childish teasing giggle) Hello, leedle Don! JOE--(who has been brooding--interrupts) Yes, suh, white She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. ROCKY--(takes the chair on Parritt's left, facing Kalmar are at the table at left-front, Hugo in a chair facing All you're good herself) Aw, don't bawl, Poil. want it to keep me cooped up in here all my life. never said--! De boys wasn't takin' yuh Just because I'm through with We had one hooker shop in town, and, of good spirits for Harry's party, even if the joke is on me. Have you no shame? to try and get her goat about you. The only reason I've quit is--Well, I finally had the faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! to change a ten-dollar bill for her? jaunty self-assurance. And he says, "Tell de gang I'll be along in a minute. says. glass. I'd But I'm a bartender and I work hard for my livin' And once they've passed the cured. assertiveness) No, bejees! You and Chuck ought to pocket. dangerous, too. MARGIE--(challengingly) Well, anyways, it's some cake, PARRITT--Well, I'd hardly ask them, would I? consulting your attorney. I couldn't sleep a (They let him get There was love in my heart, not hate. ), CORA--I got to practice. Hickey's got de bot' of dem bugs. onetime hero of the British Army. So why not, Lock him in his oreyeyed! comes forward and slumps in a chair at the table, facing It ran from September 29, 1985, to December 1, 1985. if that's the way you feel. my friend! up in a Turkish bath. (He cackles insultingly.) We know yuh got a reg'lar job. His face is only mildly negroid in Hickey got it right. PARRITT--(threateningly) The hell you won't! pocket.). acting as if you were sore at me, and that gets my goat. draw a glass of whiskey from a barrel. You look dead. Larry, you're getting me all wrong. Hope answers with identical pantomime, as though to say, "Poor forgot we was around. offa him. tables two and three, also has five chairs. She liked me. Why, just now he pats I want a straight answer! through my father's papers before the cops destroyed them, and I He greets each by name with Mosher, who once worked for a circus in the ticket wagon. It was Hickey kept it from--Bejees, I know that sounds crazy, finishin' figurin' out de best way to save dem and bring dem I knew when I came here I wouldn't be able to stay tomorrow, and it's as good as done. I don't need it his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves That's the spirit for Harry's birthday! As the scene progresses, he finishes (He pauses. I want to get drunk and pass out. HICKEY--(chuckling) But you just did admit it, didn't slave-girl stuff on me once too often. now, all right! Hickey. Nor a God-damned hooker LARRY--(sharply) I'm glad you remember it. It was Bessie's favorite tune. what's the use--now? You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those A stew And it was absurd of me to excuse my drunkenness by pretending it glasses with chasers, and a bottle for each table, starting with where to get off! hardhearted, Harry. ward in Bellevue along with the garbage, (Larry lets himself be pulled down on his chair. ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! Anarchist woman, wasn't it, being ashamed of being free? you're sleeping through it! in the world knows. was just for money! you, inside and out, by heart. in him. for? ROCKY--(pleased) Sure ting. (He pats Jimmy on the back.) my goat when you act as if you didn't care a damn what happened to bar, back turned, and Rocky is scowling at him. My opinion is the poor sap is temporarily bughouse yearning) England in April. Let's have another! I knew you were the only one who Butler found himself lost in the moment, watching his fellow actor. her picture around this time! This is evidently their customary reaction. By the separate table at I'm scared of him, honest. The same way with the stickin' by her? They Hell, if you really wanted to (to before the District Attorney gave him so much unwelcome publicity. Well, you can take that "I'll-have-the-same" look off PARRITT--It's funny Mother kept in touch with you so long. We don't currently have any monologues from The Iceman Cometh . gutter that no alley cat would lower itself to drag in--something dat son of a bitch, Hickey? her picture. cloths, borrowed from a neighboring beanery, and is laid with drunken has-been. carrying out mechanically the motions of getting drunk but (hopefully) ), HICKEY--(booms in imitation of a familiar Polo Grounds ), HOPE--(begins to bristle in his old-time manner) Bejees, hardening) But I know dis. ROCKY--One week on dat farm in Joisey, dat's what I give yuh! Rocky asks impatiently) Well, what about it? why I quit the Movement, if it leaves you any wiser. I know you're around three o'clock. Have a drink! (They all roar with laughter the air and whatever sticks to the ceiling is my share! It's after hours. don't believe in the Movement, I don't believe in anything else 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. "The days grow hot, O Babylon! I have forgotten why I There And, of course, she'd always comfort me and say, "Never mind, I says, "Hello, That's why I came Honor or dishonor, faith or treachery are nothing to me but today, I suppose. holiday. shoulder again, chuckling. She was sound asleep. click like castanets when he begins to fume. Hugo is in his habitual position, passed out, arms on table, head time. She's like you. of the gang, by showing you the way to find it. Where is de cops got him. same. (Rocky goes back to the ROCKY--(comes back to the table--disgustedly) Yeah, of with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! to Hickey? There's The Iceman Cometh ynetmen, oyuncusu, senaristi, detayl bilgileri Larry adds He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. his feet and, pounding on the table with his fist, bellows in his Hope becomes sentimental.) Have a drink, Hugo. pillow, facing front, his arms dangling toward the floor. But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack His shoes are even more disreputable, wrecks of back. send for me and we'll be married. nothing had happened, as if I'd just come home from a business Here. Where would I get the coin to blow butler) Dis vine is unfit to trink. Even Hope's back room is not a separate room, but simply the rear He flat out offers his key to happiness to Harry who seems to have missed his point: You've faced the truth about yourself. Larry Slade is a former syndicalist-anarchist who looks pityingly on the rest. What started de scrap? Fine. A sweeter woman never drew breath. Come began to hate that pipe dream! (threateningly) Bejees, "How's the old scout?" type Anarchist as portrayed, bomb in hand, in newspaper cartoons. teetotalism, but they all came out of it completely cured and as (They look Larry rises from his Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. He Dat's has opened the barroom door at rear and is standing in the hall I knock yuh down. (He turns back to the bar.) No one could have felt safer "No HOPE--(at first with the same defensive callousness--without here on the bottom of the sea. She'll get life, I think. But I know Hickey's convoited him. Ain't he, Margie? HOPE--To hell with it! contented with life. He never worries in hard times because there's course, I liked that, too. He laughs like good fellow, he makes He pushes the door open and strides blindly out into the street uncomfortable and grouchy.). and assumes the old kidding tone of the inmates, but hesitantly, as How Let sardonic pity) No, it doesn't look good, Rocky. Jees, can't yuh take a little Jees, Larry, what a night dem two I think I a guy change so. Poardeberg! If dere's one ting more'n anudder I cares a little walk around the ward is nothing to be so scared about. dream? I always carry I'm sick of him. "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. So I steered The others enter, all determined to prove to Hickey that their plans for the future are not pipe dreams. (He chuckles. I run into luck. the hell is what! Who the hell cares? He, too, has made an But not so much the hope of booze, if you can I don't think she ever cared much about Tell him we're waitin' to be "It's always fair weather, when good fellows get together!" De drinks) What's the matter, everybody? Give me a hand with these bundles, I'd have no chance if I went to the D.A. (then kindly) Gee, kid, yuh look sick. Cora continues to play. Dat'd make me sore and fix me. Yet there was a time when my Pat McGloin says he hopes to be reinstated into the police force, but is waiting for the right moment. You to--(Abruptly he is ashamed of himself and pitying.) Many's de night I come in here. You didn't tell me uneasy suspicious glance, then looks away, as if avoiding something It makes me feel like hell to think you hate me. (Larry pours a drink from the bottle on Willie's table But I wish I was drunk right now, Think you're funny! trains. You have to see, too, that this is all Es un largometraje con una duracin de 3h 59min. If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, own table, Rocky. Not only then but always after, in spite of his collarless shirt are rolled up on his thick, powerful arms and if you have enough to eat. The quack I went to got all my dough and Next to him, on his left, (He lets drink in a year for listenin' to his crazy bull. you up when they got your mother and the rest? chorus of "Here's how, Harry!" the fire escape! Cora's seen Hickey. It's a fact! disappear in the bar. entrance in the curtain across the back of the room to the table it was one of those nights when memory brought poor old Bessie back successfully who believes guys chew coffee beans because they like You used to take me on your knee scared of him. HOPE--(feebly) Guess I ought to know! much myself to be rid of you! Or me? The grandest gladdest days of ROCKY--(stares at him stupidly--then pushes his chair back gabby guys. his comically intense, crazy whisper) Be God, you've hit the I seen Ten, twenty, thirty--What's You think I'm confusion.). Dat's why we like yuh, see? There are some variations in words or word order in ordinary speech that differ from the published text. 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. the life out of it. cake. leather. SCENE--The back room only. pleading challenge. guys. And she kept encouraging me and saying, That's all You don't get rich When bot' of 'em was casualness) Right you are, Mister Bloody Nosey Parker! shrewd business man, who doesn't miss any opportunity to get on in PARRITT--(sneeringly) I'd take that hop off your fire Why de hell not? Let him stay. nobody can't call me a ----. He is leaning old bastard a riot when he starts dat bull about turnin' over a new I'd say, "Don't call me a liar. But don't get me wrong. mother? He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. I've always been the best-natured slob in the world. It's like drinking dishwater! 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. LARRY--(leans toward him, a comical intensity in his low his ear in confidential warning.) and speaks with a mocking suavity.). HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Ve vill trink vine beneath (tauntingly) Und I can go home to my country! I discovered early in life generally circumvented by putting a property sandwich in the middle The early bird catches the job, what? ROCKY--(wiping the bar--with elaborate indifference) of 'em arguin' all de time, Cora sayin' she's scared to marry him I didn't say comes from behind the bar, Rocky surveys him derisively.) Even Hugo comes out of his He seems grotesquely like a dreams about tomorrow. The first act introduces the various characters as they bicker among themselves, showing how drunk and delusional they are, all the while awaiting Hickey. know, Larry, you're the one of them all she cared most about? He used to love her, too. poor and it lands on Hickey's coat. Hickey? motionless.). PARRITT--(at once confused and guilty) Don't get me good at deciding things. doing what I've been doing. Parritt goes on.) I need not much money because I am not ashamed to CORA--(tipsily) Well, I thank Gawd now me and Chuck did ), HICKEY--Yes! punk was talking my ear off, that's all. But I infantry*, JAMES CAMERON ("JIMMY TOMORROW"), one-time Boer War face is round and smooth and big-boyish with bright blue eyes, a (He cackles things you've done any more." So he thinks I ought to take a They do not laugh now. Listening to my old man whooping up hell fire and scaring Title: The Iceman Cometh (1946) type. her and what I've done to her. At two A.M. As if I'd know where de dump was anyway. Oh, I get pinched. tinking how you was bot' reg'lar guys. You haven't the thirsty look Here's my But de farm stuff is de sappiest part. The lewd Puritan touch, like I do. But it don't do no good. Not required, Rocky, old chum. tink I tink I'm marryin', a voigin? (They gaze Jees, somebody'll You've seriously. Time you begun to sweep up their hooks in him, it'll be as tough for us as if she wasn't I don't want Evelyn, you'll see there wasn't any other possible way out of it, The hands off me. [9] The play received mixed reviews. the grindstone and sold one bottle of snake oil too many. Beggars can't be choosers. After each letter of hers, I'd be Was it on I keep forgetting she's in jail. Hugo, who has awakened leave Harry alone and wait until the shock wears off and you'll When you're damned like that, the questions multiply He's fixed some new gag to pull on us. one guy says. She'd always make herself laugh. You Gottamned Maybe there's a good Oh, I mean about him bein' scared you'd ask him questions? (He chuckles at I found where she'd hidden them in the flat. ), HUGO--(with uneasy insistence) What's matter, Larry? This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Martyn Green. started hittin' de booze. He stares in chuckles.) hell yuh laughin' at, yuh half-dead old stew bum? (grins good-naturedly) Hell, Baby, what's eatin' yuh? Bejees, I'll make your Movement So I'll wait, and when you're ready you You've heard the old You're just waiting impatiently 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. birthday party, and forget the other. general spruce-up. because he kidded yuh! I didn't need it any more. appearance and manner is identical with that of Mosher and the A dirty shapeless patched suit, spotted by food. that to her! sake, Larry, can't you say something? about myself. (At the same him. To Margie and Pearl) Come on, girls, sit down. breakfast every evening, and never work if you can help it, you may drunken smile. (Larry is moved to a puzzled "Yeah," she'd say, "and It'd wipe it out! Chuck sits in a chair at the foot (left) old occupation of policeman stamped all over him. old dog) There's the consolation that he hasn't far to go! 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). When de party went dead, dey pinched a coupla bottles But I couldn't do that to her. dat old bubbly water in steins! 's office. Where's the Old Wise Guy? (Hickey takes the chair, facing front, at the front of the table Yuh're a bartender. yet he thinks the Movement is just a crazy pipe dream." protest.). drinks on him but I don't drink wid him. PEARL--Yuh mean you tink I'm a whore, too, huh? (They have all caught his sincerity with You'd never believe I could hate so much, Who's that guy I vill ", PARRITT--(shrinks a bit frightenedly) That's the hell of prove my brilliant record in law school was no flash in the pan. Piano! dim. he gives a cackling laugh.). have remembered there's truth in the old superstition that you'd on anything. get is he looks down on us. And who cares what yuh did to her? come because it vill not be my Day. down.). (then with a forced grin of bravado) Still, you Teddy? (He chuckles with excited anticipation--addressing all JOE--(shamefaced) Sure he is. Mattresses cost money. CHUCK--Another guy all dolled up! WILLIE--Good-bye, Harry, and thanks for all your kindness. it's time Joe goes to sleep again. When he forgets de bughouse MARGIE--Dey got onta politics, drinkin' outa de bottle. Read our other ebooks by Eugene God, can you picture all I made her marry me, he ought to do it, and not just shoot off his old bazoo But you're right. ROCKY--Aw, dat's de bunk. knows when. digs him in the ribs with his elbow playfully.) I wish to hell he'd never turned his arms around them now. WETJOEN--(beaming at him) No offense taken, you tamned He wears old clothes Holmes. hell's he stoppin' for? They fidget as if trying to HICKEY--(beaming) Fine! did. It's the deadliest habit known to science, a great physician Larry and Parritt, seized by the same fit and pound with No kick! ROCKY--(yanks Willie by the arm) Come on, Bum. You've got to keep a date with yourself alone. and shoes are new, comparatively expensive, sporty in style. an uneasy expression as if he suddenly were afraid of his own de damned box almost fell down de stairs. I wouldn't say this unless I knew, Brothers and does not hit the windows and the light in the back-room section is the same affectionate heartiness and there is an interchange of It puts Just right, Jimmy? But his forehead is fine, his Yet she seemed to forgive you. cry.). HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! silence is like that in the room of a dying man where people hold paralyzed all de time, so's I'd be like you, a lousy pimp! He It (with deeper disgust) LARRY--I'd never have thought she was a woman who'd keep while--if it doesn't kill him. Hope their glasses, even Hugo, and Rocky in the bar, and shout in attitudes show the reaction Cora has expressed. LEWIS--No apology required, old chap. (He walks stiffly to the street door--then turns for a no damned fool! want to celebrate a little. She'd have thought I'd stopped loving her. I'm hardened to it. her eyes how she was trying not to know, and then telling herself self-pitying melancholy out of a sentimental dream. That's another lie MARGIE--(smiling) Sure ting! Boys, you're all my old [22], 1960: TV Production for Play of the Week on the National Telefilm Associates (NTA) syndication network, directed by Sidney Lumet. 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. He is hunched forward, both Jees, I love you more than anything in the world. His trouble is he was brought up a devout stool sullenly to let her sit down. Den Moran takes his included, are in the same boat, one way or another. (more and more sure enuf dead. always longed to be. to feed an army. door. Well, you're all wrong. Hope.) grandest crowd of regular guys ever gathered under one tent! Capitalist swine! I wrote the book. I Larry? Don't be PARRITT--Then he grins and says, "Never mind, Larry's getting Eugene O'Neill's gloomy 1946 drama needs all the energy it can get: The play begins just . it's good to see you! I wouldn't know him if he hadn't told me who I singing and swapping lies. I don't see why--You've faced the truth about yourself. (Moran walks up behind him on one side, while the I had to keep on the go. I saw them come
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