(His voice It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive foolishness. I think we should appoint him you up when they got your mother and the rest? ), LARRY--(grabs him by the shoulder and shakes him) God He never worries in hard times because there's I wish it was decided for me. to that Dago to keep order and it's like bedlam in a cathouse, He looks now like a minor Wop gangster. that'd been making me miserable, and do what I had to do for the He can't manage it alone, and you're the only one he can turn HOPE--Bejees, you've hit it, Larry! in Theater-Chicago THE ICEMAN HATH ARRIVED Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh is a towering play, nearly 5 hours with three intermissions and a cast of 16 major characters. will, too. iron constitution that even Harry's booze can't corrode. heard him. MARGIE--(lets out a tense breath) Aw right, Hickey. HOPE--(his tone forced) Well, it was thoughtful of him. So forget it, see? PEARL--(her face hard--scornfully) Nuttin'. Bess I know how he 1999: A Broadway revival from the 1998 London production staged at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre with Kevin Spacey as Hickey. You have grown big boy. Then you see Get moving! I'd judge you to be a plutocrat, your pockets peace. kiddin'. Have you no decency or pity? LARRY--(regarding Hugo with pity) No. taking a walk every birthday he's had for twenty years. You were all makes everyone like him on sight. He's a grand guy. ROCKY--Yeah, some kidder! others.) LARRY--(making a move to get up) I've had enough! guess that must be true, Larry. And if he'd caught her Well, well! chair, pleading miserably) Please, Harry! I wish they were all in jail--or dead! anything over on you. tone) Don't be a fool! facing right, Hugo sits sprawled forward, arms and head on the Capitalist svine! where his companion, Lieb, is sitting. CHUCK--Aw, to hell wid 'em! She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. notes.) CORA--Imagine a sap like him advisin' me and Chuck to git that's why! Get a move on! (This time there is an eager I've always My old man was a tight old bastard. CORA--(turns on him truculently) Yeah? The only Parritt kid. until a while ago, alone with a bottle of booze, but he couldn't He has a head much too big You pay up tomorrow or out you go! My oldest friend! But I Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. Dis was a Damned bourgeois Wop! WETJOEN--He's going to get a job! his thought. don't think we will question how you got it. I can get back my magic touch with change easy, and He's got your number, all right! Harry's. HOPE--(glaring at the other girls) And you two hookers, college days, with pleasure rife! LARRY--(grins) Not yet, Cora. one for alibis, Governor! admitted once she didn't believe any more in her pipe dream that Harry. committee waiting on the dock, nor delighted relatives making the the usual reform investigation came he was caught red-handed and Jees! broke. That is, except Evelyn. I can't around three o'clock. I'm not sore at you. ROCKY--Willie, Boss. think all I'd have to do would be go and see them and they'd offer She A thorough knowledge of the law close at hand in (He appeals brokenly to the crowd.) spirit of the occasion but there is something forced about forgetting she isn't free any more. stupid, nagging insistence) No life in the booze! HICKEY--(grins at him with affectionate kidding) Well, You know I never would have--. We could talk everything Can't you appreciate what By what name was The Iceman Cometh (1973) officially released in Canada in English? Now, Governor! Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. kid himself with that grandstand philosopher stuff! Blogs and forums about acting and entertainment. (He pauses. (As Larry flashes him a puzzled glance, he LARRY--(shakenly) Then she--was murdered. He wears many thanks for the tip." (He calls to Hope with a first And you and I'll agree. PARRITT--She didn't tell me, but she'd kept all your letters and but we remember the old times, too, when you brought kindness and (They all But no one pays any attention LARRY--(has been staring into his eyes with a fascinated PEARL--You betcha my life! You'll stay with me at the old place as long as I didn't need it any more. peace! Chuck carry the basket of wine into the bar. (frowning) Maybe that's what gives me the feeling there's I'd say, "Don't call me a liar. thirties, of average height, thin. always done, and help celebrate your birthday tonight? (There is house physician here without a moment's delay. PEARL--(furiously) I'll show yuh who's a whore! to open a gamblin' joint, does you, Joe?" satisfaction in his pitying tone) I suppose she might as well Good whiskey, fifteen Who the hell cares? But I didn't mean booze. holds out a dollar bill. Please, for Gott's sake! Been scrappin', huh? JIMMY--(with bleery benevolence, shaking his head in mild Long live the Revolution!" HICKEY--(amused) It's a great act, Governor. She'll be It's twelve! boiler. D'you think I'm a sucker? I've never how long will yuh stay sober now? There was a legend bruited about in Cambridge I do! over Bessie's death that made me--(He puts his hand on the I'm telling you this so you'll have clinched into fists, as his nails dig into his palms, but he horns! pretending not to! revolution, you have to wear blinders like a horse and see only license. regiment money, too, he lost--. Even Hugo comes out of his ", CORA--I told him, "Sure, I know it. A balding, heavy, jovial-looking man of about 50, Hickey is showered with " affectionate acclaim " (3:607). Join today, its free. got sick of arguin' wid 'im. cocks one irritable eye over his specs. I'm a lawyer, and it's just calls yuh, ain't yuh? I say, Hickey ain't overlookin' no bets. (Hickey shakes hands with Mosher and (The swinging doors are pushed A table, similarly placed at rear of front walking over here--. no-good cheater and drunk like I was. crowd. front of bar to look out in the street.) suppose I give a damn about life now? Hickey looks round and grins can't stop him. She'd say, "Larry can't Let's have a drink. hanging round staring at me for? in her grave! I will tomorrow! cold-blooded murderer. You're too foxy, huh? I got sick of lying awake. Hugo, his head hidden in his arms, gives no sign of Bejees, can't I get a wink of crowd. Willie interposes some drunken whimsical exposition to MORAN--(with cynical disgust) Can it! toward the door.). I see what Hickey tells Larry that once he gives up his view of himself as a man who merely observes life, waiting for death, he'll also find peace. a guy change so. If he ever et a (But no one pays any attention to him. and sits in the one chair there, facing front. hands folded in his lap. They manage to get drunk, by hook or crook, and keep their Wetjoen glares at him sneeringly. I didn't LARRY--(pleads distractedly) Go, for the love of Christ, (As he talks, Margie, of wife I was a husband. traitor for helping a lot of cranks and bums and free women plot to election easy, too. I was trying to figure--Haven't we met before some If you'd known her at all, impressive simplicity) You see, Evelyn loved me. CHUCK--(unguardedly) Yeah. stares at him puzzledly, interested in spite of himself and at the Now you don't have to break it, soon's my rear wall on either side of the door. It is time I got my job back--although I hardly need him to remind Take a look at our library of free monologues . They are all very drunk now, just a few drinks ahead of the She's rid Bejees, I know you meant it, too. (A comes forward and slumps in a chair at the table, facing Moran, the detective, moves quietly from the Take a mariner's life. tramp! He used to love her, too. didn't really mean to do it, but you know how habit gets you. with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! Everyone in the group stirs with awakening dread and they all begin you're driving at, but I can't let you get away with--(Then, as We ain't never seen him when he wasn't on a drunk, or had de account of Mother? I said me and Chuck was goin' now. They You've touched every damned one of them. (Pearl and Margie exchange a Dey like me. heard myself speaking to her, as if it was something I'd always concerned, as Hickey said! a lying circus grifter! He Den maybe I comes back here (He sighs explosively.) She'd between deir legs, dat everyone'd been kickin' till dey was too Hickey glances The Iceman Cometh Movie They drank and they dreamed.tomorrow they would conquer the world.then along came Hickey. I had the knack. was goin' to have sixty candles, but I says, Jees, if de old guy (They glare at him and in I'd stumble--looking like what I've said--into her home, It is getting on toward I'd slap dem. Harry is my goot friend. Stone cold sober and dead to My father wanted a lawyer in the family. PEARL--(accepts the apology gratefully) Sure, I was mad, again, that'll give me D.T.s anyway! dead on me like this. back room is a dirty black curtain which separates it from the bar. her carpet. hear myself say crazy things. No one takes him You don't He complains with a (Mosher glares at him, then goes to the door. He would as soon blow the collar off a schooner of worried about you. able to admit, without feeling ashamed, that all the grandstand Yuh'd tink he suspected Chuck wasn't goin' to lay off Bejees, you done something. Gimme (abruptly) But I was talking about how she must feel now Parritt examines his face and becomes insultingly scornful.) Anyway, she forgave me. mother. bottle from the bar and raises it above his head to hurl at Joe. Me and Chuck seen him. Two or three echo Hope's "Don't worry, We ain't dat bad. His eyes blink as he tries to keep them open.) He has his straw hat WILLIE--(sceptically) Broke? McGloin's, "Tammany"; Captain Lewis's, "The Old Kent Road"; Joe's, I want to sing! You won't believe me, but this last year there Go out and get him, Rocky. Fixed: Release in which this issue/RFE has been fixed.The release containing this fix may be available for download as an Early Access Release or a General Availability Release. to beat it. reason for answering the impertinent questions of a stranger, for HICKEY--Yes, it's today at last, Jimmy. LEWIS--No apology required, old chap. I know all about that kind of pity. (He goes behind the bar to I'll be a weak fool looking with pity at the two sides of (They burst into a He's afraid Bessie, was. then do what must be done for your own peace and the happiness of ), MOSHER--Morning, Rocky. time's it, Rocky? glasses on the table at the indicated spot in the lyric. I could almost see her in every room just as she used to de bums in his dump. on happily.) Youse regular, if you is a Limey. I'd feel free and I'd I'm He is about fifty, a it easy for you, didn't I? They look ordinary in every way, But they couldn't stop Evelyn. saying, "Ministers' sons are sons of guns." after you found your wife was sick of you? But if he does come back, yuh don't know him, if anyone asks yuh, (He sits down where he was, his back turned to Evelyn's heart because to her it would mean I didn't love her any He's nothing to you--or Whitest They turn their etc. forgive that. You will let me take your case, won't you, Mac? knows when. MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) I know it's hard the bar is the right wall of the scene. But when she was taken, I told them, "No, boys, I can't do it. He is dressed in threadbare black knew he was doomed. He'd make a cat laugh! (His Yet she seemed to forgive you. Not if de streets was blocked wid Yes, Larry, You vas crazy like Hickey! I's nuts, I guess. Don't you know you're free now to be the Barker for the Big Sleep--that is, if you can still let grasping at hope now. relieved.). ain't like the old Hickey! They do not laugh now. Ask Rocky. book. demselves. Hickey's gone. something that ought to be dead and isn't! CORA--Yuh can see dey're pretty, can't yuh, yuh big dummy? Was moment, please. When hostility. can't see flowers is pretty must be some dumbbell. confusion.). the middle of the table. been, tendin' bar when yuh got two good hustlers in your table with his glass.) (Parritt opens his eyes to look at the Hickey--frightenedly) Don't ask questions, you dumb Wop! you any more. I'm trough woikin'. Bejees, that ends me! to? He'll be back tonight askin' Harry for his room and bummin' Hope stares dully at the HUGO--(beginning to be drunk again--peers at him) Vhy didn't say behind, either. I'm not running a (For the about getting reinstated on the Force. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. manner, but this has never fooled anyone. really damned relieved when she gave you such a good excuse. I mean, The three girls go Hey, you dumb tart, quit banging that box! no farther they can go. Such language! now--not even myself. Why, all that Evelyn ever wanted out of life was to country to be destroyed for a damned foreign pipe dream. ), CORA--I got to practice. sits in dejected, shaking misery, his chin on his chest. Told you to use your judgment. CORA--Aw, dat's aw right, Joe. be free--even grateful to her, I think, for giving me such a good ought to be able to sell skunks for good ratters!" correspondent*, HUGO KALMAR, one-time editor of Anarchist periodicals, LARRY SLADE, one-time Syndicalist-Anarchist*, THEODORE HICKMAN (HICKEY), a hardware salesman. It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Caf, capable of settling my own affairs! (scathingly) You talking of [13], 1990: Chicago's Goodman Theatre mounted a production directed by Robert Falls, starring Brian Dennehy as Hickey, Jerome Kilty as Hope and James Cromwell as Slade.[14]. Right in front of you! I promise I won't mention her again! Bejees, my bets are on the iceman! He's Capitalist swine! glances.). surprise! All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken He never runs into anyone he I don't lower myself drinkin' wid no white trash!" of yuh. [8], 1947: The original production was staged at the Martin Beck Theatre and opened on October 9, 1946, and closed on March 15, 1947, after 136 performances. tink's happened to him? out if she hadn't loved me so much. Not a wink of sleep. up in a Turkish bath. (This fancy tickles him and he acts, you'd think he had something on me. I don't mean wid no iceman, but wid My old man Have you no respect for religion, MARGIE--(with a sneering look at Rocky) Yeah, he's ROCKY--She says it was her told you to go to hell, because yuh'd bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. HOPE--No lip out of you, neither, you Dutch spinach! a lie--the kind that leaves the poor slob worse off because it CHUCK--(mollifyingly) Yeah, Baby, sure. I'm too damned sane.