

WELLER：come on, FONSIA,for God's sake.

FONSIA：I mean it.

WELLER：All right, don't play, go back in there with all those glassy eyed old bastards.

FONSIA：you should NOT talk about them that way, you're part of this thing here too.

WELLER：you know? Well, in that case I'm the part of it that's breathing. Don't kid yourself that this is anything more than a warehouse for the intellectually and emotionally dead, Nothing more than a place to store until their bodies.

FONSIA：God, you are cynical.

WELLER：No, no, it is not cynical, it's a fact.that's all

FONSIA：I'm talking about. I don't look at life that way, it's the mercy of God that we are able to get around a little better than they are. They're just sick that's all

WELLER：that so they're not half as sick as the ones who put them here, and they're not. A third is sick because that bunch is supposed to be taken care of.

FONSIA：Which side of this thing are you on anyway? Sometimes I think you're just looking for a fight.

WELLER：I'm just looking to mind my own business.

FONSIA：And you've got a horrible temper and a sarcastic ....

WELLER：So what? You know, if I were you, I wouldn't be talking about anyone else's shortcomings.

FONSIA：But WHAT that's supposed to mean?

WELLER：well, neither one of us is winning any popularity contest out here on Visitors day.

FONSIA：Oh, I see, nobody visits me. So I'm an evil person?

WELLER：You ever heard of Ty Cobb?

FONSIA：He played baseball.

WELLER：That's right Ty Cobb played baseball. He played baseball for 24 years. Do you know how many of his teammates showed up for his funeral? Three, kind of makes you feel HE maybe something less than a warm, loving human being,Well sir, he's three ahead of us on visitors.

FONSIA：Just what are you driving at Weller?

WELLER：Why doesn't your son come to visit?

FONSIA：Well, I told you he in Denver. I thought you understood that .

WELLER：Then why aren't you in an old age home in Denver? Or at least you think you'd come to see the .

FONSIA：I don’t want to talk about it. ....The Sunshine leaders are going to be here tonight. I think I'll go in and talk to them for a while.

WELLER：Help yourself.

FONSIA：I suppose. You think there's so many jerks too .

WELLER：now, I never said anything like that, there are dams. I'm more sincere than some that come out here, like that bunch that came looking for substitute grandparents. What was that called?

FONSIA：Extension family.

WELLER：that's it, extension. No, no, no, it wasn't extension .

FONSIA：extended.

WELLER：Extended .Unitarians wanted to psychoanalyze everything, for Christ's sake.

FONSIA：I wish you wouldn't take the Lord's name so much. Weller.

WELLER：what's it going to be, GIN or the Sunshine Ladies?

FONSIA：No.I think I should go in.

WELLER：we're not going to be here for an hour or more.

WELLER： God dammit, go ahead. I don't see how you can stand it in there that same day, empty look on face after face, you know, you ought to see him the day they changed the bad lemons. Well, maybe I have .All lined up in their wheelchairs, all up and down the halls like rows of wrinkle pumpkin heads.

FONSIA：Well, maybe we can play a few hands. You're going to piss to me until I do anyway.

WELLER：Well, what the hell else is there to do?

FONSIA：Not much, I guess.

WELLER：See if you can find my score pad?thank you.

FONSIA：I am so sick of TV and all that misses Lila wants to talk about is a funeral arrangements.

WELLER：You won't find a hot topic of conversation. I don't care who you talk to，not around here.

FONSIA同意打牌，WELLER开心起来，洗牌中

FONSIA：And my mother was that way. Father, I can remember funerals are the only social life she had. Well, now, if this isn't the popco, the Ke Black, here I sit talking about the same thing.

WELLER：that's what happens when you get too far away from GIN. Next thing you know, you'll be staring out the window all day long.

FONSIA：whether you're impossible.被打断

WELLER：1 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, and 11 for you.

FONSIA： if I win, don't you...

WELLER：Yeah, I fully expect you to win, and I promise to do my level best not to rant and rave about.

FONSIA：And I'm going to hold you to that.

WELLER：I swear upon you get yourself upset about the silliest things.Well.you do

 FONSIA：Sometimes I guess one thing used to worry me sick when I was working .

WELLER：what was that?

FONSIA：well, now this really is silly. I was always afraid I was going to misspell a word.

WELLER：That's a novel fear, boy,

FONSIA：that's the truth.I had to work after it , I worked as an apartment manager. Well, of course, I didn't have any education to speak of.

WELLER：Well, you've got a good mind .

FONSIA：still I was always afraid they'd find out.

WELLER：Find out what?

FONSIA：Well, I put down I graduated high school .

WELLER：for the Lord Saints. Father, you, who cares whether you graduated high school or not? My God, how old are you anyway,

FONSIA：71.

WELLER：71, and you're afraid someone's going to find out that 50 years ago you didn't graduate with your class? My God.

FONSIA又赢了！

FONSIA：Weller.

WELLER：You've got Jim, yeah. Oh, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it well. I'm stuck with 8.

WELLER：F！W ！F！W！ F！W！ You know, when you get GIN, you're supposed to put the discard face down.

FONSIA：oh I'm sorry.

WELLER：It's no big deal, it's just the way the game is played, that's all. That's the 8 plus 25 gives you 33. And of course, I get my customary goose egg.

FONSIA：Well, I can't help it. I'm sorry, .

WELLER：no，don't be sorry for me.for Christ's sake

FONSIA：I wish you could win one.

WELLER：You play your best. I'm not going have you trying to lose just to appease poor Weller. I'm one of the best damn gym players you'll ever see. One, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10,11. I sure as hell don't need any help from you.

FONSIA：all right Wella............... Transferred.

WELLER：what ?

FONSIA：transferred?

WELLER：What the hell are you talking about?

FONSIA：How many hours are there in the word?

WELLER：Oh God, transferred ,2, 3, what the hell?

FONSIA：There are three Rs in the word transfer. I had to look that word up every time I spelled it for 25 years. Well, of course, you get a lot of people transferred in the apartment business.

WELLER觉得不对劲突然说到！

WELLER：You're not paying any mind to what you're doing.

FONSIA：Yes, I am too.

WELLER：You just gave me the seven of hearts.

FONSIA：Well, I can't use it.

WELLER：I know, but I picked up a seven not more than 30 seconds ago. You knew I was keeping sevens. Now why did you give me another one?

FONSIA：Because I'm not keeping sentence.

WELLER：Well, I got the GIN, so you'll be pleased to know that your little plan worked!!!!

FONSIA：God, I .......

WELLER：God, I told you not to lose on purpose by God. And I meant it. I don't need you to let me win.!!

FONSIA：I am not letting you win.!Oh, I wish you could see yourself right now. Well going, if you could see yourself.you would not....

WELLER：. Where do you think you will go？ .

FONSIA：I think we should go in

WELLER：You sit right back down. Now we are nowhere, do you?  In fact we are just getting started it.

FONSIA：I do said you wouldn't get this way.

WELLER：I'm not getting anyway, all I'm asking you to do is to play the cards the way you normally would and try to win.

FONSIA：Well, I don't like this, I think you should try to see one of the doctors when they come by .

WELLER：having those cards over there.

FONSIA：Maybe the doctor could give you some pills.

WELLER：I'll worry about the doctors. You just play your cards and play them right.

WELLER：I'm going to get to the bottom of this. No, no, we're going to get to the bottom of it because you're going to help me. What we're going to do is we're going to find out exactly what forces at work here. Now, there's a reason that you constantly draw precisely the card you need and you do come hell or high water. Well I'm going to find out what that force is. One, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10,11.

FONSIA：Weller, I'm not feeling well.

WELLER：Play your cards!damn it.!!!!

WELLER：I'm sorry, please play your cards.

FONSIA：Well, this is ridiculous.

WELLER：I don't care whether it's ridiculous or not, discard.

WELLER：All right, now I'll discard and FONSIA will pick it up, won't you? She did, I told you. Didn't I tell you she would.

FONSIA：Well, who are you talking to .

WELLER：myself, to me and my little man here. You see there's a little man sitting right there. Now I'll discard and it's going to be exactly the card that FONSIA wants. What did I tell you? Christ controls my mind,  This time I'll trigger. I'm going to discard this card. I know at the last moment I changed my mind and discard that card. And she doesn't take it. By God, I think I've found the answer. You've been reading my mind, haven't? you what are you with some sort of witch? No, no, that's not. I know what it is. Divine intervention!That's what it is, divine......

FONSIA：stop it. Well.

WELLER：it is.

FONSIA：isn't it? It's late, I think we should go in.

WELLER：You've got it, haven't you? You've got GIN No, I have no, you've got to say so when you've got I down, if I want, you're sitting over there with Jim in your hands just waiting for me to go out.

FONSIA： I'll tell you, I need one more card and when I get it I'll tell you.

WELLER：Well, sir, you won't be getting any more help from me.

FONSIA：Well, I got it, there it is.

WELLER：who gave you that card? I want to know who gave you that card God gave you did. Did God give you that card?

FONSIA：Yes, yes, well, the God gave me that.

WELLER：Oh, come on, don't you patronize me, you bitch

FONSIA：Just who do you think you're talking to me!

沉默

WELLER：I shouldn't have called you that.

FONSIA：you call me that!

WELLER： No, no, no, don't go. I said I was sorry, that ought to be enough.  I said don't go.

FONSIA：go, go, one of the nurses.

WELLER：No, no, no, wait, wait a minute, what are you going to tell the nurse? I'm being held hostage by a maniac who was forcing me to blame you.

FONSIA：But I ought to tell her something.

FONSIA：One more half

WELLER：I promise? Just one more have.

FONSIA：This is so upsetting.

WELLER：Come on, just get these damn cards straightened out. What's the score? Fonzie, 1000. 10000. Oh, screw it.

FONSIA要离开，WELLER阻挡

WELLER：No, no, no, no, no, no, we've this one half,  quick！

WELLER：I promise this will be the last half. One, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10，11.

FONSIA：I hope this is quick I....

WELLER： I didn't deal your perfect hand? Boy, I must be slipping.

FONSIA：Just play the cards. Weller.

WELLER：just play the cards. Weller ,my aren't we getting tough?

FONSIA：Not tough, just tired,..... very tired.

WELLER：Well, all you have to do is just win this, god damn! just win this one real quick and we can go in.

WELLER：Son of a bitch!!!!!! No I'm talking about the card!!.

WELLER：Come on, for Christ's sake. God .damn

FONSIA：every second breath you draw has to be a curse word, doesn't it.

WELLER：shit!

WELLER抓不到想要的排，FONSIA要赢了！

WELLER：Say it? You've got it. Goddamn, and say it, say it. For Christ sake, you can say it louder than that. Again, hardly even hear .

FONSIA：you damn it GIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELLER：All right, we can go in....

第四幕 下雨天

FONSIA：Misses Mays just told me my sister Harley was waiting for me on the porch, came to see me.

WELLER：Oh, I thought you said she lived in Ottawa.

FONSIA：I did well.

WELLER：sir, no one's been out here.

FONSIA：I didn't expect they would be.

WELLER：how have you been? .

FONSIA：Mrs Mays isn't all that clever, you know.

WELLER：You can't pay any attention to anything she says. She doesn't even know what's going on.Half of that

FONSIA：. She got the message straight, all right.

WELLER：What am I supposed to say?

FONSIA：She said Mr Martin told me to tell you that she is waiting on the floor.

WELLER：I never told her any such thing.

FONSIA：who the hell  you think you're kidding? Well, you suppose I can believe that? Sister, I haven’t seen for 15 years I come out here .

WELLER： when you didn't believe it, So what the hell...Are you complaining ?

FONSIA：disgusting !that you go that far just to get me out?

WELLER：I don't give a damn....

FONSIA： Yes, you do, and I know why you want me out here. That GAME, you just can't get it off your mind.

WELLER：I haven't asked you to play all week

FONSIA：I haven't talked to you all week. So what I could have asked you to play by being so all fired hot about it?

FONSIA：You're not your mind I can tell that.

WELLER：WELL, what's so strange about that? Does that make me some sort of nut?

FONSIA：You just can't drop it. It was a game, Weller, you lost, it's over.so forget it

WELLER： suppose I do want to play it again.

FONSIA：Nothing doing. The minute you lost, it will be the same thing all over again. I may be old, but I'm not crazy.

WELLER：I'm not crazy either.

FONSIA：I've never seen a man get so wild over a game of cards in my life, it's not natural weller. something wrong.

WELLER：Oh, I know all about how you think there's something wrong with me, they called me down to the office last Tuesday and told me they were thinking of having a psychiatrist come out here to see me. Do you know what they could do if he said there was something wrong with my mind? They could have me committed to the state mental hospital. The very fact that you complain makes me a troublemaker.

FONSIA：but you could need help and not know it. There is such a thing as that to know. All I was trying to do was help you.

WELLER：God,  I don't need your help and don't you go judging me.

FONSIA：all right? Suit yourself. I just felt that as long as you got some money, it wouldn't hurt to have you talk to somebody .

WELLER：who told you I had money.

FONSIA：Well, you did. You had your own business and you did well, I thought, flying around the country, I just assumed that you were.

WELLER：oh, hell, I did it. Well, you're right. I built that goddamn business, and if I'd had a little better luck with my business partners I'd probably still have it. Christ, I was literally thrown out of my own business.

FONSIA：Well, how could they do that?Didn't you get....

WELLER：  it's too complicated....Yes, yes, I had some money, I had over $47000, but I made the mistake of getting sick. Then I made the mistake of getting well. I stated Bel Air Convalescent 2.5 years after my heart attack, and I had a relapse. Had to go to the hospital for four days. Those bastards at Bel Air wouldn't hold my bed. I didn't have any money left, so they didn't have to take me back. You know, I was placed here ,placed by some lonely, brainless bastard in the welfare department. I know you're trying to have me declare some sort of personality problem around here!!

FONSIA：Oh, well, maybe I shouldn't have said nothing. No, if I didn't say something, the next thing you know, they'd find one of us out here on the floor.

WELLER：Oh yeah, don't be ridiculous.

FONSIA：You may think it's ridiculous, but I'm the one that's getting shouted at and pushed around. And the way you look at me when you get like that, I just don't know what you might do.

WELLER：What do you think I'm going to do, hit over the head?

FONSIA：I just don't know.

WELLER：Oh, you just don't know. Good God, Fonsia, you make harsh judgments. I'm a potentially murderer, oh I'm crazy I'm vulgar according to you. I'm hopeless sinner for taking the Lord's name all the time. I'm dishonest in business.

FONSIA：I never said that. What the do?

WELLER：It is honest business. He, you didn't, you remember the guy who paid me 4000. No.

FONSIA：you said to himself it was only worth 500.

WELLER：I said it was worth whatever he was willing to pay.

FONSIA：Well, you're the one who has to live with it.

WELLER：You know what's wrong with most people in the world today? They have a mother who's just like you.

FONSIA：That is the most insulting remark I have ever heard in my life,.

WELLER： boy. I'll bet your SON is IN that HARD TIME ... .

FONSIA：that's personal is nothing you?

WELLER：I know why Larry doesn't visit you, I know what's never damn thing to do with or with distance or job or anything else. Like I know what it is now. You made him feel like the lowest piece of crap earth for so long that he can't stand the sight of you,HE hates you .

FONSIA绷不住了

FONSIA:that is not true...

WELLER：I'm I 被打断

FONSIA：won't have you talk to me that never done anything right?

WELLER：Has it never done a thing in this world? Well.被打断

FONSIA：you stop it. I'm warning you.

WELLER：he doesn't even live in Denver. So  .

FONSIA：that is the craziest thing I have ever heard my life.

WELLER：You are guilty of lying .FONSIA is a liar because your son lives right here in town and you know it.

FONSIA：He doesn't hate me, he does not hate me.

WELLER：why doesn't he visit you, why does he totally ignore his own mother?

FONSIA：He just doesn't bother, I guess. He just doesn't. How did you Know that he didn't? .

WELLER：I was guessing.

FONSIA大哭并捶打WELLER

FONSIA：GUESSING?!You BASTURD. You! YOU ..... and I hate you.

WELLER：Well, fonsia I'm sorry, not really, really I'm sorry.

FONSIA持续哭泣

WELLER：Lord, it's getting cold out here. Getting darker, too, and storms coming closer.

FONSIA：I did lie to you. I'm on welfare too.

FONSIA哭泣

WELLER：Well, well, I guess we just lived too long. Well.

FONSIA：I had a little money. The hospital bills, I don't look after myself. Plus I still had that little house on Ash Street I was trying to run. Well, of course, you can't expect your children to give up their lives. I fixed his plan on that house. By God, that went straight to the Presbyterian. Oh.

WELLER：well, I didn't mean all that that I said before you.

FONSIA：Whatever they want with it, that's one thing he won't get.

WELLER：Here comes the rain....

FONSIA：I know .., so I did so hope that Larry would be different, but after all I did for him, what does he happen to do about five years ago by trying to look up his father.... Oh my dead body, I told him you do that and you've seen the last of me. Sometimes I think he does hate me. I don't know..... .

WELLER：just getting yourself all upset . Yeah, there's not a thing in the world you can do, right? Try to relax. Seriously, you're only doing yourself harm.

天空打雷，weller开始抱怨，fonsia由哭转笑

WELLER：I hope that didn't hit the home. No, no, I guess it just hit a power line or something. What the hell is that? Look at that！ the goddamn roof is leaking again. You know, that was supposed to have this place renovated five years ago. Look at that, god damn robots. Jesus, the walls are so damn, the walls are so damn thin, you can poke your finger, right? The heat doesn't work. You know this place. Nothing but a goddamn slump. That is a goddamn. Everything is falling apart. Look.

FONSIA：look, look.

WELLER：Now there's a perfect example of exactly what I'm talking about. That switch must be on there down nearly a 45 degree angle. I don't know how drunk a man would have to be to think that that's straight up in God.

FONSIA：Oh, I know it, so .

WELLER：I guess it's going to rain all afternoon.

FONSIA：I think.

WELLER：Well, come on. I'll play your hand to GIN.

WELLER又开始让FONSIA玩牌，FONSIA拒绝，WELLER持续强硬输出

FONSIA：You know Weller, you can be such an enjoyable person to be with. You got a wonderful sense of humor. If it wasn't for that damn Gin game.

WELLER：my goodness, fonsia of such language?

FONSIA：Weller, I played all the cards I'm going to be.

WELLER：but now we're playing G.

FONSIA：alright, that's it. Well you're not gonna drop this G game that listen, and I am not gonna play. So there's no reason for us to sit and fight over it all.

WELLER：You stay right where you are.

FONSIA：It's the only thing I know to do.

WELLER：What do you mean it's the only thing you know to do? You came out here, didn't?

FONSIA：Yes, I did, but certainly not to play Gin.

WELLER：All I wanted for all you was to manipulate. Now we've been playing your game, now we're going to play mine.

FONSIA：I'm not going to go into this with you.

WELLER：You know, you, your sister, she was out here, you saw through my little plan and you came out anyway! Now you can't tell me you didn't enjoy beating me game after game, watching me get angrier and angrier....

FONSIA：taking a chance our Lord knows what kind of ....

WELLER：Oh, don't be ridiculous.

FONSIA：I don't think I am ridiculous when I say that. When you lose that temper of yours, I think you're not capable of.

WELLER： when you get off that, for Christ sake, come over here and sit down.

WELLER动手要拽FONSIA到椅子上玩牌，FONSIA拒绝表示想进屋去了。。。

FONSIA：No, no, I am going in, no, no.

WELLER：no I'm not going to let you go in there. Don't tell them I'm crazy.

FONSIA：Let me go ！take a hand off me!

WELLER：. It's quiet, they'll hear you!

FONSIA：I hope they do!

WELLER：God, you do, don't you? You'd like nothing better than to get back in there and tell them to be out here shouting at you again. That'll do the trick. Been victim of that's what you are, been victim .screw your own son out of that house just to get even for God knows what reason.被FONSIA大喊打断！

FONSIA：That's my business, god damn it. And you can just shut up about it. Who do you think you are anyway? Maybe I had good reason for what I did, you just don't know the situation. All you came out of the world is that damn Gin game, you're the one who's been crazy, say nothing to me .just because I .won't play , .

WELLER：sit down!all right.

WELLER强硬拽FONSIA坐下

FONSIA：God damn you!!!!

WELLER：Now we'll play one game and you play to win.God damn it

FONSIA：. Don't you worry about that

WELLER：This is it, this is the game .

WELLER：1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6,FONSIA没好气的模仿WELLER数后面的数字 7, 7, ,8, 8, 9, 9, 10,10. I'm going to beat you this game, by God. I'm gonna be.

FONSIA：I don't know what makes you think it's gonna be any different This time?

WELLER：, don't you get smart?

FONSIA：IM NOT Getting smart, it's the truth. If you played this game so well you got beaten me long time ago.

WELLER：.Shut up, goddamn, and I'll show you who's gonna win you just concentrate on your car.

FONSIA：it's your discard.

WELLER：I know it's my discard.

FONSIA：I hope you do lose, I hope you lose so badly.!!! Oh .

WELLER：Jesus Christ, another choir boy, that's all we need is another choir, HERE HERE HERE HERE HERE !why don't you pick up my discard?! You can't do it ?CAN YOU ?, no, no, it's gonna take more than luck this time.

FONSIA：no, you have to be the victim of bad luck, don't you?

WELLER：Watch your cards.

FONSIA：because if it wasn't bad luck, it'd have to be something else.

WELLER：I said watch your cards .

FONSIA：to be something like maybe you think you play this game a whole lot better than you really play it.

WELLER：God damn, you're asking for it!!!!!

FONSIA：It has to be back with your business partner that it have to be something like bad judgment or worse yet, maybe they were better business men than you were.

WELLER：You shut your fucking mouth!!! You don't know the first thing about.

FONSIA：Don't you use that word in my presence?!!

WELLER：I use any fucking word I please!!.

FONSIA：You're just like the one I loved. A filthy, foul mouth. That was his word. Then I was with a two year old baby listening to such .....

WELLER：I'm sure he had damn good reason for using it...

FONSIA：but I fixed his wagon. He came home one night with half a load on and I had everything he owned right on the street. I mean, right on the street. And that was the end of that.

WELLER：I am not your damn ......

FONSIA：and I would have had you in jail so fast,   don't you think? I wouldn't? Besides , it was too much of a coward to do that anyway.

WELLER：you don't have too many kind things to say about the men in your life, do you?

FONSIA：I'll admit it, when it comes to men, I have been very unlucky.

WELLER：You mean what?

FONSIA：I have not much success. ...

WELLER：No, you've been unlucky.right? Sounds like about the same kind, about like you've been telling me about. It had to be bad luck, didn't it? Because if it wasn't bad luck, it had to be the fact that maybe it was you, that maybe you're a rigid self, bitches..selfish....

FONSIA：All right, all right, all right. You Made a point. Just be quiet and play the cards.

WELLER：God, you want this one? This is the one you want. I'm going to have to give it to you two .

FONSIA：dam, stupid. You gave me a king 3 plays ago.

WELLER：I'll take it. I didn't have any choice, idiot!

FONSIA：Don't you call me an idiot!!!!!! You don't you ever call me an idiot, you!!!!!!!! Fuck!!!!！！！

FONSIA惊了自己说出f word

FONSIA：I have never said that word in my life.

WELLER：Play a card.all right?

FONSIA：God damn you....

WELLER：Now, now we will see whos stupid. 1 card, 1 card. Now let's see who's the idiot?

FONSIA：shut up

WELLER：No, be it, be it, be it, it God damn so close!

FONSIA又赢了！WELLER 完全崩溃！

FONSIA：That's gin.

WELLER：GIN!

FONSIA：Gin

WELLER边拿起拐杖边说GIN边打桌子!

WELLER：GIN!GIN!GIN!GIN!GIN!GIN!

WELLER最后哭泣绝望离开........独剩FONSIA.....

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