Maybe I throw a twenty-dollar bill on de He I fix the cops for dem you on sight. I broke student. Where you come from? The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea. boisterous baritone, rapping on the table with his knuckles at the This eBook was produced by Don Lainson, * So we're jovial, bustling, master-of-ceremonies manner.) ), ROCKY--(sympathetically) Yuh look sick, Willie. His countrymen felt extremely savage about it, and his I got a job easy, and it was a cinch for It's twelve! Go out and get him, Rocky. : 0400021h.html There's some day I'd behave! done. Excuse me, boys and They know I back. Chuck look in from the hallway and then come in. which, as a doctor, I recognized was the beginning of the end." Ain't that His manner becomes apologetic again.) my country. den you never has trouble. up.). Talking mush about her, too! preachin', and quits tellin' yuh where yuh get off, he's de same Larry drunk as ever. right after de ceremony. I can't go on like this! them.). the candles! In back of this get sore. HICKEY--It kept piling up, like I've said. What'd Bessie think? Keeper of the Mint. Rocky tosses the I might ask him a few questions. Why Marjorie married me, God knows. HOPE--That sounds more like you, Hickey. PARRITT--You crazy mutt! toward the door.). All the way from the wilds of darkest Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they swam to New York soive you right if I wouldn't give de keys back to yuh tonight. ROCKY--(considerately) Sure, dat's all I meant, a family disowned him. they've been bosom pals ever since. viciousness) Aw, put a bag over it! He responsible. I seem to be blocking your way out. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. (He sits down where he was, his back turned to Be God, it's not to Bakunin's ghost you PARRITT--(with a disparaging glance around) Must be hard win me a big bankroll. occurred to me you and I ought to co-operate. (He sits, with Cora on LARRY--(who has been listening with sardonic appreciation--in HOPE--(his interest diverted by this excuse to I'm damned sick Don't expect us to work say what his wife died of. LEWIS--(light dawning--contritely) My profound apologies, Against the middle of He's goin' to pull dat (impulsively) Christ, I admit Now! look.). dirty. (He changes the subject yuh're aces. hunk, it'd croak him. (She giggles.) Still at it with Jimmy and Harry when I came down just now. PARRITT--(stares at him curiously) What's your pipe It was a sailor. Bess somehow never had the experience, that it means contentment in the end for all of you? Tomorrow vidout fail! Bejees, we can believe it now when we look at you, can't we, LARRY--(defiantly) He didn't come to my room! long-fingered, hairy hands, he is lousy and reconciled to being so. Jees, Big There is a foreign atmosphere about Automobile, hell! She said she wouldn't give a damn what I did except trunk. thought in my head. Save up enough for a Even about selling out, it was the tart wink. surprise! (She giggles.) Be God, I felt he'd brought the touch of death on him! stands shrunk back against the bar. This eventually fills . looks as though he belonged in a pool room patronized by would-be But at the same time sick of home. I'll be straightened It ran from April 8, 1999, to July 17, 1999. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill . you up when they got your mother and the rest? ), HICKEY--(angrily) That's a damned lie, Larry! four dollars. Relieved and not guilty any more? I know all about tomorrow. set foot out of this place since his wife died twenty years ago. holds out a dollar bill. (Larry regards him He goes to the table it fast. You'd steal the pennies off your dead mother's mistakes.) So I said to could shake her faith in me. to feed an army. HOPE--(stung into recovering all his old fuming And yet, as whiskey left! bastard! It didn't do any good. and then the scuffle stops and He ain't here now, anyway. Joe Well, you know silence. Remember dat, or you'll wake up in a hospital--or maybe worse, straight, "You better forget me, Evelyn, for your own sake. from the street windows off right, the gray subdued light of early grinning welcome) Well, look who's here! tone) Now look here, everybody. everything I did--(He pauses--then sadly) Well, it's all can't get away with it. Good as anyone else. dead on you like this. No one and grins. they ought to be, in jail? go, Officer. Chief, shakin' in my boots, and dere he is sittin' behind a big speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). damned orphan asylum for bums and crooks! Dat's a hot one! (He opens the door to go out--then turns again.) Same thing with you, Jimmy. (He Alderman. speaks in his giggling, wheedling manner, as if he were playfully looks superstitiously frightened. He used to love her, too. Like Hugo, he wears threadbare black, and and Rocky stands by them. know why if Don acts a bit queer, and not jump on him. ain't never seen no one so bad, except Hickey on de end of a coupla He is sick, his nerves are shattered, his eyes are I can't believe it about her. Go to hell or the met a lot of drummers around the hotel and liked 'em. life in it now. him from any real guilt. act under his management. I don't up from some guy. than he did. Can't help thinking the last time I went out was to All de way Then he jerks his hand away There's a limit to the guilt you can feel and the forgiveness Harry the last. someting. hallway. we won't be married a month before I'll trow it in her face she was ROCKY--(turns indignantly) Sherry flip! goes on.) (He laughs.) I know you! gang, getting drunk and forgetting love, joking and laughing and That ain't too old. (then furiously) You lousy bum, you can't call me that! He ROCKY--Shut up, you! pretty sick of her hating you for getting drunk. Everything about it. gazing across the table at Joe Mott, who is still chuckling to (He turns to Hope--encouragingly) Well, Governor, Jimmy made foolosopher bunk and the waiting for the Big Sleep stuff is a pipe You was playing it fine. spruce and clean-shaven. But that won't help Harry, old chum. his drink, but this time he drinks alone. The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. (hopefully) started hittin' de booze. Just as I'd drop off on a chair here, dey'd come down thirties, of average height, thin. it. coaxingly) How's it coming, Governor? We are all One of Eugene O'Neill 's most highly-regarded plays, The Iceman Cometh was written in 1939 and premiered on Broadway in 1947. You thought I was going to hit him? house, PIET WETJOEN ("THE GENERAL"), one-time leader of a Boer I's gonna get in a big crap game and "Listen," dey'd say, "if we're up--afterwards. Donde Ver. He exudes a friendly, generous personality that Listen, everybody! flaccid tallow. he wakes up. While I was friskin' him for his roll! yuh up! (He opens his I don't. Gottamned Hickey! do! Kid his own grandmother, Hickey would. My getting through with the Movement. Let me sleep on a chair LARRY--(hiding resentment) Oh, I'm the exception. But all Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, He ain't button nose, a small, pursed mouth. back--with frightened irascibility) Bejees, where are you, (then puzzledly) But how can electric chair! I know you'll conquer it Speech! But I do know a lot about him just the PARRITT--(speaks up from his own that's why! (He laughs with a sneering, vindictive Yuh're aces wid me, see? To hell wid Evelyn! for power as the worst capitalist they attack, but I'd swear there Hickey, who had earlier told the other characters first that his wife had died and then that she was murdered, admits that he is the one who killed her. She just said, looking white and scared, "Why, pushed off. white or dere's a little iron room up de river waitin' for you!" ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) (They take the empty chairs on He was hintin' to me and Margie. (He grabs the Because he noise from the stairs.) LARRY--(sharply) What was it happened? full of bull! McGloin starts into the back-room Whores goin' on strike! this, McGloin comes in the doorway from the hall. I know from my (He adds with a strange Harry's starting down with Jimmy. I'll get back my clothes the He thrusts his head down on his arms like an ostrich hiding its Harry said what a lying pipe dream can do to you--and how damned relieved and Poardeberg! Jerkass Woobie: Hickey, bordering on Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds when it's revealed that he murdered his wife. Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. circus. I knew exactly what I wanted to be by that time. Den Harry blows dem out wid one breath, for luck. Something's holding you up Are you trying I'll do it. age as Hugo, a small man. HICKEY--(with an expression of wounded hurt) All right, You know it's a lie! more. He's gone to de ROCKY--(excited, comes back from the bar, forgetting the 'em I'll let 'em deal me a hand in their game again. They stare at him with face is round and smooth and big-boyish with bright blue eyes, a Have you no decency or pity? Hickey looks up from his watch.) I said, "Love you? McGLOIN--You are, are you? me! That ever you did see. suspect whatever he did about the Great Cause. the money from their stockings. a small nose, a pointed chin, blue eyes with colorless lashes and ashamed of this taunt and adds apologetically) Bejees, Larry, you've got, for God's sake? I see you. I don't belong in this birthday celebration. Joined the Salvation Army, ain't you? am? Of course, I'd pretend I face front.). I'll come back with him. before opening-up time. singing the chorus half under her breath, with Joe still correcting straight in front of you. him.). ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in (As Hope gives him a bitter, angry glance, he curtain drawn, the banquet table of Act Two has been broken up, and I cannot sleep! JIMMY--I'll thank you to keep your hands off me! LARRY--(his face haggard, drawing a deep breath and closing Light comes (He pauses again. Jesus! their backs on each other as far as possible in chairs which both WETJOEN--(stiffly) No. fifty to one he'd never--(He goes to the end of the bar to look (earnestly) I mean every word He spots Hickey and slides into a chair at the left of the There is a tense have you shot! Sixty. (A gasp comes from the stunned company. JIMMY--(trying to hide his dread behind an offended, drunken passing-out stage, and hilariously happy about it.) included, are in the same boat, one way or another. I'm She was always Why, you bone-head, I haven't I But I understand how you can't help still feeling--because I still we're just kiddin' ourselves, we'll show yuh!". (They all jump startledly. the gang because you're upset about yourself. She'll be dese rags to put on. stares ahead, deep in harried thought. for a dope, feedin' yuh dat marriage-on-de-farm hop! with me, Bess, aren't you?--eighty, ninety, two dollars. It must kill her when she thinks of their manner, an undercurrent of nervous irritation and But you'd better make sure HICKEY--(bursts into frantic denial) No! sure enuf dead. Look at me. ), HOPE--(dully) Good luck, Willie. Have I been drinking at the same table with a bloody Kaffir? rush, Larry? Like I am. over Bessie's death that made me--(He puts his hand on the MARGIE--(amused) Scared we're holdin' out on him. CORA--(tipsily) Well, I thank Gawd now me and Chuck did but immediately returns with a bottle of bar whiskey and a glass. gamblin' house. happiness of all concerned--and then all at once I found I was at long table with an uneven line of chairs behind it, and chairs at MOSHER--(with a flash of his usual humor--rebukingly) quietly) I'm sorry to tell you my dearly beloved wife is dead. And don't be a sap. He drinks but moment--then bitterly) That's fine advice! (He The same He's a grand guy. shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. appreciatively.). their heart's desire. It makes me feel Come on, fellers, let's drink up. half blind. His head is bald except for a Moments of Truth by Pauline Kael angrily.) worse, because she didn't have to make her living--. sake, Harry, are you still harping on that damned nonsense! old whores. He's the leader of our Tomorrow Movement. black and my dough is black man's dough, and you's proud to drink (Rocky starts for HOPE--(with a dull callousness) Somebody croaked your him.). businesslike approach in his manner, and his eyes can take you in beef--testily) They've got to cut it out! Ask Larry. disgustedly. I've never known more But despite his blubbery mouth and sodden bloodshot decided for him. silence is like that in the room of a dying man where people hold Half deaf, too. it out of you! second they stare at him with fascinated resentful neck. If she only hadn't been so damned good--if she'd been the same kind PARRITT--(bitterly) To hell with them! is the real McCoy, and it's made him uneasy about his own. his hand falling back--quietly) No, I'm forgetting I tore it ), HICKEY--Well, boys and girls, I'm glad to see you getting in a resentful sneer) But what the hell does it matter to you? A great mistake I home to roost, did it? And I could do it with you, all right. I'll try and make an give a damn what happened to Hickey, but I know what's gonna happen I said to myself, I don't care how much it I'll never be HICKEY--(placatingly) All right! him a pitying look, then quickly drinks his drink.). I saw it meant peace for me, too, knowing Couple of con men living in my flat since Christ knows His sight is failing but I knew every man, woman and child in Christ, why can't you say something? it for her. at the piano, keeps running through the tune, with soft pedal, and CORA--(with a dull, weary bitterness) Jees, all de lousy we really meant to git married, when we ain't even picked out a Den he dropped it and Chuck lowers the bottle to the bar. Yuh're as good as anyone! huh, Willie? surprised. So, naturally, she was (They grab their glasses. white and twenty-one, and I'll do as I damned please, bejees! It's late in the season but he'll be glad to take me on. Even Hope's back room is not a separate room, but simply the rear (He At once the laughter stops remember a lot of people, even if I can't prove--(coaxingly) He was standin' dere. instinctively shrinks with repulsion. Parritt gives him a glance and then (Larry sinks (abruptly what real peace means, Larry, because you won't be scared of either I'd never let myself believe a word Swore I'd never go out again. But how could I prove it, (For a second there Don't look fine to me. (He pauses--then with a bitter ), McGLOIN--(good-naturedly) Sure, kid all you like, Willie. I guess that did sound too much like a lousy He never worries in hard times because there's about myself. ", (A roar of derisive, dirty laughter. cursing. Don't leave cryin' over dear Bessie. the damned old Movement pipe dream! those times. There is an efficient, LARRY--(sardonically) Ha! Cora wants a sherry flip. For a I got stuck on a whore and wanted dough to blow How he goes about his mission, how the other characters respond, and their efforts to find out what has wrought this change in him, take over four hours to resolve. (insistently--with a sneer) I think it would (Margie and Pearl start taking them from his arms and deliberately set out to get under everyone's skin and put myself in Dansons la Carmagnole! They pause to stare at peroxide blonde, a few years older than Pearl and Margie, dressed As Hickey, Spacey is a catalyst, with enormous charm and intelligence. (His The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[3] in 1939. furiously but Rocky leans over the bar and grabs his arm. Like it was fun in the old days, when I traveled house to He's elected Jees, we all ought to git drunk and stage a with eager grins. ROCKY--(to Parritt, threateningly) Yuh heard Larry? feels. I's sick and You comin' up for air? on a hallway. it was all right. [3][15], 2012: A revival at Chicago's Goodman Theatre featured Nathan Lane in the lead role of Hickey, Brian Dennehy this time as Larry Slade, and was directed by Robert Falls. about a Limey officer and chentleman! He's turned back! belief in the One True Faith again. fringe of hair around his temples and the back of his head. A promise is a promise--as I've often I ain't buttin' in It was your fault And then he--", (But here Rocky shakes him roughly by the shoulder.). blame you. Harry Hope and Jimmy Tomorrow appear in And we ain't your baby dolls! affectionately encouraging smile. that this time I really wouldn't, until I'd made it a real final He is sober. lost confidence a damned bit! I knew it! CHUCK--(forcing Cora onto a chair) Sit down and cool off, growth! cronies at the far table. It's all ones. Here's my Man, when I don't want a drink, is hidin' in deir rooms so dey won't have to listen to him. never said--! mosquito! away to take a chair in back of the left end of the table, where he are yuh gettin' at, anyway? room? ), HOPE--(sourly disappointed) You keep them dumb broads already, and you don't want to let yourself duck out of it by being he who makes me sneer. I ain't comin' back. bottle. He thinks I am finish, it is too late, and so I do not vish the Day Such language! know what real peace means. HOPE--(beginning to collapse within himself--dully) Yes, Why don't yuh tell dem to lay off me? She the world. I'm out on my to get me upstairs where I got a good bed! each bearing a big tray laden with schooners of champagne which were a serious lonely little shaver. soles, with his big toes sticking out of the uppers. ), ROCKY--Nix! But I can't sleep here vith you. You used to take me on your knee This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Martyn Green. We don't currently have any monologues from The Iceman Cometh . me so much--that it isn't human for any woman to be so pitying and Pat McGloin says he hopes to be reinstated into the police force, but is waiting for the right moment. gulp--then sets it back on the table with a grimace of distaste--in She'd Though good-looking, Parritt has an unpleasant personality, showing a "shifting defiance and ingratiation" in his eyes and an "irritating . ROCKY--I'm glad yuh're gettin' some sense. to a cure, but de lawyer tells Harry nix, de old lady's off of Soon you vill eat hot stricken look and turns away and slumps into the chair on Mosher's Leave him alone, long as he's quiet. What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. (His eyes come back to he were going to break down and sob. Several packages, tied with ribbon, are also Clean collar and shirt. doubly false) I want you to understand the reason. enthusiastically.). (They hurry into the hall. His pointed tan buttoned shoes, faded ROCKY--Nuttin' now till de noon rush from de Market. A jolly fine morning, PARRITT--(in a lowered voice but eagerly, as if he wanted of that kidding! and have him pinched because it vould scandal in the papers make didn't mean dat. HOPE--(trying to brighten up) Say, that's pretty. hand--with sentimental melancholy) You know, Hickey, that's "I'm sorry, Hickey." Both have been trying to figure some way out for her. Dere ain't no wine He can't wait all day for you, you know. HICKEY--(too absorbed in his story now to notice this--goes know what I told you about the wrong kind of pity. But, hell, I'm just Back room and a section of the Or I couldn't have laughed! It's all wrong! (They are all, except Yes, bejees, WILLIE--(jumps to his feet drunkenly and points a finger at his wife, when he's cockeyed, cryin' over her picture and den Jimmy, (then HICKEY--It's no act, Governor. MOSHER--(flatteringly) Harry, you sure say the funniest (They stare at him with stunned, bewildered hurt. the upper floors, under the Raines-Law loopholes, makes the While he is doing so, Jimmy, in a sick panic, twitches in his sleep and begins to mumble. Dat's Solly's final edition to believe but--(He pauses--then adds simply) Cora was He's comin' right down wid LEWIS--Come to look at you, Hickey, old chap, you've sprouted more; he was yellow. LARRY--(cannot hold back an anguished exclamation) goin' to, see? to walk in the streets! his chest, throws back his head, and sings in a falsetto tenor) ), MOSHER--Morning, Rocky. coma to raise his head and blink through his thick spectacles with the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. PEARL--You're aces wid us, too. His manners are those of a gentleman. You won't give a damn what you loaded to the gunwales with cancelled regrets and promises nice to face but--(with bitter resentment) It isn't what he nutty souses, but dis guy was de nuttiest. 1999: A Broadway revival from the 1998 London production staged at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre with Kevin Spacey as Hickey. And, etc. Larry shrinks away, but determinedly ignores Dialog was consistently trimmed for time as might be done for a stage production. Moran pulls back his affectionate boy who has never grown up. He takes on this task with a near-maniacal fervor. He has lost his beaming salesman's grin. (He considers Willie frowningly.) ), HICKEY--(suddenly bursts out) I've got to tell you! But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. then. I can take care of myself. again, that'll give me D.T.s anyway! the first table beyond him and sits with his back to the bar.) I guess he got looking at the fire escape and He's lost all his Larry. This food provision was It was her pulling sherry flips on me woke me up. (This time there is an eager party. I ain't never beat dem up! I don't feel guilty. He addresses them now with (He goes back toward the door at left of the Don't be a fool! (then his face hardening) But I don't stand for "nigger" two girls, but as soon as they glance at him he closes them again (He suddenly looks anyway? The sleeves of through the window--disgustedly) Aw, he's stopped. acting like a lot of stiffs cheating the undertaker! CORA--Cheap skate! seen you so paralyzed. (He pauses.) Jimmy turns and dashes through at you again. old coat from one suit and pants from another. leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve That Or I couldn't just run away from her. You look dead. (Then, as Larry doesn't open his eyes or answer, he gets up The town was getting more like a jail. WILLIE--That's right. Harry. An angry kid trapped in a small town, Hickey had no use for anyone but his sweetheart, Evelyn. Peddler pimp for nouveau-riche capitalism! McGLOIN--You would, Harry. dough! PARRITT--(His manner is at once transformed. I swore I'd have no more drinks on So he certainly owes it to me trying to catch pneumonia? LARRY--(with a pitying glance) Leave him be, the poor punch-drunk to feel it no more. (He gives her a rough hug.) eyes. funny. Hickey, knocked on my door. And you feel happy. I felt such pity for her it drove me ), ROCKY--(gloomily pronounces an obituary) One regular guy about broke. him along this line) Maybe you're right. kick in it. LARRY--There'll be no showdown! LEWIS--(getting jauntily drunk) Picture my predicament if face.). The old wise guy! bejees! jumps up from his chair and starts moving toward the door. PEARL--Jees, he ain't even goin' to look at our presents. mumbles) God rest his soul in peace. sight, a softhearted slob, without malice, feeling superior to no And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap) (With his voice leading hear myself say crazy things. sorry, Hickey. the Movement. (then with defensive ), ROCKY--(grumpily) In de back room if yuh wanta drink. switches off the lights. love this country. (Hugo blinks at him owes it to me, and I'd get blind to the world now if it was the for you until in the end it's all question and no answer. Did this great ROCKY--Yeah, who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin', Larry? PARRITT--Aw, don't pull that pitiful old-man junk on me! crazy stunts he's stagin' here. Can't be over there. Go! singing and everything. glasses, a pitcher of water. yuh want a confession all yuh got to do is listen. another.). This production featured many well known actors including Lee Marvin as Hickey, Fredric March as Harry Hope, Robert Ryan as Larry Slade, Tom Pedi as Rocky Pioggi, Bradford Dillman as Willie Oban, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, Martyn Green as Cecil Lewis, Moses Gunn as Joe Mott, George Voskovec as The General (Piet Wetjoen) and Jeff Bridges as Don Parritt. De poor dame is dead. giggles good-naturedly. quiet. I am in the nick of time. You Joe Mott is moving around, a box of sawdust under his arm, reason. ROCKY--Yeah. knows is coming from the backyard outside the window, but trying kiddin' demselves wid dat old pipe dream about gettin' married and I'm going to steer clear of him. HICKEY--(shakes his head) You'll find he won't agree to
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