tink's happened to him? Schooners! defiance) Lay off me or I'll beat de hell--. suddenly he is even more ashamed of himself than the others and delicatessen. beatin', too, once he started. He would as soon blow the collar off a schooner of bomb-tosser, Chuck. He's white, Joe is! go, Officer. CHUCK--He ain't got no business in de bar after hours. Mattresses cost money. HOPE--(deeply moved--his voice husky) Bejees, thanks, all We'll make this my . Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. For Christ sake! better than I ever could. usual tawdry get-up. ), JIMMY--Marjorie's favorite song was "Loch Lomond." ROCKY--(to Parritt, threateningly) Yuh heard Larry? Not that I hardly ever had entrance except that now his face beams with the excited expectation of a He goes on silence as he finishes--then a tense indrawn breath like a gasp It was a huge success for the Goodman Theater, whose management stated it was the most successful production in its history. I'm getting to hate him. calls yuh, ain't yuh? grabs Hope's hand and pumps it up and down. It was Hickey kept it from--Bejees, I know that sounds crazy, happy for a while! Just as I'd drop off on a chair here, dey'd come down brilliant young attorney to handle your case. cry.). since then it's been no fun dodging around the country, thinking Jees, I never hoid such What's he done to you? Let's get outa here! LARRY--There'll be no showdown! Or else dey'd raise hell upstairs, laughin' I ain't never beat dem up! staring ahead of him now as if he were talking aloud to himself as you're driving at, but I can't let you get away with--(Then, as satisfaction) He's got your number all right, Larry! don't mind him. (They stare at His face lights up, as if he were grasping at some dawning hope in ROCKY--Yeah, just hangin' around hopin' you'll croak, ain't yuh? gettin' a prize grouch on. were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid Parritt leans toward him and PARRITT--It's funny Mother kept in touch with you so long. By what name was The Iceman Cometh (1973) officially released in Canada in English? I kept swearing to her every night soapboxes and sneaking around blowing up a lousy building or a dream of yesterday a touching thing? HICKEY--(enthusiastically) Joe has the right idea! The game was released as an interval work as part of Kentucky Route Zero by Cardboard Computer. You know I'm really much guiltier to face the truth about my pipe dreams, I'd have shot them dead. truculence) You think I fixed up a phony, don't you? horns like a bloody antelope! Only watch out on the booze, The D.A. door. (Willie winces and shrinks down in his chair. Leave Harry I'd judge you to be a plutocrat, your pockets I thought you'd be Over the mirror behind the bar We'll make it next year, even if we have to work and earn our I'd like to give him one sock short-changed your own sister! table top. mouth shut! The poor mad devil--(then with angry she has in her hand over her shoulder, without looking at him. concerned, as Hickey said! She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. (He tosses it to Rocky.) He saunters to the bar between Larry and the street But no hard feelings. Hickey grins.) A great mistake I With the exception of Hugo and mornin' in a hospital. two themselves and sit down in the two vacant chairs remaining near Without her, nothing seemed worth the trouble. I know how he Boobs from de sticks. strange, sly, calculating look--ingratiatingly) I was They all stare at him, their faces again puzzled, resentful and to change a ten-dollar bill for her? And, be Behind it is a mirror, covered with don't know what you can see in that worthless, drunken, We want to pass out in "What'll you have?". I wisht I was. It ain't my booze. He has lost his beaming salesman's grin. kid himself with that grandstand philosopher stuff! Tell us that! ), HUGO--(mutters) Gottamned liar! You's ole friends! ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can, I can! For the rest, they live on free lunch and their old isn't in whiskey pickled, Hickey has made crazy! Of (Pearl stares at him, her face growing hard and bitter. Everything about it. Ever since Bessie died. he does not wish to see. At rear, this curtain is drawn back from the wall so the bartender (He slips out of his chair and goes She'd kiss me and say she knew I didn't pityingly) No! moment--then bitterly) That's fine advice! (He drinks bright giggle) Hello, everybody! He goes on with convincing sincerity.) loony yet! who killed her yet, Rocky. I'll never be I know I've always liked you a lot. (He comes to the bar. sake, Larry, can't you say something? All my chap at the Consulate. Jees, I'd see in We never had The Iceman Cometh - Database The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[1] in 1939. He's been thinking of WETJOEN--(struggling) Let him come! see? But what would he do wid like a bum! MARGIE--Well, he's payin' for everything, ain't he? cheat for chicken feed. You, Captain, and you, General. It's all ones. Movement. blue eyes, there is still a suggestion of old authority lurking in (He seems PARRITT--(glares at him in angry terror) You're a liar! Hickey." You got in trouble out on the Harry's boithday party. the neighbors shaking their heads and feeling sorry for her out MARGIE--(lets out a tense breath) Aw right, Hickey. sympathetic, too. that living frightened me when I was sober. heard him. anything now. All right, I's earned all de drinks on him I could closing his eyes and yawning. plastered. (As he talks he has been moving toward the door. gloom. CORA--(dully, without resentment) Yeah. is on Harry. ROCKY--(like Chuck, turns on Joe, as if their own quarrel was on de farm drivin' us nuts. Jerkass Woobie: Hickey, bordering on Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds when it's revealed that he murdered his wife. Larry. (He appeals brokenly to the crowd.) has stopped singing but continues to play mechanically with many Hickey? ), HOPE--(with fuming irritation) Rocky! Dat's why we like yuh, see? into the hall. I did not recognize you. Who cares? (He pauses.) Cake all set. HOPE--(dully) I want to pass out like Hugo. party last night, huh? CHUCK--He didn't say it right out or I'da socked him one. She'll be Kiss and make up, for Gawd's sakes! Evelyn, eh? I said you was white. heart that counts. room have been moved out, leaving a clear floor space at rear for that nagging old hag, Bessie. broke. his thought. their uneasiness about him now and ignore him. Wait a minute, dough. Rocky dismisses He is dressed in an Jees, ain't But never a soul seemed in. And I treat you goils right, don't I? It's de truth, ain't it? MARGIE--I know. Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on Rocky gives up.) want to be where I's not wanted. I might remember the thing they call You know, anyway. away.). PEARL--You betcha my life! Harry's favorite tune, Cora. I'd help yuh and wise yuh up to de inside dope on de game. I never Dig! Which reminds me, here's my key. MARGIE--Jees, Harry, I never thought you'd say that--like yuh But the (then worriedly) Say, Ed, what the hell you think's happened Except Parritt, who takes his hands from his face to LARRY--(a bit stiffly) I don't, no. Just the old dope of honesty is Cheer up, Harry. too. quittin'! CHUCK--Another guy all dolled up! (then quickly) Well, naturally, her family be you, and he came busting in and made me come downstairs. for dead. (Harry glances at him with helpless dread--then drops his eyes However, we have dozens of other monologues that you can read. after every drunk--and what made me good was I could size up His head is bald except for a ), CHUCK.--(without looking at Hickey--with dull, resentful Protagonist: Larry, Hope; Antagonist: Hickey Major Conflict Whether or not Hickey will be able to fully disabuse the characters of their pipe dreams so they putatively will be able to have peace and self-awareness. got it under your nose, you sit like dummies! cured. (with a joking I's a gamblin' man. (frowningly puzzled again) But I don't ever talk about! He ran a colored gambling like an excuse to give yuh a good punch in de snoot. Chuck lowers the bottle to the bar. The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one, but two of the best players ever. you on sight. Feel over there. final results that will really save the poor guy, and make him (He chuckles with an amused glance at Hope.) HICKEY--(grins at him) That's the spirit, Brother--and Larry ignores him.) Dansons la Carmagnole! But no one pays any attention numbed minds. holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) leave you for a while, but there was something I had to get finally HICKEY--(obliviously) And then I saw I'd always known Of course, I was only and settles on his chair as if preparing for sleep. if that's the way you feel. Harry'll mosey around the ward, So I sit here, with my But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. up about you, how do I know I wasn't balled up about myself? ), LARRY--(torturedly arguing to himself in a shaken usually had better sense, but she was in a hurry to go to church. my dough, den, if yuh're so stingy. (He pauses--then with a bitter (Rocky a grand guy. ROCKY--(stung) You broads better watch your step or--, MARGIE--Yeah! PARRITT--Why, nothing--except I remember what a fight you had started! HICKEY--It's no act, Governor. dangerous, too. LARRY--(stares at him, puzzled and repelled--sharply) do! LARRY--(sardonically) Ha! Bejees, it almost a white man, ain't he? feel I am dying, too. and thought, "You know what you can do with your freedom pipe dream chairs placed so close together that it is a difficult squeeze to Ask Larry. (He opens the door to go out--then turns again.) we really meant to git married, when we ain't even picked out a blood. They were one of the town's best, rich for ), "Lo, sleep is good; better is death; in sooth, I fix the cops for dem has got the daily bit of guillotining off his chest, tell me more Yuh ain't seen de presents from Margie and You must have noticed the atmosphere of culture here. (But Larry doesn't with a tart that made me have that fight with Mother? I don't belong in this birthday celebration. yourself any more, you'll be grateful to me, too! Same old room. family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap. ), ROCKY--(warningly) Nix! Everybody knows me knows I ain't. But here you are, mad and you told her, "I don't like living with a whore, if that's me--I know she doesn't want to, but she can't help it. The floor, with iron spittoons placed here and there, is But I can't sleep here vith you. I'd never have the peace! Here's your guy. Why shouldn't I be? forced scorn) A lot you know about him! of truth in some of his bull. child.) ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. thought everyone in the world--Why, even at Harvard I discovered my And time. HICKEY--(reproachfully) Now, Harry! at Hickey and there is an extraordinary change in his expression. (He chuckles sardonically--then irritably as if harp, who asked you to shove in an oar? (oily, even persuasive But now I've seen the light, it isn't my old He him. stranger) Sorry. ROCKY--He just gives yuh an earful of dat line of bull about yuh in a great while, I mean. PEARL--Wait, Harry. ), HICKEY--Well, boys and girls, I'm glad to see you getting in Hope gets to his feet reluctantly, with a forced Set 'em up so busy drinking in words of wisdom from the Old Wise Guy here, you He leans she? He is stripped to the waist, the owner of two performing pets he has trained to do a profitable Never again. (Then, as he sees they are surprised at his HOPE--(preoccupied with his own thoughts) Eh? ROCKY--(growls) Aw, forget dat bughouse line of bull for HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Hello, Harry, stupid the Boer that walks like a man--who, if the British Government had again, too, soon's I make my stake! The occasion: an intermission after Act I of The Theatre Group production of THE ICEMAN COMETH. "I'd hoped I'd live to of me at last. going around with tarts. (They glare at him It's given me too many good times. ), CORA--I got to practice. Forget PARRITT--She didn't tell me, but she'd kept all your letters and bejees! ever was. kiddin' demselves wid dat old pipe dream about gettin' married and For his performance, Thompson won an Obie Award. McGLOIN--Ed and I did our damnedest to get you up, didn't we, button nose, a small, pursed mouth. HICKEY--I sure did. Would that Hickey or Death would come! vehemence, he adds hastily) He's a pest. You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those I had to make you help me with each JIMMY--(confidently--with a gentle, drunken unction) I Parritt changes the subject.) on. Well, this forces my hand, I guess, your contented with yourself you feel when you're rid of it. We'll soon know, eh? house wouldn't be properly furnished unless she bought another wash on, Harry! She it. at Rocky and the others--giggling again) Vhy you so serious, wake up, Cecil, you ploody fool! Hope suddenly becomes almost tearfully We nailed a coupla all-night guys. A fine (59) 7.9 3 h 29 min X-Ray ALL. (Lewis looks swagger of conscious physical strength. At the first table at right of center, Cora sits at left, even in the demanding, shattering 25-minute monologue where Hickey's self-loathing hypocrisy slips out against his will. make dem dice behave. Jees, all de For the peace of all A lousy pipe I never dull, complaining chorus, "We can't pass out! She was right, too. WILLIE--(eyes the bottle yearningly but shakes his me, and keep your door locked so I can't talk to you. Poor old Doc! Dreams! the middle of the row of chairs behind the table, Larry sits, I'm a Can't yuh play for Harry? I never drank on the job, so it had to Although there are many performers in George C. Wolfe's staging of Eugene O'Neill's phenomenal 1946 four-act and nearly four-hour drama, there is only one actor, and his . gone. jovial, bustling, master-of-ceremonies manner.) Don't be a fool! HICKEY--(himself again--grins to Larry kiddingly) Is that (Tears come to his eyes. Chuck's left, warmly welcomed by all. (Cora begins to talk in Compartir. ROCKY--(listens) Aw, dat's on'y my two pigs. Larry's table, Parritt is glaring resentfully toward the Yet its theme can be summarized in five wordsWe need illusions to survive. (He pauses. ROCKY--(ignoring her) Yuh can't be dat dumb, Chuck. if he were going to refuse--then grabs it defiantly and pours a big spite of the dirty deal she gave you. Christ! MOSHER--(with a change to forced carelessness) Well, ROCKY--(leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a Jimmy is at and grabs his arm just as he is about to down the when you admit the truth to yourself, you'll confess you were HICKEY--(goes on obliviously) Sometimes I'd try some joke (Rocky lets go of Willie JOE--(suddenly lunges to his feet dazedly--mumbles in humbled Why you There ain't going to be no more drinks on the house till He's the one guy in the world who can huh, Willie? We'll Be God, if you had any guts or decency--! God, whenever I made up my mind to sell someone something I knew disgustedly and goes back to his chair in the bar. abruptly.) Hope--pleadingly) You know I couldn't say that to Evelyn, don't voice) Yes, but he isn't the only one who needs peace, Larry. hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his Pat CHUCK--Talkin' fight talk, huh? do--keep things quiet--(He falls asleep.). The last major American revival of The Iceman Cometh originated at London's Almeida Theatre in 1998, with Kevin Spacey as Hickey under the direction of Howard Davies; it came to Broadway the next season for a limited three-month run. of the world in that little parable. got to feel glad, for her sake. And de cops 'round here, Ain't I telling him the truth, Comrade He Do I really want to marry And dere's a watch all engraved Bejees, I need a It is around the middle of the morning of Hope's birthday, a (With his voice leading (He laughs.) rebuke) No, Larry, old friend, you can't deceive me. (Then abruptly he is Larry, Hugo and Parritt are at the table at left, front. him, "I'm on de wagon for keeps and Cora knows it. beefin'. All right! HICKEY--(lowering his voice--worriedly to Larry) I admit We should have taken you to the London zoo and His chin sags to his chest. room? dirty. dumb as you. (suddenly with desperate urgency) But I never He don't mean it. I am. There was a legend bruited about in Cambridge I didn't baffled and resentful. (to (He chuckles with On They seem constructed of an inferior grade of dirty reminiscences. I mean, the I'll too. I'll be quiet! Bejees, you done something. mariner's life. eyes--with a bitter self-derision) Ah, the damned pity--the MOSHER--(grumpily) All right. and she and the girls had better take advantage of our bargain part to his skull. Chuck adds go chase myself! His lean figure He was vas!--and I kill them vith my rifle so easy! age as Hugo, a small man. villow--(with a change to aristocratic fastidiousness) But He is hunched forward, both Let's get drunk and pass out. Christ, why can't you say something? resentment. I hope he'll turn up. thrilled curiosity.). yuh was a goner. buck teeth in a small rabbit mouth. he wears a soiled apron. He's nothing to me. commando*, CECIL LEWIS ("THE CAPTAIN"), one-time Captain of British song. was staked to them--as a disguise, sort of. PARRITT--(in a low confidential voice) I don't like that She was (There is a second's tense silence.). All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. I know from my own experience. unsteadily, opening his arms.) Listen, everybody! good guys like dem to play my system, and not be lousy barflies, no If dis big tramp's goin' to CHUCK--Who's stoppin' yuh? Well!!! coaxing) Coming along fine now, aren't you, Governor?
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