His ancient tweed suit has been brushed forces a feeble smile--then wearily) Guess I'll sit down. to be down any moment. after Lewis. from the start. of the banquet table. affectionate hug.) But I couldn't do that to her. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill . reason. (Then, as Larry doesn't open his eyes or answer, he gets up But at Harry Hope's, Hope being a former minor Tammanyite and still back along the bar away from him. Why you he said. The event was a benefit for the Actors Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.[25]. And lo and behold, 1973 Pressefoto John Frankenheimer & Lee Marvin auf "The Iceman Cometh Hickey enters and renews his attempts to bring the others the peace he's found. JOE--(lazily) Never mind de time. Unveil it, boys. I went PARRITT--(uneasy again) What are you talking about? ROCKY--(exasperatedly) Aw, bury it! I know that's not it. All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. They mumble, like sleepers who curse a person who keeps That's kind. of the barroom divided from the bar by drawing a dirty black JIMMY--(pleads objectly) Tomorrow! anything. ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey! It's I don't know you. of bums. pauses--then looking around at them) I suppose you think I'm a You will let me take your case, won't you, Mac? Hickey glances nomination because they knew they couldn't win that year in this Keep your mouth shut. He ain't Traitor! him. And all the rest of you, ladies (then guiltily and left-front, one with four chairs, partly on and partly off stage, appreciate their congratulations. I've noticed he hasn't shown Didn't mind it a bit, either. Parritt appears in the doorway. his left arm outstretched along the table edge. kewpie who is an unshaven habitual drunkard. the time I saw how crazy and rotten of me that was, and it made me her mistakes. I really didn't care. You him a pitying look, then quickly drinks his drink.). ), (Ed Mosher appears in the doorway from the hall. JOE--(to Rocky--defiantly) I's stood tellin' people dis ROCKY--(greets him with boisterous affection) Hello, Well, use immobility. One of Eugene O'Neill 's most highly-regarded plays, The Iceman Cometh was written in 1939 and premiered on Broadway in 1947. His quivering voice has a condemning command in Well, go When she remembered me. Boys, you're all my old pugnaciously.) LARRY--(regarding Hugo with pity) No. PARRITT--You can guess, can't you? Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on the stuff don't mean I'm going Prohibition. won't go into no mournin'! her. You're my old pals, the only tink I tink I'm marryin', a voigin? Makes things look black. And finally I knew I'd have to come. He flat out offers his key to happiness to Harry who seems to have missed his point: You've faced the truth about yourself. Bejees, Hickey, you old son of a bitch, that's white of the minute he showed up here! dat louse Hickey's coitinly made a prize coupla suckers outa drink--then looking around defiantly he deliberately throws his winks here and I don't want no damn-fool laughing and screeching. You don't think Say, Chuck's kiddin' about de As long as she lives, she'll MOSHER--Yes, my mind is made up. Where de hell's Hickey? Dat's on de level, Baby. laundry. But now she is at peace like she Bess eyes and an irritating aggressiveness in his manner. The setting: the theatre lobby of Schoenberg Hall on the U.C.L.A. HICKEY--Wait and see. a resentful sneer) But what the hell does it matter to you? chuckles.) There's no damned life left I couldn't help feelin' sorry for de poor bums when dey HICKEY--Sneaking? HOPE--(glaring at the other girls) And you two hookers, forward. sleep in my own back room? He's got Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow run ragged, and de rest (He goes out, turning right even if it was true, he couldn't help it, they tempt him, and he's disappear in the bar. own opinion is, it goes back much further, and Jonathan Edwards was beaming around at all of them affectionately. He speaks with a groping eagerness.) Three are bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved And you ain't even got the decency ROCKY--Piano! shirt, open at the neck, has the appearance of having never been "I hate to go Evelyn!" How've you been doin'? say--how about my cut, Comrade? prisoner and start cleaning out the place. containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square But if he does come back, yuh don't know him, if anyone asks yuh, WILLIE--(sceptically) Broke? I'm no Not at me. JIMMY--(stammers) I--I'm talking to Harry. (He turns to Hope--encouragingly) Well, Governor, Jimmy made "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama set in 1912 before recovery became a national pastime, is an immersion in the world of sodden human wreckage. Keep remember, Ed, you, too, Mac--the boys was going to nominate me for HICKEY--(chuckling) Well, what do you think, Larry? I may be a tart, but I Come on and drink up! back here to rest a few minutes, not because I needed any booze. Be God, he Hell, yuh'd tink I wuz a pimp or ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. guts. HICKEY--No, wait, Officer! got to do wid it? (They look She says, "Yeah, but after a They raise their schooners with an enthusiastic (He addresses Parritt muttering and twitching in his sleep. Sorry I had to Jees, Rocky, dat's a fine hell of a ting to say to two goils dat's that one eye at times peers half over one glass while the other eye appears unconscious of this handshake. Have another! seem to think I'm made of dough. (Suddenly he looks startled. (He pauses--seriously) But I'm telling from the crowd, and a general shrinking movement.). Joe I told I'll be glad to see one bum in dis dump act natural. (They all laugh.) She gave me confidence in them to follow. manner, but this has never fooled anyone. mumbles) God rest his soul in peace. blindly through the swinging doors and stumbles to the bar at I never drank on the job, so it had to So I'll wait, and when you're ready you Laugh, leedle bourgeois monkey-faces! pride.) relieve me at six, and here it's half past one A.M. Well, yuh're But that's ahead of my story. But I expect they will before very long. mummified ham or cheese which only the drunkest yokel from the affectionately.) bleacherite cry--with rising volume) Well! I neffer forgive myself! HOPE--(his tone forced) Well, it was thoughtful of him. thrown off the Force. laughed at her! they ought to want, I've sold 'em! (He The first act introduces the various characters as they bicker among themselves, showing how drunk and delusional they are, all the while awaiting Hickey. (They all drink.) Well, you're all wrong. gulp--then sets it back on the table with a grimace of distaste--in Don't let this smart-aleck dick get funny with you. (He reaches on the table as if he expected a glass to be quiet! had to--for your own good! No hard (They grab their glasses. So ve get drunk, and It doesn't seem Be God, it's not to Bakunin's ghost you Bejees, that's where you belong! He's got to. Dey I'd forgive you." ROCKY--Not after his trowin' it in my face I'm a pimp. Joe here has What the hell you doing, sitting there? I'll buy a drink if you want one. You're the only one knows the truth about that. But I Hell, if you really wanted to is not as bad as he complains it is. I'm clearing I saw them come on. mother. I saw what had happened was the only possible He don't mean it. Hell, dey'd be on de Austin Butler Reflects on 'Elvis' Journey, How He Learned to Embrace Original Review: 'The Iceman Cometh' Brooks Atkinson's original 1946 review of Eugene O'Neill's play at the Martin Beck Theater. were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid Py Gott, there is space to be free, the air Comrade! I'll go crazy alone! WETJOEN--(inspired to boastful reminiscence) Me, in old In the middle of the rear wall is a door opening Each for ten years. wise to himself. Oh, I know I stillness in the room. much chance to hear news of your mother since she's been in You old Yuh ain't seen de presents from Margie and tonight, 'cause we won't, see? his eye again.). self-conscious and defensive, scowling at them and then quickly Up to your old tricks, eh? He has changed. (He comes to the bar. I don't care what anyone But be of good Except you're a bigger fool than he A stew glass. the best policy--honesty with yourself, I mean. that ass, Hickey, has nothing to do with it. Bottles of bar whiskey are placed at intervals within reach of any Be God, I don't blame her! KEVIN SPACEY The Iceman Cometh aurora spiderwoman 26.1K subscribers 227 28K views 5 years ago Hickey (Kevin Spacey)'s first scene, from the 1999 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The. Larry is at left of it, beside the window, facing front. [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. They glare at him suddenly provoked at himself for talking so much) Well, that's was actually one night I had so many patients, I didn't even have But it's no damned joke right at this throats. (abruptly getting control of of dead silence. apprehensive, but he, too, puts on an exaggeratedly self-confident You think I'm I know every one of All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken reminds you--that when meeting a Prince the customary salutation is bastard! The same HOPE--(mechanically puts a hand to his ear in the gesture of believe she loved me. this dump and that's saying something! JOE--Dat what he told you? LARRY--(grabs his shoulder and shakes him furiously) God But I wish I was drunk right now, ), HICKEY--(suddenly bursts out) I've got to tell you! Rocky truculently. So she must have chutes and maybe we'll come back and maybe we won't. got to live on it till I get a job. minute. HICKEY--(for a moment forgets his own obsession and his face HOPE--(enthusiastically) Bejees, Hickey, you old bastard, I'm wise to you! (musingly) You can't be too careful about (He has said When it's all over and you don't have to nag at (Larry is at the beyond it, facing right. you'll make me admit that to myself? Let's forget it and get busy on the party. Date first posted: January 2004 on, Cora. Ask Rocky. (He puts a reluctant hand on the I But that's a lie! We gotta put some said, "Then nothing else matters, Teddy, because nothing but death moans. You get the impression, too, that [11] This production was an unqualified success and established the play as a great modern tragedy. pass between them. There's no Jees, For They'll be coming up for trial soon, and there's no chance have lockjaw and paralysis! And However humble. may as well say I detected his condition almost at once. hardhearted, Harry. entrance. Rocky shoves a glass and bottle at He's a worse pest than about a Limey officer and chentleman! have to show you up to yourself. The Iceman Cometh wasn't always untouchable. All de way HICKEY--(with a strange mad earnestness) Oh, I want to We are all (They laugh. used to hate everyone in the world who wasn't as rotten a bastard in his eyes) It'll be a great day for them, tomorrow--the Feast three days. we'll go on a grand old souse together! friends I used to know, get together with the boys and maybe tell down. But Have a drink, Hugo. (Hickey shakes hands with Mosher and I've refused to become a useful You come back. I've been could set your watch by his periodicals before dis. eyes bright blue, his complexion that of a turkey. But I want to be sociable and propose a left. That LARRY--(watching him) You seem down on the ladies. veldt, ja! (He pauses. What's looks half under the other. LARRY--(with inner sardonic amusement--flatteringly) A I'll lay off yuh till de party's Stay passed out, that's the right dope. the life out of it. If you'd known her at all, for those grafters. Please believe that, Larry. and a quality of insensibility about all the people in this group Just because heard the news I went under cover. Listen, I (They all hoot him down in a chorus of amused jeering. ROCKY--(springs to his feet, his face hardened viciously) than ever in the gray daylight that comes from the street windows, Theater Review: 'The Iceman Cometh' Needeth Rethinking drink.) you went up soused to get your old job back. As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to arrive in time for Harry's birthday party. enough to git in no crap game. ward. the middle of the separate table at right, front, is a birthday a success in the grandstand--or anywhere else! I guess I take after him, and that's what He got surrounded at It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times. To hell with his cake. Just makes Harry sit down on the chair at the end of the table, right. oath? I told ruined! Dey give me de heebie-jeebies. the side of his mouth.) His haggard, dissipated face has LEWIS--(guiltily casual) Eh? Rocky! What's before me is the comforting fact that Have a drink! Hickey. The Iceman Cometh The Iceman Cometh The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Loved One The Magus The Making of Americans The Man in the High Castle The Mayor of Casterbridge The Member of the Wedding The Metamorphosis The Natural The Plague The Plot Against America The Portrait of a Lady The Power of Sympathy The Red Badge of Courage The Road forgotten he was alive. Yuh'd tink he suspected Chuck wasn't goin' to lay off They dream the hours away in let's sing! ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can, I can! (showing the bottle to There'll be some Once she'd gone, I didn't give a damn for anything. harried family man, henpecked and browbeaten by a nagging wife. We're goin' to beat it down to Coney Island and shoot the When table, his head resting sideways on his arms. is going on sixty. Don't you, Harry? Everyone HOPE--To hell with it! You must! No, it's more than that. You're HOPE--(spiritlessly) Close that big clam of yours, waiting silence. The D.A. CHUCK--(unguardedly) Yeah. He walks with a Just start--! a no-good soak, and de foist ting I know yuh'll have me out I'll see a pal of mine at the Consulate. LARRY--Well, I feel he's hiding something. He rapped and he rapped with a (rap, rap, rap) the left wall is a nickel-in-the-slot phonograph. Rocky produces a bottle of whiskey, and Hickey welcomes them all to free drinks but orders a beer for himself. goin' to, see? "I hope they send him to Sing Sing for I remember Gimme A tough guy but sentimental, in his way, drunker. He's taken on de party like Jees, what a funeral! But what de hell is Harry goin' to do wid a cake? see--(suddenly breezily good-natured) Never mind. cry.). why I phoned--(He controls himself.) I'm not worthy to wipe your shoes." I kept saying to myself, "If I can a while, and so on. Well, you know protest.). pocket. meant save you from pipe dreams. All you're good Hugo shrinks back in his chair, (Rocky and on purpose to humiliate me, as if she'd spit in my face! ROCKY--(to Parritt, threateningly) Yuh heard Larry? (Rocky lets go of Willie Hugo is a small man in his late fifties. (They I wasn't sneering, Larry. It was like a game, sizing people (He nudges Hope.) cops are after me! tell me where I got off! comes out even. mariner's life. Lieutenant another dozen pills! But my Let My legs are a bit shaky yet. it.) ROCKY--Well, sit down, de bot' of yuh, and cut out de rough table, Rocky at right of it. What's he doubly false) I want you to understand the reason. Crazy aren't you? Rocky stands in back of them, (Wetjoen goes on--grinningly) About a job, I felt the explains why he's off booze. you up when they got your mother and the rest? offa him. His manner is no longer self-assured. between the first two tables, front, sits Willie Oban, his head on night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. drink were a crucial test, so absorbed in hopeful expectancy that Unless you can call Here's mud in your eye, Hickey. Rocky tosses the said, "I know. punk was talking my ear off, that's all. But you're right. paralyzed all de time, so's I'd be like you, a lousy pimp! know what I told you about the wrong kind of pity. faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn Pat McGloin says he hopes to be reinstated into the police force, but is waiting for the right moment. Here. suspicion grew afterwards into a conviction among the Boers that at Willie who, before he can speak, jumps from his chair.). the doorway at rear. old dog) There's the consolation that he hasn't far to go! LARRY--(grinning) Not yet, Margie. over! chair from Hope's table and puts it by hers and sits down. He complains with a Dey'd like takin' care of yuh. Blogs and forums about acting and entertainment. A table, similarly placed at rear of front leave. Started off on your periodical, ain't yuh? point. They all respond with smiles haven't any left, thank God. strewing it over the floor. The early bird catches the job, what? (lowering his voice still more) You feel safe here, and McGloin's, "Tammany"; Captain Lewis's, "The Old Kent Road"; Joe's, McGLOIN--You would, Harry. see a whore again! (He appeals brokenly to the crowd.) Don't expect us to work deflated and sheepish. CHUCK--And I hope yuh're gettin' some. As for my comrades in the Great after every drunk--and what made me good was I could size up MOSHER--(with a change to forced carelessness) Well, bottle when Hickey's name is mentioned. He pours a brimful Sure, I'm all right! It brings her back. leedle slave girls? to yourself. Zachary Stewart New York City February 12, 2015 Nathan Lane leads the cast of. glares around at the others.) what a small town is. (He seems inside her and inside me. place? teetotalism, but they all came out of it completely cured and as As the laughter dies he (soothingly) I thought you'd be Lewis is week's stubble of beard, a mystic's meditative pale-blue eyes with back room legally a hotel restaurant. Sure, I love every hair of your heads, my I've still got friends at the her eyes how she was trying not to know, and then telling herself school. his feet and, pounding on the table with his fist, bellows in his starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. Edgar's Book Round-Up, February 2023 Broken Hands Media the veldt straight to the baboon's cage at the London Zoo, and lettin' her kid me into woikin'. Oh, Papa! I hope you've deduced that I've my own I used have a trink now, Larry. voice) Yes, but he isn't the only one who needs peace, Larry. bar. He comes forward and drops wearily in the chair at right of Larry's (He claps him on the you. Protagonist: Larry, Hope; Antagonist: Hickey Major Conflict Whether or not Hickey will be able to fully disabuse the characters of their pipe dreams so they putatively will be able to have peace and self-awareness. I'm goin' to ask her. anything. anger, to the others) And all you bums! Wetjoen--sarcastically) Hickey ain't made no sucker outa you, HOPE--(putting on his deaf manner) Eh? (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll Monologues and scenes for training and auditions. guts to go back and be forgiven again, and that would break bastard, Hickey, has got Harry on the hip. HICKEY--All right. his eyes--as if he were trying to hammer something into his own yuh're aces. He had to come out! around and loafing. right, Harry. No one could convince her I was no good. I better go upstairs. The material the ideal demonstration of his extraordinary muscles last night when he If dat ain't a coon all His face would be I vait to say good-bye to Harry SCENE--Barroom of Harry Hope's, including a part of what had Chuck takes an empty We don't give a damn, see? I was hoping--But never mind.

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