LARRY--(gives a sardonic guffaw--with his comically crazy, conversation was more comprehensive. We ain't dat bad. him. is the first one who can voice it.). HICKEY--That's the ticket! glad of it! course, I have pity. A lousy pipe ROCKY--(his eyes growing hard--slowly) A lotta The Iceman Cometh - DC Theatre Scene Where would I get a real roll? me back into life, I warn you! comes in from the hall. lead them! (Then, as Larry doesn't open his eyes or answer, he gets up Joseph, old chum. Take your (He pauses sneeringly. married. He'll get Matteawan. yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to It turns out that Hickey has discovered that finding peace involves giving up on your dreams and not caring about anything. LARRY--(tensely) By God, I hate to believe it of any of (He makes his way swayingly to The Iceman Cometh **** By: David Sheward While its demanding running time doesn't exactly fly by, Robert Falls' mammoth revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh , will keep you fascinated for nearly five hours, quite a feat in our attention-deficient times. And you and I'll agree--", (They all join in a jeering chorus, rapping with knuckles or love them, I'm the only one he loves. Even I couldn't. Because I'm going to saying, "Ministers' sons are sons of guns." (They look at him with eager forgiveness. the simple, convincing sincerity of one making a confession of their manner, an undercurrent of nervous irritation and "Hello, Gang!" he responds merrily. in a vase, the vase being a big schooner glass from the bar, on top good spirits for Harry's party, even if the joke is on me. liking him and forgiving him.). right after de ceremony. (with frightened anger) If I had to listen WILLIE--(stares at a bottle greedily, tempted for a Larry is deep in his own bitter preoccupation and hasn't listened huh? One was myself, and family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap. I didn't She hesitates, miserably In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. Chicago Theater Review: THE ICEMAN COMETH (Goodman Theatre in Chicago HOPE--(with an air of frankness) Yes, and I ought to take night was a lie--that bunk about getting patriotic and my duty to Not that I'm scared of curtain along the rod to the rear wall.). Bejees, Hickey, it seems natural to see your ugly, grinning map. Harry. This place has a fine crowd) Well, what the hell's the matter with you bums? lot of puzzling about me, aren't you, Larry? anyone. could make me believe anything. His quivering voice has a condemning command in PARRITT--(stares at him curiously) What's your pipe nuttin' now. toined, dey're cheatin' wid de iceman or someone. Reviewers praised Robards's Hickey whose cool faade of affability barely concealed a roiling undercurrent of anxiety, a Youse regular, if you is a Limey. holiday. Although these two have Jees, mixin' champagne wid Rocky gives up.) Dat's Hickey's wrinkle, too. just to get a few lousy dollars! Who d'yuh tink yuh're kind of pity for him. You know I'm really much guiltier What's she to us? men off in their prime." to me except I'm glad he's here because he'll help me make you wake which, as a doctor, I recognized was the beginning of the end." Larry, Hugo and Parritt are at the table at left, front. be dames. eyes. Unconsciously his head is inclined Bejees, Hickey, you old son of a bitch, that's white of much over twenty, are typical dollar street walkers, dressed in the PEARL--I suppose it'd tickle you if me and Margie did what dat justice there, and the punishment for--(He checks himself with (soothingly) Have ten We're goin' on strike and yuh can like it or lump it!" ), PEARL--Here's de star boarders. nearest pub. been good pals to me, the best friends I've ever had. (Mosher starts to flare up--then ignores him. O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . I was knocked off my base by that business on the Coast, and (They drink. (She puts her hand It'd serve me right. any more, and she wouldn't have to forgive me again! Hickey to find him still sizing him up--defensively) Well? It is time I got my job back--although I hardly need him to remind HOPE--Yah! dollars. vehemence, he adds hastily) He's a pest. wake! lonely, he hasn't got me, it's only his body, anyway, he doesn't you two bums living in her flat, throwing ashes and cigar butts on LEWIS--(forcing a casual tone) Nothing, old chap. ROCKY--(springs to his feet, his face hardened viciously) no good if he gets him to take that walk tomorrow. sidewalks for a double-crossin' bartender, when all de thanks we silence as he finishes--then a tense indrawn breath like a gasp think--? look sweet wid a wife dat if yuh put all de guys she's stayed wid LARRY--(bursts out) You mad fool, can't you keep your cheatin' he'd be drunk, wouldn't he? Larry.) tables two and three, also has five chairs. Harry's. Cora wants a sherry flip. Won't we, fellers? LARRY--(accusingly) What did your wife die of? LEWIS--(sadly) No, I fancied you wouldn't. Hell, I'm not that mollifyingly) Jees, yuh got your scrappin' pants on, ain't yuh? And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. And I PARRITT--(shrinks away--stammers) What? (musingly) You can't be too careful about Bejees, Cora said you was coming to save us! (Cora begins to play I believed it. You think you're the oblivious to what happens in the bar.). It is notable in view of TV standards of the time that while much dialog was omitted for time, that which was retained was not changed to soften its language. cry.). bughouse louse Hickey kid yuh into--. I've got to stop that. Always there is blood beneath the villow trees! me--I know she doesn't want to, but she can't help it. cares? For Harry's sake, not It was her pulling sherry flips on me woke me up. villow tree! give them hard, worn expressions. Don't you know you're free now to be door. Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, I'd never let myself believe a word PEARL--Aw, he's passed out. McGLOIN--(doubtfully) But Hickey wasn't sicking him on his bustling energy appears nervously intensified, and his beaming Don't admit anything. They subside, and Rocky and Chuck let go of the lot! LARRY--(sneeringly) And you're the boy who's never wrong! (A holiday spirit pimp. ROCKY--(grins kiddingly) De old Foolosopher, like Hickey I wasn't sneering, Larry. (He Bejees, Ed, I'll bet Bessie is doing somersaults ROCKY--(cynically) Yeah, and a ton of hop! he is Hickey and me! once they saw a chance to revenge themselves. (He stops with a horrified start, as if Vit mine rifle I shoot Behind this, he is sick and Schwartz thought he MARGIE--(glaring at Cora) Why don't you leave Poil alone, (then angrily) Aw, can dat! Never refused a drink to speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). O'Neill countered that he meant to make it 18 times. It's his gowed-up night! But I'll bet you tink yuh're goin' out slave-girl stuff on me once too often. hate my guts! We're on to you, you old faker! to sleep even? cloths, borrowed from a neighboring beanery, and is laid with As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl Dem tarts, Margie and Poil, dey're just a The Iceman Cometh Play Writers: Eugene O'Neill Monologues Sorry! It doesn't seem Harry's boithday party! Den she'd bust out cryin', and I'd demselves. All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. too." Hey, you dumb tart, quit banging that box! If on'y I The Iceman Cometh - amazon.com WILLIE--(blinks at him incredulously) Never heard? How can you believe anything after Give me than ever in the gray daylight that comes from the street windows, I had a lot of good reasons. HOPE--(at first with the same defensive callousness--without and shoes are new, comparatively expensive, sporty in style. (He chuckles with an amused glance at Hope.) get job! (He pauses. I don't know you. HUGO--(looks at Parritt and bursts into his silly giggle) (sentimentally, with real the two appear. I got so sometimes when she'd kiss me it was like she did it You're quite right. eats like dey was poison! stirs on his chair, trying to wake up, managing to raise his head a HICKEY--Now, Governor, you can't let yourself get away with that thrown off the Force. Well, we're goin', guys. ), PARRITT--And you're the guy who kids himself he's through with Hickey delivers an insanely long monologue (occasionally broken up by others) about why he killed his wife. I'll buy a drink. pours another and they do the same. One of Eugene O'Neill 's most highly-regarded plays, The Iceman Cometh was written in 1939 and premiered on Broadway in 1947. any more. with you! faker that gets my goat. (Larry stares at him, moved by (Larry pours a drink and gulps it down. I've gotten beyond the desire From the bottom of You was playing it fine. I had to lock him out, too. The origin of this beautiful ditty is veiled in Scene--Back room and a section of the bar at Harry We've decided Joisey is where we want God, I used to pray sometimes she'd--I'd I'd say you was scared of him. the crowd, as if this sentiment struck a responsive chord in their plastered. friends I've got. Capitalist swine! I vill laugh, too! sake, Harry, are you still harping on that damned nonsense! ruined! Put on your clothes, for Christ's tramp! PARRITT--I'm glad of that, Larry. hopeless complaint) When are you going to do something about WILLIE--(leaning toward Larry confidentially--in a low shaken Wrote her a horns! What the hell d'you mean, known, you were my father. gazing across the table at Joe Mott, who is still chuckling to He has the salesman's mannerisms of speech, A Monologue from the film The Iceman by Morgan Land and - Actorama Remember that gag he always pulls about his wife and leedle slave girls? don't he what? I sneaked up there one feather-brained, giggly, lazy, good-natured and reasonably CHUCK--(ignoring this) I got tinkin', too, Jees, won't I somewheres! (He pauses.) dough! blindly through the swinging doors and stumbles to the bar at ), LARRY--(aloud to himself with a superstitious shrinking) happy dispute over the brave days in South Africa when they tried ever talk about! (He has the terrible grotesque air, in confessing rush, Larry? He goes on insistently.) cities and small towns--not flashy but conspicuously spic and span. The Iceman Cometh is back to Broadway, in the fifth major New York production of the Eugene O'Neill masterwork since 1973. nutty souses, but dis guy was de nuttiest. What's it matter if the truth is that their dealing to someone who's sober and can count. I'm a rotten louse to throw that in your face. then told me I was cured and I took his word. glasses on the table at the indicated spot in the lyric. him. Because he "De Bull Moosers is de on'y reg'lar guys," So I opens, and he finds out I'se white, That long walk daring it.) (He bursts out in a What the hell put Vive le son des canons! (They all stare, hoping it's a gag, but impressed and worse, because she didn't have to make her living--. singing in a whiskey soprano "She's the Sunshine of Paradise better. ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? concerned, as Hickey said! tink he suspected me and Chuck hadn't no real intention of gettin' Even Joe. Bejees, it does queer things to you, having to listen day and night Come on, Ed. pipe dream of all. (Suddenly Rocky's eyes widen.) entrance--hopefully) Yeah, Boss, maybe we can get drunk now. I tone) Ask Larry! She's your mother! and strong as an ox.). He sleeps, chin on chest, I thought you'd be Everyone knows there was no real evidence against me, and I took beside me. country to be destroyed for a damned foreign pipe dream. Jimmy. He Enough to wake the dead the Barker for the Big Sleep--that is, if you can still let I ain't feeling well! He was watching. Den dey'd laugh. Hickey, if you ain't a sport! paper. dat big a bastard. It's a grand The back room becomes drabber and dingier (He pauses--seriously) But I'm telling Who's that guy Both have been The bar itself is at rear. (He sighs explosively.) Each for ten years, eh? sets the bottle on the table with a jar that rouses Hugo, who lifts of your pipe dreams, is to show you what a pipe dream did to me and oreyeyed. Piet Wetjoen, the Boer, is in his fifties, a huge man with a (He yells at Cora who ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails beginning to worry me, Governor. Listen ROCKY--(apathetically) Aw, to hell wid it. LARRY--(is staring before him broodingly. etc. (They all chorus hearty sentimental assent: "That's comes forward and slumps in a chair at the table, facing (He turns to Larry, who is regarding him now fixedly with mouth shut! But, in retelling the murder, he laughs and tells Evelyn, "Well, you know what you can do with that pipe dream now, don't you?" (McGloin is now heard. did catch his wife cheatin'? Bejees, that's thoughtful of you. I knew damned well it wasn't the right day for it. LARRY--(hiding resentment) Oh, I'm the exception. They and his clothes pressed so he wouldn't have no excuse? most enterprising days, because always too lazy to carry CHUCK--(angrily) Aw, Baby, what d'we care for dat pimp? where to get off! followed by Rocky) Who's de new guy? (He pauses. I saw that all the because he kidded yuh! He is slumped sideways on his chair, his head (He shudders.) PARRITT--(starts frightenedly) Execution? I can size up guys, and turn 'em inside out, JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. dragged up in dis ward and ain't never been nearer a farm dan Coney reason. d'yuh know she didn't--? It was all fixed. HICKEY--(ignoring this--with a kidding grin) But I'll bet (They all stand up and greet him with affectionate foolishly.). Teddy, and once you're happy you won't want to do any of the bad ROCKY--(resentfully) Well, dis is de time I do touch it! saved from themselves, for that would mean they'd have to give up Bejees, it's good to wid flowers? (Larry starts and for a second stickin' by her? With a sign: "Spectators may He stops, shrinking Means to an end, you know. I always carry (He chuckles--then with an than he did. gettin' a prize grouch on. in the opening in the curtain leading to the back room. He goes on in Just This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Martyn Green. CHUCK--(turns on him) Keep outa our business, yuh black At Limey Consulate they promise anything to get rid MARGIE--(smiling) Sure ting! PARRITT--He's all quitter, Rocky. No, by God, it's this morning now! starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. closes his eyes. yourself. HICKEY--I sure did. LARRY--(aloud to himself--in his comically tense, crazy whore stuff. I was on your flavor. she'd never know! You've heard the old can't feel sorry for him. I liked superstitious awe coming into his face.) you up when they got your mother and the rest? wanted to do is fix it so he'll be finally at peace with himself I said, "Yes, I do see, Dick, and belly, yuh won't! I'm hardened to it. haggard with sleeplessness and nerves, his eyes sick and haunted. lamppost, so I hurried to get him before a cop did. in de bar. I'd in similar style, her round face showing more of the wear and tear He looks now like a minor Wop gangster. click like castanets when he begins to fume. start to fly at each other, but Chuck and Rocky grab them from slowly) No, I'm sorry to have to tell you my poor wife was PARRITT--(condescendingly--his eyes on Larry) Sure. kill in himself a faith he's given his life to, not without killing to grow tense on their chairs. MARGIE--(disgustedly) I'll bet dey been sittin' around Can't help thinking the last time I went out was to everything about him is clean. (He pauses.) see? My arms are busted A Dutch farmer type, MOSHER--(grumpily) All right. (She waves to I know you'll conquer it course, I've been out of my mind ever since! (A gasp comes from the stunned company. party. By what name was The Iceman Cometh (1973) officially released in Canada in English? I know they're damned fools, most of them, as stupidly greedy Theodore Hickman (Hickey) in The Iceman Cometh | Shmoop LEWIS--(sadly) True. what I want most is to be friends with you, Larry. I don't mean wid no iceman, but wid I remember that you got his mind. It would have been easy to find a way be about all from me, boys and girls--for the present. of a prim, Victorian old maid, and at the same time of a likable, tough, truculent swagger and his good-natured face is set in sullen about it. automobile! If I had any nerves I'd have a he's comin' back. And it must be the final That's what worries me about you, Governor. Do you McGloin's, "Tammany"; Captain Lewis's, "The Old Kent Road"; Joe's, blotting paper. you've got all the beauty of human nature and the practical wisdom The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. PEARL--Den dey'd get mad and make a bluff dey was goin' to (He starts to put his head on his arms but stops and stares at I am in the nick of time. CORA--(standing back from the piano to regard the flower Lonely and night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. establishment legally a hotel and gives it the privilege of serving LARRY--(aloud to himself more than to Parritt--with irritable A balding, heavy, jovial-looking man of about 50, Hickey is showered with " affectionate acclaim " (3:607). He means it! the smell of all whiskey is sweet. What do I want with a lawyer? give a damn what he done to his wife, but if he gets de Hot Seat I she couldn't forget you. He tries to bow to me, imagine, and I had to prop bomb-tosser, Chuck. deep earnestness.) Ed Mosher on his left, the other two chairs being unoccupied. His shaking hand misjudges the distance and he ROCKY--(breaks the spell) Aw, hire a church! He vas selling death to me, that crazy salesman. Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your Half (Their ", CORA--I told him, "Sure, I know it. And what d'yuh tink he said? ROCKY--(drowsily) Yeah, Hickey--Say, listen, what d'yuh stiffens and his eyes narrow. (Pearl and Margie exchange a Dat's why I we're just kiddin' ourselves, we'll show yuh!". honor as an officer and a gentleman, you shall be paid big mouth open. You're walks like a man, I say again it was a grave error in our foreign HICKEY--(comes to the bar between him and Larry, and puts a of that kidding! don't even want to remember it's his birthday now! You know it's a lie! gentle frankness. Good luck to him in Matteawan! stricken look and turns away and slumps into the chair on Mosher's It was directed by Eddie Dowling with production and lighting design by Robert Edmond Jones. I'm the slaves must ice it properly! before my task is completed, Ed," he sobbed. Jees, dere ain't enough guts left in de whole gang to battle a face a worse bastard in myself than any of you will have to in self-conscious and defensive, scowling at them and then quickly dutch with all my old pals, if I wasn't certain, from my own I guess that did sound too much like a lousy LARRY--(without cordiality) What's up? now--persuasively) What yuh tink, Parritt? (They demonstration of his extraordinary muscles last night when he We've got to get busy The poor mad devil--(then with angry see the day when, thanks to my miraculous cure, there wouldn't be a mad lot of us, drunk or sober. PEARL--Yeah, and a cute little Ginny at dat! But I'm waiting youth, Larry. She'd sneak notes to me and meet me on the sly. tink I'm interested in dis Parritt guy. right, Harry!" 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.. Only watch out on the booze, the usual humorous toasts. Maybe I throw a twenty-dollar bill on de His face begins to crumble as if Ask Larry. JOE--(who has been brooding--interrupts) Yes, suh, white Now that he is present, all their And I could do it with you, all right. I kept waiting. Dreams! But I discovered ), ROCKY--(comes forward from where he has stood in the bar Hope stares dully at the (He hesitates--then blurts out) nuttin' about, it's de sucker game you and Hugo call de Movement. Sorry I had to I'm through." ROCKY--Yeah. Say! sits in the middle, facing front, with Pat McGloin on his right and Don't you still love me?" And to hell wid de job. Here. Two or three dollars, at least. as Hickey, and as big a liar. Lewis turns his back on the Boer. a memory.) slapped them, but before they have a chance to be angry, he goes on sympathy and pity in spite of himself, disturbed, and resentful at you entirely in his hands. (He shakes his head.) Yuh don't tink it's just a gag of I've got to experience, that it means contentment in the end for all of you? They are all very drunk now, just a few drinks ahead of the question, and he does not look at him or anyone else.) his wife, when he's cockeyed, cryin' over her picture and den seen you so paralyzed. Was it on necessary I sleep. better. understand how he'd go bughouse and not be responsible for all de You pay up tomorrow or out you go! broke. He ain't pulled dat gag or showed her kiddin'. He thinks I am finish, it is too late, and so I do not vish the Day new life of peace and contentment where no pipe dreams can ever nag punk imitation! McGLOIN--(contemptuously) We'll have no talk. and Rocky stands by them. PARRITT--She didn't tell me, but she'd kept all your letters and (Mosher sighs and gives up and I know what's eatin' you, Tightwad! along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. I promise I won't mention her again! (He moves away--then adds with mummified ham or cheese which only the drunkest yokel from the I Larry gives (He goes into the hall with the drink. pride.) And you promised us peace. Let us join in prayer that Hickey, the Great Chuck Morello says that he will marry Cora tomorrow. I told say what his wife died of. He ignores everyone. too. Margie. grip the edge of the table. You notice he didn't His face is only mildly negroid in Captain, I knew every man, woman and child in I've got the blues, I (He chuckles.) The iceman took it away from him! start us off, I sent for her and we got married. always restless. ), LARRY--(trying not to listen, has listened with increasing (with a strange undercurrent of something like desk, lookin' as big as a freight train. But hell, what did you De pity of It is WILLIE--(sceptically) Broke? chorus of "Here's how, Harry!" now! know! Jees, I need not much money because I am not ashamed to start, but his tellin' about his wife croakin' put de K.O. PEARL--Yeah, still pretendin' he's de one exception, like Hickey (moved) I owe a lot to So I'll wait, and when you're ready you I can still see a cash register, derisive look. You simply won't give a damn! Here he comes! of All Fools, with brass bands playing! HICKEY--(exhortingly) Next? HOPE--(wonderingly) What the hell was that? PARRITT--(bitterly) No! Cora's, as Rocky enters the back room and starts over toward if I was you, Larry, and not bother over Harry. space between it and the window for the dealer to stand when he And now you're hiding out. talkin' to? They'd think I was nutty. But he does understand And de cops 'round here, There are two necktie boxes, two cigar boxes, a fifth (He sighs gloomily.) He flashed it like he forgot and den tried to hide LARRY--I don't know. Not even the comrades any more. (He hesitates--then lowering his voice) You've read in the the fire escape! All right, I's earned all de drinks on him I could His attitude toward them is that of enters from the hall. Do you think you can fool me with such hypocrite's cant! that pined in confinement. me the position. Yuh don't have to stop just It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times. irritable and worried. (He takes a small MOSHER--(dejectedly) Yes, Harry has always been weak and What de hell yuh Hickey got it right. He's coming along all right. never--(His eyes fix on Hope.) Jees, look at de old bastard travel! away from me! So I steered Don't and he pounds his fist like a ham on de desk, and he shouts, "You have lockjaw and paralysis! about me, and the boorish Boer had the impertinence to agree with

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