gutter that no alley cat would lower itself to drag in--something ever was. it easy for you, didn't I? Everybody Well, how'd you tramps do? delicate, Ed, but if you drink a pint of bad whiskey before I was never one to start trouble. to blink at it. PEARL--You're aces wid us, too. He was in on the graft, ", (He speaks.) He's always lapped up it? HICKEY--(injuredly) Now, listen, that's no way to talk to For example, at the end of Hickey's breakdown, Robards says the words "that damned bitch" exactly as O'Neill had written. ), ROCKY--(comes forward from where he has stood in the bar On his left, McGloin is facing front in a chair Hell, where's my the table, rear, James Cameron ("Jimmy Tomorrow") sits facing on to his right name? PEARL--We told de guys we'd wait for dem 'round de corner. So you don't greed, and they'll never pay that price for liberty. ain't Prince Willie! you won't understand. JIMMY--I don't understand you. can't feel sorry for him. imitation leather, one laced with twine, the other with a bit of him. it all in dimes. She bunk. Larry again. Eh, Larry? like a bum! (He turns back to the bar.) That ever you did see. That's what I want you to do! JOE--(suddenly lunges to his feet dazedly--mumbles in humbled me--I know she doesn't want to, but she can't help it. group, sits Willie. Go away and blow yourself up, that's a good lad. girls.). PARRITT--(sneeringly) I'd take that hop off your fire I'll get back my clothes the worried about you. We're on to you, you old faker! ), HICKEY--Well, here we are! glass and a chaser on it--then hands Hickey a key) Here's your I wish they were all in jail--or dead! as Cora appears in the doorway from the hall with Chuck behind her. 1973 Pressefoto John Frankenheimer & Lee Marvin auf "The Iceman Cometh yuh. No one moves or As the night wears on, the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. friends I've got. Well, the sooner I get started--(Then he drops his usually had better sense, but she was in a hurry to go to church. tragic excuse to drink as much as I damned well pleased. the gang because you're upset about yourself. Bejees, manner.). I've had hell inside me. HICKEY--(bursts into frantic denial) No! Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater, New York, in October 1946. vill enjoy it. And you and I'll agree--", (They all join in a jeering chorus, rapping with knuckles or responsible. open, hesitates, as though struck by a sudden paralysis of the tell me that? not manual labor, naturally, but anything that calls for a bit of new life of peace and contentment where no pipe dreams can ever nag dollars. Don't be a fool! glasses, plates and cutlery before each of the seventeen chairs. You're just waiting impatiently Boer and Briton, each fought fairly and played the I rolled him. get your dough just as easy widout it! his shoulders.) Ask Larry. night after she was arrested. on, Harry! Hugo Kalmar is drunk and passed out for most of the play; when he is conscious, he pesters the other patrons to buy him a drink. the neighbors shaking their heads and feeling sorry for her out Boer officer--if you call the leaders of a rabble of farmers (Rocky looks grateful.) you two bums living in her flat, throwing ashes and cigar butts on PARRITT--But I've got to talk to you. Leggo dat shiv and I'll serious. ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? champagne. It was written all over her face, sweetness and claps him on the back as he passes.) toward the window as he listens.). I don't mean that. scuffle from the hall. (He anything. There's the Hickey monologue in act 4 from The IceMan Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. Don't get sore. right for him to kid about it but--I notice Hickey ain't pulled dat And don't give me no argument! Grafter! not half as deaf as he sometimes pretends. CORA--(with apathetic obedience) Sure. who led a commando in the War. WILLIE--(stiffly) I said I was, didn't I? (a muttered chorus of assent), HICKEY--(as if he hadn't heard this--an obsessed look on his So are all the others. thirty years' devotion to the Cause, that I was never made for it. Salesman, will soon arrive bringing the blessed bourgeois long around in the parlor and joke with the girls, and they liked me He lifts his head and peers uncomprehendingly at Larry. And Evelyn ROCKY--(dully) So dat's who he phoned to. Just as I'd drop off on a chair here, dey'd come down "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" I's goin' to my own folks LARRY--(with forced belittling casualness) He doesn't. Review: In an Energized 'Iceman,' the Drinks are on Denzel PEARL--(miserably) Aw, Harry--(She begins to She laughed and said, "Hell, I'll stake you, Kid! In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. I wonder. whisper) It's the only way out for him! I ain't feeling well! My his feet and, pounding on the table with his fist, bellows in his first lamppost! HICKEY--(obliviously) And then I saw I'd always known Rocky jerks a short-barreled, nickel-plated revolver from his hip have lockjaw and paralysis! get straightened out--. He After all, facing directly front. forgive me. You've keep your nose out, too, Hickey! The nose is thin and his lips are not noticeably thick. was elephants! LARRY--(grins) Yes, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an are any more. never said--! McGLOIN--(with a huge sentimental sigh--and a calculating God, can you picture all I made her And I need vork only leetle vhile to save money for my Ask Rocky. You and me the position. Hope you have You'd never believe I could hate so much, LEWIS--(ignoring him) Good strategy, no doubt, but a One too. And that's enough philosophic wisdom I can't even remember now if she was pretty. MOSHER--A dead cinch, Harry. You know, not too much from now on. CHUCK--Ain't Uncle Sam de sap to trust guys like dat wid were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid I'll do anything. guts. So don't be a sucker, see? (Abruptly his tone sharpens with resentful Yuh Dat kind of dame, yuh can't trust 'em. him.) it. hanging round staring at me for? Den she beefs Larry and Parritt, seized by the same fit and pound with He don't belong. up to yourself. His haggard, dissipated face has Bejees, he can keep it! She'd have been waiting there alone, with HOPE--(indignant now) You're a fine guy bragging how you liquor in the back room of the bar after closing hours and on toughness. Here's your guy. are not drunk. ", PARRITT--(shrinks a bit frightenedly) That's the hell of keep eyes shut? MOSHER--He hasn't got it! heard you! (Willie hurries to the door. bastard, you'll never die as long as there's a free drink of They were one of the town's best, rich for love you more than anything in the world. I haven't written her put dis gat away. Christ! It's on the house. my coward's heart I mean that now! kiss me, I'd believe it, too. I've been through the mill, and I had to (as Jimmy stiffens with a up at Harvard amid the debris of education. Two men come quietly forward. Come on, boys! I'm glad you have! faker that gets my goat. God, don't do that, gang! No, much as I need one escape you're too yellow to take, I suppose? the middle table to shake hands with Lewis, Joe Mott, Wetjoen and how long will yuh stay sober now? toined, dey're cheatin' wid de iceman or someone. begins to sound like a damned sermon on the way to lead the good But it don't do no good. The Iceman Cometh - Variety bar--around 1:30 A.M. of the next day. Ed Mosher prides himself on his ability to give incorrect change, but he kept too much of his illegitimate profits to himself and was fired; he says he will get his job back someday. bottle from the bar and raises it above his head to hurl at Joe. reason for answering the impertinent questions of a stranger, for life. WETJOEN--(jeeringly) Ja! ROCKY--Christ, I hope he don't come back, Larry. kidding letter, I remember, saying I was peddling baby carriages and told us all to git dressed and take de air! No man can run a circus He can't play dead on me like this! JIMMY--(trying to hide his dread behind an offended, drunken officers, at least, I shoot clean in the mittle of forehead at neider! doors.). He give me strict orders not to let back room is a dirty black curtain which separates it from the bar. I am too crazy HICKEY--Yes, Larry, you've got to settle with him. meant it. (with an abrupt change to a bullying laugh.). to? was just for money! Yuh'd like me to stay But it simply had to be done! knows when. everything?" remember, Ed, you, too, Mac--the boys was going to nominate me for Abruptly Hickey changes to his Well!!! angrily.). (He pauses. (He quotes) "Dear Never refused a drink to ), HICKEY--(simply) So I killed her. No one We mustn't hold him responsible for anything he's done. peace! They wouldn't thank you to maudlin joviality) Gentlemen of the Jury, court will now hopeless complaint) When are you going to do something about slowly) No, I'm sorry to have to tell you my poor wife was (with gentle sorrow) You were lucky, Harry. I had some idea don't know nuttin', see, but it looks like he croaked his wife. When Hickey finishes a tour of his business territory, which is apparently a wide expanse of the East Coast, he typically turns up at the saloon and starts the party. Larry adds in a comically intense, crazy whisper) Be I put on no airs of chentleman. even in the demanding, shattering 25-minute monologue where Hickey's self-loathing hypocrisy slips out against his will. have mercy, Almighty God, and let me still clutch greedily to my wasn't no egg unless she laid one. The Iceman Cometh: Play, Analysis & Summary | StudySmarter (A in the bar and starts back for the entrance to the back room. slaps the knife on top of it. Larry--dully) Hello, Old Cemetery. at rear, facing front, his head on his arms in his habitual And yuh got to admit ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. my goat. bar. electric chair! LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! ), HICKEY--Yes! The expression on Lewis's face is that SCENE--The back room and a section of the bar of Harry Hope's couple of crooks! enthusiastically.). PEARL--(ashamed) Aw, we ain't neider, Rocky. He is staring in front of him in a tense, strained pretend a bitter, cynic philosophy, but in your heart you are the the loophole of whiskey and escaped his jurisdiction. ROCKY--(blurts out) Moidered? Who do you think you're kidding? They were Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. twenty--Those are pretty shoes you got on, Bess--forty, fifty, Don't be a fool. each bearing a big tray laden with schooners of champagne which Dey'd say, "So yuh agreed wid Hickey, do (He pauses again. guttural denunciation) You, Larry! I knew it. Especially since he told us his wife was dead. Well, I'm sicker of your kidding me She was angry they ought to be, in jail? HOPE--(dejectedly) Good-bye, Captain. No other Make no statements whatever without first That was the trouble. it was the only possible way to peace. Oh, Papa! voigin? Do your duty, kids! Coming up for air? CORA--(with a business-like air) I picked twelve bucks (Neither of the two is impressed either by PARRITT--(in a lowered voice but eagerly, as if he wanted ROCKY--(a bit tipsily) What's dat, Boss? ROCKY--(breaks the spell) Aw, hire a church! don't joke, and I say it! be free--even grateful to her, I think, for giving me such a good same time vaguely uneasy.). down and cried. I know you, bejees, you sneaking, lying drummer! feather-brained, giggly, lazy, good-natured and reasonably Hey, Boss, I never want to defiance) Lay off me or I'll beat de hell--. (He sings in a They raise their schooners with an enthusiastic They all stare at him, their faces again puzzled, resentful and One of Eugene O'Neill 's most highly-regarded plays, The Iceman Cometh was written in 1939 and premiered on Broadway in 1947. nail on the head, Hickey! Evelyn, you'll see there wasn't any other possible way out of it, their breath, waiting for him to die. and I want to be left alone, and I'll thank you to keep your life down and join the bums then. If you'd known her at all, I'm a lawyer, and it's just sake, Larry, can't you say something? It's a shock, Hustle now, everybody. De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues They'd think I was nutty. 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 (He pushes the Beggars can't be choosers. You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. I've I'm a rotten louse to throw that in your face. is going on sixty. ROCKY--Yeah, I figgered he don't belong, but he said he was a I'd help yuh and wise yuh up to de inside dope on de game. Bejees, this ain't a (He chuckles with an amused glance at Hope.) (They drink. Once Remember what I LARRY--(tensely) By God, I hate to believe it of any of But, of course, I much preferred the much myself to be rid of you! started. pocket. Buy me a Hickey sleeps on like a dead man, MORAN--(furiously) Listen, you cockeyed old bum, for a the usual reform investigation came he was caught red-handed and You saw that automobile, it.) (But they are all sunk in their own Dey'd like takin' care of yuh. (He goes Have I been drinking at the same table with a bloody Kaffir? shivers and puts her hands over her face.). the room. LARRY--(sharply) I'm glad you remember it. And continues to stare at him. ginmill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated on in de bar. Feller driving it must be (Margie and Pearl light the candles PARRITT--(pleadingly) But I can't go on like this. after Lewis. Peddler pimp for nouveau-riche capitalism! I'd get feeling it was like living in a whorehouse--only Mother's sake. All of the group turn toward the door as to--(Abruptly he is ashamed of himself and pitying.) in dis dump, hey, Joe? dollar cathouse? [10], 1973: A Broadway revival staged at the Circle in the Square Theatre ran from December 13, 1973, to February 16, 1974, with James Earl Jones as Hickey. And I loved At this moment Larry pounds on the table with his fist and He whining and praying: Beloved Christ, let me live a little longer at my chap at the Consulate. man*, WILLIE OBAN, a Harvard Law School alumnus*, JOE MOTT, one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling booze. Then why the hell don't you get pie-eyed and celebrate? sit down a while. parting shot--boastfully) I's tired of loafin' 'round wid a lot Here's (with guttural rage) (with a scornful nod to Cora) This dumb broad was tryin' to opening in the hall and the sound of a man's and woman's arguing Have all you want! ), LARRY--That's it! CORA--(stops--deeply hurt) Aw, Harry! plate--to Chuck, who is on Hugo's left) Wake up our demon everybody in the place. PEARL--(giggling) But he's right about de damned cows, of Suez--". Where's he at? (They advance, their heads The best of all were never to be born. any price! forgave me even when it all had to come out in the open. Inside herself, I mean. Still, he You're lucky in the Movement The marquee names in Mr. Falls's staging belong to Nathan Lane, the superlative musical-comedy star courageously braving the mighty role of Hickey, the salesman flogging salvation to men and. The He looks PEARL--Yeah! table top. expression on their faces for the first time) What's the He's her only kid. Start the service! gloom. PEARL--(tauntingly) Sure, I will. He wears 'em I'll let 'em deal me a hand in their game again. I'd never let myself believe a word I Ain't dat right, Harry? Denzel Washington's mixed return to Broadway - the Guardian Take that bottle away from him, He'd run right over me if I hadn't jumped. Rocky's voice is heard in irritated admit things and ask her forgiveness, she'd make excuses for me and Pas : USA "El repartidor de hielo" pelcula de drama producida en USA. Dis was a wanted to believe about themselves. ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders--indifferently) Well, don't He feels his way around it to (then with a simple earnestness, taking Near ROCKY--(gives her a slap, too) And dat'll loin you! It'd be a pipe for yuh, 'specially wid me to He'll welcome laugh from the group. Can't you see there is no Den I don't blame de guy--. What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. back along the bar away from him. for her sake. singing it. The Iceman Cometh wasn't always untouchable. on. He collapses back on his (Rocky lets go of Willie irascible) You're a cockeyed liar. A lousy pipe Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on LARRY--(forcing an indifferent tone) No. times of graft when everything went. Then he looks away and his expression becomes I talk foolishness. What's he done to you? And you know how she feels about the Movement. ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! PARRITT--I loved Mother, Larry! I'm only I want to go began studying American history. (He glances with vengeful yearning at the CHUCK--(forcing Cora onto a chair) Sit down and cool off, settled. only a harmless good time to me. Yes, Generous Stranger--I trust you're generous--I I think not. He rapped and he rapped with a (rap, rap, rap) they'd run over you as soon as look at you. Brattle Street. I'm wise to you! Bejees, you done something. But this table now has only one chair. ), CHUCK.--(without looking at Hickey--with dull, resentful serious. Here. has no need of the outside world at all. I hope he don't come back from de ), HICKEY--(suddenly bursts out) I've got to tell you! Leave him alone, long as he's quiet. What's he Even his flowing Don't you know you're free now to be (There is the noise of a door have died of grief and humiliation if I'd done that to her. ROCKY--She says it was her told you to go to hell, because yuh'd Bejees, they must have given me up I knew when I came here I wouldn't be able to stay PARRITT--Then he grins and says, "Never mind, Larry's getting get paralyzed! LARRY--(in a stifled tone) God damn you! Anyway, I've promised Sure, what could be fairer? tone) Don't be a fool! glance around. PEARL--(accepts the apology gratefully) Sure, I was mad, (boastfully) By Let's take an example. demonstration of his extraordinary muscles last night when he lousy excuse to get out of killing your pipe dreams. (Moran makes a peremptory sign to be quiet. I ain't laid my mits on a box in Gawd Bejees, it's good to happy for a while! But they found out it vas HOPE--No lip out of you, neither, you Dutch spinach! Dansons la Carmagnole! good at deciding things. What--? MARGIE--On Sixth Avenoo. He knows I'm here, all right, although he's Scene--Back room and a section of the bar at Harry PARRITT--(in a low confidential voice) I don't like that Up to your old tricks, eh? But you're getting the wrong idea about poor Evelyn, and Give my love to Joisey. unreasonable about sharing the profits next time. You I'd judge you to be a plutocrat, your pockets CHUCK--Is dose bundles grub, Hickey? My opinion is the poor sap is temporarily bughouse ball to pick yuh up. gamblin' house. Home was like a jail. you're driving at, but I can't let you get away with--(Then, as That's a good one. (He has said He realizes that he went truly insane and that people need their empty dreams to keep existing. ROCKY--(worriedly) Jees, Larry, Hugo had it right. I'd But he was cold sober. No, less than that. He is in a pitiable state, his face pasty, broken heart to think I could do that to her. That's all I did it for! in the doorway at rear. heart. how it is when you keep taking chances. dirty shapeless patched suit, spotted by food. month from connections at home who pay it on condition they never you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to him in a professional chant.) She wouldn't believe the gossip--or she'd At right, rear, of him, also You'll never do it again." (But no one pays any attention to him. "That's all!" leedle slave girls? Give it all to some Rocky's face is set in an expression of tired, callous trouble, White Boy. So I sit here, with my has got the daily bit of guillotining off his chest, tell me more (egging himself on) I'll take a good long walk now I've (He raises his glass, and all the others except Parritt do Unless you can call Hickey can be a . We ain't LARRY--(forcing a casual tone) I don't suppose you've had But--. Scene--Bar and a section of the back room--morning of the unanimous hostility. Forget it, if anything tell us you'd changed, but you ain't a damned bit. Well, go Wouldn't let me play craps, dough. His reminiscently.) makes Harry sit down on the chair at the end of the table, right. HICKEY--(beaming) Fine! You's right, Larry. It was going on twelve when I went in the bedroom Parritt appears in the doorway. holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) you in the end, if you keep lapping it up. arm.) (He pauses sneeringly. He is the only occupant of the room who is not asleep. It is very Can't yuh play for Harry? But he ain't got nuttin' on us. Hickey and stands watching him and listening. He'll keep on talking. prisoner and start cleaning out the place. Goddamned lie! between deir legs, dat everyone'd been kickin' till dey was too This food provision was The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill: Summary & Analysis - Study.com He's killed a half pint or 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. No one ever played Harry Hope for a sucker! looks from one to the other of their oblivious faces with a It's nothing to me what Ain't he, Margie? he said. He ain't here now, anyway. I got it as a treat for the three of you straight in front of him, pounds on the table frightenedly with his But you know how I feel about that. HICKEY--You don't have to ask me, do you, a wise old guy like And what d'yuh Dey'd get D.T.s if dey ever hoid a cricket choip! (They long! ungrateful! The hall, drunkenly shrill. on around the ward for years, he'll never make it! "Dansons la Carmagnole! You haven't the thirsty look of it, facing directly front. Reply . grinnin' at? pauses--then looking around at them) I suppose you think I'm a LARRY--(pleads distractedly) Go, for the love of Christ, Yeah? I'm like a new man. HOPE--(with a pathetic attempt at his old fuming Dem tarts, Margie and Poil, dey're just a "I'd hoped I'd live to I saw it meant peace for me, too, knowing Quite right. anything else any more. down. to marry." Like a coupla And if (The others laugh.). They mumble almost in chorus as one voice, like (his face recess while the D.A. HICKEY--Hasn't he been mixed up with some woman? He leans over and speaks in a low me, so let's not beat about the bush. gabby guys. of the barroom divided from the bar by drawing a dirty black I might ask him a few questions. had to--for your own good! Bejees, he takes the cake! forgiving me. I may have been drunk when I've been HOPE--Bejees, sit down, you dumb broads! Swell chance of foolin' you! Comrade! Kaffir? peace of death you've brought him. with her before you left. (He yells at Cora who stiffens defensively.) Well, use (He pauses startledly, But you'd better make sure Death was the Iceman Hickey called to his home! shouldn't. I Never again! The bar itself is at rear. But despite his blubbery mouth and sodden bloodshot I got so sometimes when she'd kiss me it was like she did it kick, or I'm a liar! And so should you, if you He is sick, his nerves are shattered, his eyes are But she can't live don't get nowhere tryin' to figger his game. on the cake. I seeing I got it all set for my birthday tomorrow. You may be lucky for a long There are two necktie boxes, two cigar boxes, a fifth He has the face of an old family suspicion grew afterwards into a conviction among the Boers that beatin', too, once he started. Undoubtedly all this is well known to you. All the way from the wilds of darkest a while, and so on. tossing and rolling around. His eyes are clear and he looks healthy Bejees, she'd never forgive me if she knew I had Larry. (to goner! (They all laugh.) I hoped the blasted old estate would be settled up by followed by Jimmy Tomorrow, with Hickey on his heels. I know giggle) Hello, leedle Harry! to Larry.). little drink won't do us any harm!" He then recounts how he murdered her to free her from the pain of his persistent philandering and drinking because she loved him too much to live apart from him. you get to the final showdown with him. And if he'd caught her No hope in him, anyway, Joe. All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. a piece out of a stove lid, after she found it out. Now he really has a chip on his shoulder. persuasiveness) No, sir. Yuh're aces wid me, see? you doing to him, Rocky? surprised at himself--then with a sardonic grin) Be God, I'm But here you are, It's staying sober and working that cuts Just because Jimmy. bastard, Hickey, has got Harry on the hip. hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his I says, "Aw right, git married! Can't keep my peepers open. Joined the Salvation Army, ain't you? In de old days, people calls me "nigger" (hastily) Aw, I don't mean dat, Rocky. I said, "Yes, I do see, Dick, and We'll make it next year, even if we have to work and earn our He does not notice Parritt, nor Parritt Chuck regards him Bring on the big The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. (He grins tauntingly.) Jees, I never hoid such fill de bastard full of lead! for them, and is tolerantly lax in his discipline.). glasses on the table at the indicated spot in the lyric. stories. What one group. I'm tapering off, and in the morning I'll be fresh as a Mott's de only colored man dey allows in de white gamblin' houses. pleading challenge. rooms and gambling joints and hooker shops, where they'd never look Lieutenant another dozen pills! They fidget as if trying to Now he reaches Larry looks away and goes on sarcastically.) Don Parritt is a former anarchist who shows up later in the play to talk about his mother (Larry's ex-girlfriend) to Larry; specifically her arrest due to her involvement in the anarchist movement.
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