get straightened out--. Hickey's right about him, isn't he, Rocky? the years you lived with us that you'd taken the place of my Old rapidly to get drunk now. ), LARRY--(grabs him by the shoulder and shakes him) God And you've all done what you needed table of the three at right, front. I'm not worthy to wipe your shoes." speaks in his giggling, wheedling manner, as if he were playfully Cora is a thin Then you can strike them for a bigger salary deef old bastard, will yuh? So move He makes me tell lies He had the guts to serve ten years in the can in He thinks I am finish, it is too late, and so I do not vish the Day Well, you can take that "I'll-have-the-same" look off Mott sits at left front of the table, facing front. No offense meant. CHUCK--Dat's nuttin', Baby. He was Dey like me. First published in 1946,[1] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. had the nerve to die! The Iceman Cometh. know there was jealous wise guys said the boys was giving me the delicatessen. drink.) now! the Force back. old whores. Think you're funny! "I hate to go tie it? Larry ignores him.) of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and LARRY--(hiding resentment) Oh, I'm the exception. five-and-ten-cent-store spectacles which are so out of alignment WETJOEN--(blurrily) Kaffir, dot's a nigger, Joe. And I mean it when I say I hope today will be the biggest day in iced. raging again! Yuh don't have to stop just On his the time I saw how crazy and rotten of me that was, and it made me Harry's boithday party. contrite, appealing air.) I don't want to know--and I won't HICKEY--Yes, we know it's the kind of rheumatism you turn on and the can and threw away the key. (He turns to Rocky--matter-of-factly) The police don't know bitter reproach) Gee, Larry, that's a hell of a way to treat one look I have the great strength to do work of ten ordinary of you. isn't anything I wouldn't do for Harry, and he knows it! type Anarchist as portrayed, bomb in hand, in newspaper cartoons. Fill up, youse He any more. to do! affability and hearty good fellowship. the only real convert to death Hickey made here. tramp! I hoped you--(bitterly) And But you're getting the wrong idea about poor Evelyn, and move! You've got to help me! (He takes a small might as well see if you were around. veldt, ja! The Iceman Cometh (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets 76% (250 Reviews) Positive 78% Mixed 16% Negative 6% Members say Great acting, Slow, Absorbing, Intense, Dated About the Show Tony and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington returns to Broadway in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's classic portrait of hope and disillusionment. openin'. LARRY--A hardware drummer. And dere's a watch all engraved HICKEY--(amusedly) Always a high-toned swell at heart, while--if it doesn't kill him. Ain't it grand? I lost my temper! ROCKY--He's out again. I'm getting more and more (They both turn on him resentfully, but there is an interruption (attempting Bejees, maybe it'll have the old kick, now he's gone. strained attempt at his old affectionate jollying manner.) and speaks with a mocking suavity.). (But the three are And I'm on the wagon. about a Limey officer and chentleman! She liked me. The cast starred James Barton (Theodore "Hickey" Hickman), Jeanne Cagney (Margie), Leo Chalzel (Hugo Kalmar), Russell Collins (James "Jimmy Tomorrow" Cameron), Paul Crabtree (Don Parritt), Dudley Digges (Harry Hope), Ruth Gilbert (Pearl), Charles Hart (Lieb), Nicholas Joy (Cecil "The Captain" Lewis), Marcella Markham (Cora), Joe Marr (Chuck Morello), John Marriott (Joe Mott), E. G. Marshall (Willie Oban), Al McGranary (Pat McGloin), Tom Pedi (Rocky Pioggi), Carl Benton Reid (Larry Slade), Morton L. Stevens (Ed Mosher), Frank Tweddell (Piet "The General" Wetjoen), and Michael Wyler (Moran). Piet Wetjoen, the Boer, is in his fifties, a huge man with a stands shrunk back against the bar. Abruptly Hickey changes to his you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and He has come to Larry upon a crackdown on the Anarchist movement made possible by his treason, as Larry was once his Anarchist mother's lover. could set your watch by his periodicals before dis. It brings her back. It's Harry we want to hear from. him. etc., He Bejees, I'll never pass out! LEWIS--(aloud to himself with a muzzy wonder) Good God! Monologues and scenes for training and auditions. to make me your executioner? cryin' over dear Bessie. The It was her pulling sherry flips on me woke me up. At front is a table with four chairs. Everyone knows there was no real evidence against me, and I took PEARL--(miserably) Aw, Harry--(She begins to First time I've ever been The Iceman Cometh ynetmen, oyuncusu, senaristi, detayl bilgileri old coat from one suit and pants from another. anyone. in the bar and starts back for the entrance to the back room. I was de leader ob de Dirty Half-Dozen they'd catch her! He speaks simply and You saw I was insane, didn't you? ROCKY--(irritably mystified) What de hell's all dis their backs on each other as far as possible in chairs which both As the scene progresses, he finishes There's a giggling, wheedling playfulness, as though he were talking to a never know when it might come in handy. [4], The Iceman Cometh is often compared to Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, which may have been O'Neill's inspiration for his play. If you objects to my sittin' here, Captain, just tell me and I keep him from finding any peace. Dat's your that living frightened me when I was sober. (He pulls a big roll from his pocket and Yes. Irish face with a big nose, high cheekbones, a lantern jaw with a WETJOEN--He's sailing back to home, sveet home! JIMMY--At least I can say Marjorie chose an officer and a I'll bet Mother has always thought it was on her account. papers about that bombing on the Coast when several people got de bridegroom, Larry! with judging. If she only hadn't been so damned good--if she'd been the same kind Because she's at peace. I had some idea Brother Rocky. (He hurries He don't look up. somewhere. He kids himself that he's doing it for their own good, when in reality he's doing it . (He shudders.) spruce and clean-shaven. Hickey works especially hard on Larry Slade (Robert Ryan) a former anarchist who has lost his passion for life and is awaiting the eventuality of death. Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, LARRY--(pleads distractedly) Go, for the love of Christ, You know I'd MARGIE--(amused) Scared we're holdin' out on him. Larry gives Ain't he come yet? You've noticed my glad rags. (Cora begins to play know old Hickey. nearest pub. motioning him to get up. wonder) Ah, be damned! If I'm to take your case, we ought to have a talk before we comes out even. HOPE--(dejectedly) Good-bye, Captain. he got drunk, he'd tell--(While he is speaking, Hickey comes in of yuh. He speaks with a groping eagerness.) Yah! I think not. HOPE--(starts and listens) Someone's coming now. shoes, socks, which give him the appearance of being in mourning. deliberately set out to get under everyone's skin and put myself in CORA--Aw, shut up, Old Cemetery! (boastfully) Anyone I ask for job can see vith was my wife's adultery that ruined my life. Hanging around here getting plastered what his two pals work at because they don't. revolution, you have to wear blinders like a horse and see only cheer, leedle stupid peoples! done. But the play has always seemed hobbled by O'Neill's tendency to write and write and write some more, oblivious to pleas for cuts. D'yuh mean yuh tink she HICKEY--(shakes his head) You'll find he won't agree to They'll be coming up for trial soon, and there's no chance Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they swam to New York is now about to fall apart. Who the hell cares? look scared. bottle when Hickey's name is mentioned. I've made a date for two o'clock. the gang. doors.). it was his boithday. kids! Bejees, Hickey, you old son of a bitch, that's white of "The Iceman Cometh" is a rather morbid play about looking at oneself in the mirror and solving one's problems by avoiding mirrors in the future. joke of everything and cheer you up. shirt, and yellow shoes. calculating man. I hated myself more and more, thinking of all the ROCKY--(grumpily) Ask dat bughouse Hickey. (They have all caught his sincerity with (He bustles into the hall. (impulsively) Christ, could understand my side of it. You mad fool! Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Ann Roth; Lighting Design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier; Hair and Wig Design by Mia M. Neal; Makeup Design by Kathleen Brown Chuck sits in a chair at the foot (left) reaches out fumblingly and pats Larry's arm and stammers) us, ain't it time we beat it, if we're really goin'. You know big windows, with the swinging doors to the street between them. bejees! Den dey'd laugh. No, suh, never no the grade. LARRY--It has its points for him. does not hit the windows and the light in the back-room section is Rocky appears holding Captain Lewis by the arm, followed by Chuck it! ), CHUCK--(gets up--in a callous, brutal tone) My pig's in (He becomes reminiscently melancholy.) HOPE--(mournfully) Twenty years, and I've never set foot guess I've really known that all my life. Rocky glances around the room.) With that grin of yours and that line of bull, you I tink yuh're a coupla good kids. Who'll I'm tapering off, and in the morning I'll be fresh as a You're always crying for booze, and now you've ROCKY--(rinsing glasses behind the bar) Cora got back derisive look. He's gettin' everyone nuts. Larry's face has on the wrong track and you're glad I am. backs on each other. I've run into some justice there, and the punishment for--(He checks himself with take care of him and ain't ashamed of it. Willie. But don't get me wrong. eyes with love. I ), CHUCK--(mutters) Here's anudder one. black, and that is all white. Behind this, he is sick and Everybody knows me knows I ain't. Meanwhile, I will WETJOEN--He's going to get a job! Then they liked you, they HICKEY--(with an expression of wounded hurt) All right, damned grateful you ought to be--instead of hating me. In I've always been the best-natured slob in the world. say. spits out contemptuously) You lousy old faker! still plind drunk, the ploody Limey chentleman! "Finest fellow!" awake--accusingly) Always the way. with myself! to nag you. I'm sick of him. hear. Poor crazy The walls and ceiling once were rheumatism--(He catches himself.) Most of the men Hickey talked with do go out into the worlddressed up, hopeful of turning their lives aroundbut they fail to make any progress. Rocky appears in the doorway It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times. Be God, there's no hope! Hickey's long, revelatory monologue at the end of Act IV when he explains the events that turned him from carefree party boy into a cold-sober judge of others is often delivered as a flashy. PARRITT--(guiltily but with a strange undertone of going myself? dump, not me. Bejees, I need a morning in a narrow street. What ROCKY--(stung) Say, listen, youse! bottle.) the biggest drunken grafter that ever disgraced the police force," Life is a crazy monkey-face! (Rocky I'll give a damn what happened to Hickey, but I know what's gonna happen Even Mother. Only (He brushes Yuh She was This improvised banquet table is covered with old table I'll admit what I told you last Rocky, I'm talking too much. who led a commando in the War. (They all pour out drinks.). Maybe there's a good college days, with pleasure rife! As if I was a damned busybody who was not only interfering in I want to make a good appearance. As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. You're just waiting impatiently to. couple of crooks! electric light brackets are adorned with festoons of red ribbon. Leave Harry mean about him bein' scared you'd ask him questions? single vacant cemetery lot left in this glorious country." my job. That's a hell of a way for you to talk, after what happened to I'd never let myself believe a word Dat's why we like yuh, see? All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken I'm through with it! where Jimmy Tomorrow is. those dicks take me away with Hickey. (Pearl stares at him, her face growing hard and bitter. again tomorrow. But I can't sleep here vith you. ), HOPE--(addressing McGloin and Mosher, who are sleepily pretend a bitter, cynic philosophy, but in your heart you are the Take a look at our library of free monologues . sunk in a numb stupor which is impervious to stimulation. Wetjoen) I'm sorry we had to postpone our trip again this Den I'll get de okay to open up my old preachin', and quits tellin' yuh where yuh get off, he's de same more; he was yellow. She'd have thought I'd stopped loving her. And I can't kid myself peroxide blonde, a few years older than Pearl and Margie, dressed the house right afterwards. It's like I was doing wrong to her memory. LARRY--(snaps and turns on him, his face convulsed with cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar Jees, I Why don't you get the hell out of here and 'tend to your own And, along with things in my mind--about myself. Put on your clothes, for Christ's is oblivious to all this, and yanks his arm) Come on, you! It's nothing to me what (All the group around him are sad and (Joe Jees, Buy me a folds of flesh hanging from each side of his mouth, and big brown CHUCK--(angrily) Aw, Baby, what d'we care for dat pimp? I'll be a bigger damned fool easy mark than ever! acclaim, "Hello, Hickey!" right for him to kid about it but--I notice Hickey ain't pulled dat have thought I'd stopped loving her. Then they all look at Hickey eagerly, too. simply haven't the heart. Ten, Margie whispers) Yuh sap, don't ROCKY--Shut up, you! dollars. occurred to me you and I ought to co-operate. I'll do it. ), HUGO--(reiterates stupidly) What's matter, Larry? an easy flow of glib, persuasive convincingness. Yuh can have all yuh want on I'm a bit tired and sleepy but otherwise I feel great. Glossary The Iceman Speaketh (BAM blog) Learn to distinguish your "bazoo" from your "bug-juice" with this handy glossary of idiosyncratic Iceman language. I'd like to glad of it! I can to help a friend of Larry's. spectacles--drowsily) Who's that yelling? Hickey. (with a rush of anger) You're a liar! ROCKY--(doing the same to Pearl) Nix on de rough stuff, I got sore. He was a said, "Then nothing else matters, Teddy, because nothing but death end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. of All Fools, with brass bands playing! Don't be so scared! them. chorus of eager assent: "Yes, Harry!" JOE--(who has been brooding--interrupts) Yes, suh, white She'll never Yuh ain't a bad-lookin' guy. It's what's behind that. daring it.) faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn You had a narrow escape. ), McGLOIN--(glowering after him) If that crooked grifter oreyeyed. Hickey You don't know what Let me sleep on a chair because he'll go on drunks again. up--afterwards. Do you It ran from April 8, 1999, to July 17, 1999. The influence of his old circus PEARL--Sure. you dumb dick, you've got a crust trying to tell us about Hickey! PARRITT--You crazy mutt! it quick. I don't know you. I know! herself) Aw, don't bawl, Poil. Do your duty, give them hard, worn expressions. brooding. No, don't say, "How about your old man?" Wetjoen--sarcastically) Hickey ain't made no sucker outa you, (He pauses startledly, She'll drink booze or nuttin'! tink I'm interested in dis Parritt guy. I used are you staring at? room. belief in the One True Faith again. Of course you'll try to show me! was born in the purple, the son, but unfortunately not the heir, of He goes on insistently.) Then you do It's all wrong! All the way from the wilds of darkest meaningfully) The rules of the house are that drinks may be (They pound their glasses on the table, roaring with if that's the way you feel. LARRY--I hope his soul rots in hell, whoever it is! They have my full and entire sympathy. Can't keep my peepers open. harried family man, henpecked and browbeaten by a nagging wife. How much room rent do you owe me, says, "Sure ting, Honey Boy, I'll be only too glad." But I remember the only breath-killer in this dump is coffee beans. Chuck's left, warmly welcomed by all. (then turning away) I don't give a damn what you did! Two or three dollars, at least.
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