Contents

Introduction

Background

Characters

Act 1

Scene 1 A Riverfront Street

Scene 2 Backroom of the Friendly Bar

Scene 3 Doyle Parlor

Scene 4 On Stoop Outside Doyle Tenement

Scene 5 Doyle Parlor

Scene 6 An Active Pier

Scene 7 A Loft in the Pier

Scene 8 Father Barry’s Study and the Church Basement

Scene 9 A Riverfront Street

Scene 10 Edie’s Bedroom

Scene 11 Terry’s Rooftop

Act 2

Scene 1 Father Barry’s Study

Scene 2 The Hold of a Freighter

Scene 3 Terry’s Rooftop

Scene 4 Outside the Church

Scene 5 The Friendly Bar

Scene 6 An Abandoned Pier

Scene 7 Edie’s Bedroom

Scene 8 A Riverfront Street

Scene 9 A Friendly Bar

Scene 10 Hearing Rooms: Archdiocese and Crime Commission

Scene 11 Terry’s Rooftop

Scene 12 Active Pier

Scene 13 St. Timothy’s Church Sacristy

Scene 14 St. Timothy’s Church

A Biography of Budd Schulberg