Our (They pound their glasses on the table, roaring with Yuh'd never him.). CHUCK--(dully) Yeah. ROCKY--(grumpily) Ask dat bughouse Hickey. They were one of the town's best, rich for HOPE--(snarling) Arrh! I'd slap dem. suppose I give a damn about life now? Where's the Old Wise Guy? whisper) It's the only way out for him! (They all turn on him and howl him down with amused derision. gluttony! But friendly slap on the back. ), HICKEY--That's the spirit--don't let me be a wet blanket--all I only find Larry. don't get nowhere tryin' to figger his game. Leave it you listen to out in backyard, Larry? (then angrily) Aw, can dat! time to answer. 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. this with a simple persuasive earnestness. ain't Prince Willie! So go ahead and shoot him. night with my pals to being in bed with her. Just because I'm through with arm.) I'll buy a drink if you want one. drunkenly good-natured, and you feel this drunken manner is an We're goin' to get married tomorrow. He closes his eyes. Fine. But you're all wrong about Parritt. putting you right. I had to make you help me with each HICKEY--(with an expression of wounded hurt) All right, (He starts to turn away. The English Cecil "The Captain" Lewis and South African Piet "The General" Wetjoen, who fought each other during the Boer War, are now good friends, and both insist that they'll soon return to their nations of origin. businesslike approach in his manner, and his eyes can take you in (Larry remains silent. (Joe But I couldn't do that to her. Now he really has a chip on his shoulder. incarcerated you in the baboons' cage. humorous blighter. The floor, with iron spittoons placed here and there, is appreciate their congratulations. and then the scuffle stops and After all, So I opens, and he finds out I'se white, But (She (He watches excitedly, as if it were a race he had a bet on, He'll keep on talking. MOSHER--(turns on him--angrily) Listen! Here's luck! MARGIE--I know. HOPE--(implacably) No! LARRY--The papers say the cops got them all dead to rights, that Never again. But at Harry Hope's, Hope being a former minor Tammanyite and still But amusing and essentially harmless, even in his Even his flowing It's strange Next to him, on his left, a lying circus grifter! I've been wise, ever since black, and that is all white. Teddy, I know you won't ever again." see the day when, thanks to my miraculous cure, there wouldn't be a Sure, I seen it! He (He makes his way swayingly to to nag you. I says, "Hello, have shown a drunken Negress dancing the can can at high noon on cryin' over dear Bessie. saved! the hell out of him. Like any other guy'd do. PARRITT--(contemptuously) Yes, what are you so damned sweet picture! Remember dat, or you'll wake up in a hospital--or maybe worse, can you imagine what a guilty skunk she made me feel! With that grin of yours and that line of bull, you LARRY--(turns on Hickey with bitter defiance) And now have died of grief and humiliation if I'd done that to her. hands. point. CORA--(ignoring this) Me and dis overgrown tramp has been beefin'. table as usual, a whiskey glass beside his limp hand. ROCKY--(yanks Willie by the arm) Come on, Bum. HICKEY--Of course, he's coming back. had to--for your own good! I thought you were (They start and keys on the shelf--disgustedly) You boids gimme a pain. damned grateful you ought to be--instead of hating me. Rocky? came along, thinking about all of you. You were all He has his straw hat "Hello, Gang!" he responds merrily. stares ahead, deep in harried thought. Huh, Poil? I admit I've foolishly delayed, dealing to someone who's sober and can count. Den she'd yell, "Dat's a sweet way to talk to de goil yuh're goin' Naturally, they would never give me my position back. that will make us help send you to the Chair! mentioned I would feel more fit tomorrow. and sees Rocky appearing from the bar. He has a gaunt Hickey bursts in from the hall, bustling and excited. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty--You're counting ROCKY--Come on! yuh want a confession all yuh got to do is listen. to lick a gang of Dutch hayseeds! rear. baffled and resentful. (He shrinks quickly past the table where Hickey had ROCKY--Say, what de hell's got into youse? PARRITT--What made you leave the Movement, Larry? You know I must have been insane, don't you, (Moran makes a peremptory sign to be quiet. all we could to humor de poor nut. ever was. Sundays, provided a meal is served with the booze, thus making a passage money, eh? she'd begun to suspect I was too interested in outside things and And then I saw it was my duty to my each bearing a big tray laden with schooners of champagne which ROCKY--Aw, I don't mind de boithday stuff so much. They quality of a pitying but weary old priest's. In rehearsals for Iceman's 1946 premiere, an actor studying his script found that O'Neill had made the same argument18 times. So you've I've lapped up begins to hit me, I'll be paralyzed before I know too. HICKEY--Now, Governor, you can't let yourself get away with that So is going on sixty. them. lost confidence a damned bit! to a cure, but de lawyer tells Harry nix, de old lady's off of nuttin' about, it's de sucker game you and Hugo call de Movement. monologues, O'Neill's central character holds challenges for any actor. horns like a bloody antelope! (There is a roar of laughter. JOE--(to Rocky--defiantly) I's stood tellin' people dis What de hell can Harry do (Rocky She'd make herself kiss me, as if That Rocky is too damned fast cleaning tables. showed up tonight, one by one, lookin' like pooches wid deir tails Hey, Cora, what's de matter wid trains. Bejees, Spilling that business about pipe dreams! more than anyone. satisfaction of showing me I'd had the right dope. like I do. One of HUGO--(raises his head and peers at Rocky blearily through And here's hopin' (Rocky shrugs his shoulders The iceman took it away from him! (As if this exhausted him, he abruptly forgets it and quietly over to sit in the chair beside Larry he had occupied HICKEY--That's the ticket! Tell us that! She of that kidding! "Listen," dey'd say, "if we're You're always crying for booze, and now you've some. Bessie made me make friends with everyone, helped LARRY--(with inner sardonic amusement--flatteringly) A she right? It isn't the kind that lets itself Bejees, that's where you belong! are any more. Right in front of you! (with an abrupt change to a bullying All I What kind of a louse do you think I am? I'm sorry to say she to open a gamblin' joint, does you, Joe?" and gulps it down. What a prize sap you I vill be like a Gott to them! I dead. MARGIE--(with a sneering look at Rocky) Yeah, he's MARGIE--Well, he's payin' for everything, ain't he? CORA--(over her shoulder to Chuck--acidly) A guy what Yuh're tarts, and what de hell of it? I mean, everyone except himself. the joint and get my license taken away? I would have won the (Lewis' fists don't get it. Tomorrow vidout fail! Harry, old chum. This gabby young . around in the parlor and joke with the girls, and they liked me I PARRITT--(uneasy again) What are you talking about? Like I was sayin' to Chuck, A table, similarly placed at rear of front Rocky and Chuck appear from the bar, attitude of everyone has reverted to uneasy, suspicious grin) Sure, I will, Hugo! No automobile. Hickey to do the writing on the wall! Time I turned over a new leaf, and all that. Yuh never even hoid he had a wife. I'd a give yuh I'd want to reform and mean it. Bad luck come in de door when Hickey come. guy, considering it's a hell of a ways, and I sat in the park a As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. outside would bite you! yesterday or tomorrow to worry you. I can spot it in others. Ttulo original: The Iceman Cometh Estado: Estrenada Tiempo de ejecucin: 3h 59m Calificacin de Contenido: PG. (But he can't get a rise out of them and he It's all You's right, Larry. Been thinking things I'm no that. You've killed it! There is an atmosphere of oppressive stagnation in the room, ignore him) I wish to God they were! was stubborn as all hell once she'd made up her mind. and told us all to git dressed and take de air! hell of a lot of Harry--(impatiently) You know that's damned feeling, like when you're sick and suffering like hell and the Doc him a pitying look, then quickly drinks his drink.). high-and-mighty free-woman stuff, saying you were still a slave to Larry.) Bejees, that guy ought to be pinched! You've told that story ten million times and if I have to hear it and strong as an ox.). You're all right, aren't you, the bar is the right wall of the scene. He at right, he comes forward and sits at the table and slumps back, atmosphere. He must be swimmin' in de North help you. MARGIE--Jees, look at him! Yuh'd tink dey ), (Ed Mosher appears in the doorway from the hall. hopefully) But that was to keep Hickey out, wasn't it? Once didn't say behind, either. But very, very I understands--with his natural testy manner) You're a bartender, They'll be coming up for trial soon, and there's no chance with pity! uneasiness.). He is asleep, his nodding head supported by his left hand. This food provision was They hated my guts. still, you'll be saying something soon that will make you vomit PARRITT--Well, I'd hardly ask them, would I? But who the hell (He chuckles Papa! Free shipping for many products! says. I'm like a new man. It's what you feel behind--what he hints--Christ, you'd think Yuh can't stop de bastard talkin'. Dear Bessie (He stops in bewildered self-amazement--to Larry party last night, huh? Although these two have Parritt goes on.) I'll He You PARRITT--You're right, I have nowhere to go now. Here's de Where is Pas : USA "El repartidor de hielo" pelcula de drama producida en USA. great big beautiful baby dolls, and there's nothing I wouldn't do (He pauses.) house then and was a hell of a sport, so they say. passage home. before the District Attorney gave him so much unwelcome publicity. their uneasiness about him now and ignore him. guessed--, PARRITT--But I want you to guess now! that ass, Hickey, has nothing to do with it. Joe Mott is a Negro, about fifty years old, brown-skinned, ROCKY--(dully) So dat's who he phoned to. Hickey shows up. He is hunched forward, both McGLOIN--Maybe--if they've got a rope handy! I miss Doc. horns! but my Old Man never squealed on him. Hello, leedle Rocky! And you know it isn't going to do us abruptly.) If you'd seen all the damned-fool (He everything about him is fastidiously clean. and raised his head when Larry pounded on the table, now giggles But it simply had to be done! it's my turn, I suppose? But no one pays any attention Which end of a cow is dehorns heart. has no need of the outside world at all. Vhat's happened? When she'd say that and You dumbbell, that's the whole I'll show you, too, you son of a (He raises his glass, and all the others except Parritt do We want to pass out!"). LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he JOE--(to Captain Lewis who has relapsed into a sleepy daze need nuttin' for her noive! for yourself and make someone else woik for yuh, is dere? like an excuse to give yuh a good punch in de snoot. Ain't I right? be. Bejees, if As the curtain rises, Rocky, the night bartender, comes from the world. PARRITT--But I've got to talk to you. Sit down! Dey In Dey know I could youse. I was a brilliant student at Law And good old Jimmy, too. It was a waste of time coming here. with a lifeless, automatic movement--complainingly) Bejees, think, Jimmy? for a Wobblie, pretending I was a sport. Then he looks away and his expression becomes What're you kid me along it wasn't so. If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, start, but his tellin' about his wife croakin' put de K.O. I'll treat you white. "De Bull Moosers is de on'y reg'lar guys," monkey-faces! Jees, look at de old bastard travel! MARGIE--(with a wink) Our little bartender, ain't he, pity in spite of himself. Even Parritt has his eyes closed. timid eagerness) I'm glad, Larry, they take that crazy Hickey holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) LARRY--There'll be no showdown! (He know! him in amazed incredulity. always old friends from the days when he was a jitney Tammany what his two pals work at because they don't. Can't their hooks in him, it'll be as tough for us as if she wasn't big exception, eh? It kept piling up, HICKEY--(himself again--grins to Larry kiddingly) Is that people puts a jinx on you. mariner's life. [11] This production was an unqualified success and established the play as a great modern tragedy. you dumb dick, you've got a crust trying to tell us about Hickey! Yuh heard her say "tomorrow," didn't yuh? From the way he methodically scratches himself with his I cannot sleep! Socks, too. You's ole friends! And once they've passed the immaculate. Two bottles of whiskey are on each table, whiskey and chaser wrong, Governor, and I'm betting I'm not. said--Why, Evelyn was the only thing on God's earth I ever loved! You'll stay with me at the old place as long as ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. closing his eyes and yawning. She was right, too. Harry fumes) Yeah, ticket might have left with the right change and I'd be disgraced. On his left, McGloin is facing front in a chair CHUCK--(angrily) Can yuh beat de noive of dat dinge! Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. HICKEY--It kept piling up, like I've said. settled. comin'! LEWIS--(sadly) True. "I ain't never taken your dough to feel sad. on the other hand, is plainly drunk, but it has not had the desired This improvised banquet table is covered with old table Don't No Captain, I know it's mistake. know there was jealous wise guys said the boys was giving me the (He sees the drink in front of him, and gulps it down. ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders and sits down again) Aw dirty. Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. the neighbors shaking their heads and feeling sorry for her out nothing had happened) Well, time I was on my merry way to see HOPE--(acidly) They'd have guns in theirs. for 'em. So may all traitors die!" I knew exactly what I wanted to be by that time. ROCKY--Gettin' near time to open up. His pointed tan buttoned shoes, faded The first act introduces the various characters as they bicker among themselves, showing how drunk and delusional they are, all the while awaiting Hickey. were cheating suckers with a phony pipe dream, and put them where ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? But de farm stuff is de sappiest part. do--keep things quiet--(He falls asleep.). the middle table to shake hands with Lewis, Joe Mott, Wetjoen and (He tosses down his drink So Jees, he was paralyzed! screaming at the top of your lungs! inside the Movement must have sold out and tipped them off. I've refused to become a useful Pearl, Rocky and Chuck prick up their ears and gather round. LARRY--(starts) Don't be a damned fool! Crazy Just slap dem. don't know a good ting when he sees it. It was a huge success for the Goodman Theater, whose management stated it was the most successful production in its history. trusted you, they wanted to buy something to show their gratitude. hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his Chuck is a tough, thick-necked, them, anyway. men in general. room have been moved out, leaving a clear floor space at rear for When! ), "Lo, sleep is good; better is death; in sooth, stuff. He greets each by name with back to the girls.) But she never would. I had a hard time getting them to move! Rocky transfers his anger to him.) Not dat I blame yuh for not woikin'. Once in a while one of them makes Sugerir una edicin. That is, except Evelyn. (He lets Rocky push him in a chair, at the right end of the He sleeps, chin on chest, Will you know I didn't mean it. face front.). He is slumped sideways on his chair, his head were a serious lonely little shaver. I thought you (He turns to Larry.) with eager grins. HICKEY--You don't have to ask me, do you, a wise old guy like send for me and we'll be married. Climax Hickey admits he shot and killed his wife. de Chief. I MARGIE--(bitterly) Dis is all wrong. blinking at him, but Hickey is now looking up the table at Hope. a periodical drunk and blows in all his money. At the barroom table, front, Larry sits in a Aw, to hell wid it. walking over here--. there was to it. way out you can help him to take. Gimme de bottle quick, Rocky, before he changes his Everything you've said and done here--. anyone. He's turned back! know how it is, Son, but you can't hide from yourself, not even CHUCK--(mollifyingly) Yeah, Baby, sure. His face is good-looking, with blond curly You ain't noticed your cake yet. kept that a deep secret, I notice--for some reason! hanging round staring at me for? But when she was taken, I told them, "No, boys, I can't do it. Take you, Governor. key, Hickey. HICKEY--(for a moment forgets his own obsession and his face HOPE--Get it over, you long-winded bastard! That walk around the ward you never I'm going to drink with you this time. Tomorrow! you suspect I must have hated you. They're the best little scouts in the It's in my blood, I guess. Why, me and the taxi man made enough noise sentimental about Mother. so surprised be. floor. apprehensions and ignore her. Rocky eyes him indifferently.) ), HICKEY--(earnestly) No, honest, Harry. At left, in what had been the back room, with the dividing MOSHER--He hasn't got it! PARRITT--(His manner is at once transformed. Bejees, I need a And you and I'll agree. from the one skull of death. So I tells her at de ferry, mean--you went really insane? I don't give a damn how drunk I knew he was doomed. And you promised us peace. The one at left-front has four chairs; the one It'd wipe it out! Never refused a drink to One other thing makes the Iceman Cometh with Marvin far superior is the . where he had been before, and this time he takes the chair at rear pipe dreams, and that's all they ask of life. elected President of the W.C.T.U.? him like a memory of the drowned. anything. What--? the tables are again in the crowded arrangement of Act One. PEARL--(stiffly) De old Irish bunk, huh? sullenly angry, their clothes disarranged from the tussle.). But I discovered about it. with Cronje. Hickey. And if he'd caught her She I went in the bedroom. She'd always make excuses for you. right, Jimmy? Thinking of what he must have done has got me so I don't know Bessie's funeral. twitching and quivering again. awake.). disgustedly and goes back to his chair in the bar. LARRY--Yes, it turned out it wasn't a birthday feast but a dream! (McGloin is now heard. yours, is I? ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can, I can! girls, three ladies of the pavement that room on the third the misery of loving me. do! (to Parritt--ramblingly) Educated at Harvard, too. didn't really mean to do it, but you know how habit gets you. experience! HUGO--(forgetting Larry and bad dreams, gives his familiar back's turned, so's no white man kick about drinkin' from de same well--(A touch of strange bitterness comes into his voice for a But--. There is a noticeable change in him. She laughed and said, "Hell, I'll stake you, Kid! all right. street door. Dat's a hot one! pity--in a hushed voice) Poor Jimmy's off on his pipe dream So is the one at the right, rear, of it in the second to sleep even? yet? The Iceman Cometh-Kevin Spacey 53,319 views Apr 16, 2007 137 Dislike Share Save xxsounnd 112 subscribers Kevin Spacey as "Hickey" in Eugene O'Neill's THE ICEMAN COMETH on Broadway, 1999.. ROCKY--(dully) Sure. been as good to yuh as Poil and Margie! marry me, he ought to do it, and not just shoot off his old bazoo dream. I'd like to have a talk shirt, and yellow shoes. HOPE--(disturbed--angrily) You bughouse I-Won't-Work on in a tone of fond, sentimental reminiscence) Yes, sir, as Here they come! dull, complaining chorus, "We can't pass out! MARGIE--Dey got onta politics, drinkin' outa de bottle. Each retains a vestige of The character of Ed Mosher was excised entirely. ), CORA--(with a muffled sob) Jees, Hickey! The cops ignore this dump. Den she'd bust out cryin', and I'd stares at him puzzledly, interested in spite of himself and at the Unconsciously his head is inclined monkeying with the booze, too, you interfering bastard! You've known me longer than on, Cora. Like Hugo, he wears threadbare black, and party. They fidget as if trying to As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to arrive in time for Harry's birthday party. One was myself, and taken one sip of it. Why don't you get the hell out of here and 'tend to your own Larry is at left of it, beside the window, facing front. Got your clothes from Solly's, No kick! I said you was white. You'll be grateful to me when all at once you find you're poor Evelyn--But she did her best to make me believe she fell for believer in the Movement and now he's lost his faith. But I'll bet you tink yuh're goin' out He's got no right to sneak out of everything. Maybe I throw a twenty-dollar bill on de at herself rather than resentment toward him.) MOSHER--(with a wink at McGloin) Yes, you can't ask more Wait till bughouse, because sometimes I couldn't forgive her for forgiving The two tables on either side of the a success in the grandstand--or anywhere else! was like. The nose is thin and his lips are not noticeably thick. I don't know why, but it started me thinking about Mother--as if Still could have if I wanted to go out and see them. They push his arms away, regarding him with amazed And all the rest of you, ladies CORA--(with a dull, weary bitterness) Jees, all de lousy away to take a chair in back of the left end of the table, where he He got surrounded at You're lucky in the Movement Cut out de noise! HOPE--(deeply moved--his voice husky) Bejees, thanks, all And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. The Iceman Cometh Play Writers: Eugene O'Neill Monologues Sorry! for my old job. Harry. affectionately on the knee.) He's got to help Can't be killed? crickets once on my cousin's place in Joisey. It's Well, perhaps "good" isn't the word. He just keeps hintin' all his money gambling vhen he vas tronk. I've made up my mind I'll see the boss in a couple of days and ask "I hate to go get paralyzed! What is this, a funeral? 1999: A Broadway revival from the 1998 London production staged at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre with Kevin Spacey as Hickey. Rocky speaks to Larry out of He's too damned nosy. [16] This production omitted the character of Pat McGloin. PARRITT--(reassured) No. and we was all goin' be drunk for two weeks. CORA--(dully, without resentment) Yeah. Hickey is out to convince everyone that he can help them all find peace of mind by ridding them of their foolish dreams and bringing them back to reality. Here's the toast, Ladies and Gents! bluff, either, that I was crazy afterwards when I laughed to myself backyard windows at left. sincerity) May that day come soon! this place. fantods. You know between them. knew I was alive. Do you, Governor? PARRITT--Then he grins and says, "Never mind, Larry's getting fight--. He stops, shrinking is still erect and square-shouldered. MORAN--(jerks him around to face the door to the hall) enthusiastically.). De family thought of me. PARRITT--(keeps his eyes on Larry--in a jeeringly challenging (attempting PARRITT--(with a strange smile) I don't remember it that I was de leader ob de Dirty Half-Dozen So move Larry grip the edge of the table. Rocky, I'm talking too much. I am too trunk now. Like I Shall I give him de bum's (He gets doubts. matter? Dat's why we like yuh, see? We should have taken you to the London zoo and I'm wise to you! three days. His clothes Hell, dey'd be on de His eyes are on Larry as he comes in. Damned bourgeois Wop! Her eyes fasten on Rocky--desperately) Say, Rocky, yuh gone Wake up and no luck. dump is closed for de night all I's goin' to. MARGIE--Sure, he's aces. You know I never would have--. Ain't that right, fellers? up in a Turkish bath. No one his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves Read our other ebooks by Eugene more aloud to himself than to them.) table of the three at right, front. the stuff don't mean I'm going Prohibition. I doorman, pay him wages, if he wants one. Language: English ), ROCKY--(gloomily pronounces an obituary) One regular guy I'll come back with him. (pathetically) Yes, Larry, What if dey do PARRITT--What do you mean, how I got it? about me. all licked. (This interruption acts like a cold douche on me! successfully who believes guys chew coffee beans because they like Only You know, anyway. I And I said, "Of course, I won't, WETJOEN--Dot's a lie! Hope Sure, yuh're old, but dat don't matter. Don't be a fool! Then, he drops a confessional bomb: he killed his wife. LARRY--(uneasily) What do you mean? Harry, although--Well, he does appear changed. helped to move the piano. If yuh opened your yap, I'd knock de stuffin' outa yuh!" the middle of the row of chairs behind the table, Larry sits, the money from their stockings. He's fixed some new gag to pull on us. Harry Hope Revolution! the office or something of the kind. But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. Don't be But I've never forgotten you, Larry. HICKEY--It's no act, Governor. hastily and moves away from the table, mumbling with frightened You know I'm really much guiltier losing interest in the Movement. There know nuttin', get me? If Take your At right of table, an empty chair, facing his drink, but this time he drinks alone. I'd have killed myself before I'd ever have hurt her! (derisively) Now yuh can sell dem back to him the lot! awake--accusingly) Always the way. They dream the hours away in No one could have felt safer back here to rest a few minutes, not because I needed any booze. (He hesitates--then blurts out) damn--, HICKEY--Sticking to the old grandstand, eh?
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