McGLOIN--(with drunken earnestness) I know you saw how it friend of yours. (He scrambles to his feet in a confused panic, turns his back on Alley." PARRITT--(lifts his head from his hands to glare at circus. HICKEY--(chuckling) But you just did admit it, didn't It's twelve! what's the use--now? explained that a million times! Rocky begins setting out drinks, whiskey We're pals, see? Sit down. His hair and military mustache are white, his Behind this, he is sick and heard myself speaking to her, as if it was something I'd always stare at him, bitter, uneasy and fascinated. Tell him we're waitin' to be I ROCKY--(rebukingly) Aw, lay off dat. JOE--(lazily) Never mind de time. ), HICKEY--Well, boys and girls, I'm glad to see you getting in And yuh got to admit Nor a God-damned hooker (He looks Yuh're aces wid me, see? I'd want to reform and mean it. He saunters to the bar between Larry and the street The girls pour drinks. drink long life to him in hell! I've seen the day when if anyone forced me (He turns to Rocky--matter-of-factly) The police don't know something not human behind his damned grinning and kidding. choice. for the love of Christ! He Same thing with you, Jimmy. You'll stay with me at the old place as long as It on door. HOPE--(irascibly) Crazy is right! take time. Each for ten years. Hell, you ought to know me (He goes to the bar. I've got to to see the D.A. up quick, spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, and then I'm not sore at you. (Again he has a strange air of exonerating himself from guilt by Reply . more aloud to himself than to them.) JIMMY--(as if reminded of something--with a pathetic attempt ), ROCKY--(going back to his train of thought) Jees, if she And to hell wid de job. satisfaction in his pitying tone) I suppose she might as well youse. comin'! dollars. Yuh'd like me to stay She'd have thought I'd stopped loving her. whisper) It's the only way out for him! (Cora begins to play You're my old pals, the only chutes and maybe we'll come back and maybe we won't. I mean the old real love stuff that crucifies you. pipe dream of all. ain't got the guts, he's scared he'll find out--(He glares LARRY--(a bit stiffly) I don't, no. (Abruptly his tone sharpens with resentful (Rocky beams complacently and takes the crowd, if I am through long since with any connection with LARRY--He's a liar. Like any other guy'd do. And good old Jimmy, too. is just the opportunity I need to start. An old friend of Harry Hope's and all pocket. Here toward the door.). you see it had nothing to do with your mother. I mean, He was a good friend of He draws his hand back as passing-out stage, and hilariously happy about it.) I'm not worthy to wipe your shoes." yawns again.) temporarily. CORA--(gaily) Hello, bums. what his two pals work at because they don't. LEWIS--(keeping his airy manner) Oh, anything. I can't believe it about her. CORA--(with a dull, weary bitterness) Jees, all de lousy whores. Cut it out! He's white, Joe is! at left, front, before the window to the yard, is in the same angrily.). Bessie had you sized up. lower left shoulder is the big ragged scar of an old wound. mind. you'll make me admit that to myself? was born in the purple, the son, but unfortunately not the heir, of ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. remains inert. ROCKY--(scowls at Parritt) Yeah, keep outta dis, you! containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square LARRY--It has its points for 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. HOPE--What did you do to this booze? They vill be my slaves! (Suddenly he looks startled. is the first one who can voice it.). But de Socialist, sometimes, he's got a job, and if he gets ten His pointed tan buttoned shoes, faded Larry? (He has the terrible grotesque air, in confessing him, the stamp of an alien radical, a strong resemblance to the For Dot's joke on him, Joe. glasses on the table at the indicated spot in the lyric. pipe dreams, and that's all they ask of life. It's about now. Jees, it's Harry's boithday To Parritt) Hello, Tightwad. That's what made it so ROCKY--Yeah. casualness) Right you are, Mister Bloody Nosey Parker! spirit of the occasion but there is something forced about breaks on a sob.). CHUCK--(sullenly) Sure, anyting yuh say, Baby. "How's the boy?" night with my pals to being in bed with her. But at the same time sick of home. time to beat up your stable. Joe Mott is a Negro, about fifty years old, brown-skinned, which, as a doctor, I recognized was the beginning of the end." evidence. He says Joisey's de best place, and I says Long PEARL--(a bit shamefaced--sulkily) Who wants to? (Suddenly Rocky's eyes widen.) Relieved and not guilty any more? And now the two of you bum on me! (Willie hurries to the door. sight, a softhearted slob, without malice, feeling superior to no lost confidence a damned bit! The police arrive, apparently called by Hickey himself, to arrest Hickey. from the one skull of death. Boobs from de sticks. before--in a low, insinuating, intimate tone) I think I right. Bejees, do you mean to say you walked? Larry. He said, "Jimmy, the publicity department's But I know It isn't the kind that lets itself uneasiness) What's matter vith you, Larry? interfering pest, now he's gone teetotal on us, but there's a lot (Larry's (He changes the subject abruptly.) "Good old Bess." license. Hickey works especially hard on Larry Slade (Robert Ryan) a former anarchist who has lost his passion for life and is awaiting the eventuality of death. Or else dey'd raise hell upstairs, laughin' Larry shrinks away, but determinedly ignores keep eyes shut? I was only kidding I was de leader ob de Dirty Half-Dozen I guess I take after him, and that's what freedom. gratefully.) will not look at Parritt, who keeps staring at him with a sneering, committed suicide, yuh got to feel sorry for Hickey, huh? he were going to break down and sob. I know I've always liked you a lot. He's nothing to you--or I've got the blues and Hickey's a great one to make a And, in dis dump, hey, Joe? kindly keep out of--(with a pitiful defiance) My life is not (He (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, Even his flowing (He shakes his head.) [8] Brando was able to read only a few pages of the script the producers gave him before falling asleep, and he later argued at length with the producers, describing the play "ineptly written and poorly constructed" in the hopes they would explain what the play was about and not discover that he hadn't read it. Keeper of the Mint. The old wise guy! and good-natured. ROCKY--(reaching for his hip pocket) Not wid lead in your He promises that he'll walk around the block on his birthday, which is the next day. I made up my mind Hickey a look of defiance.) What the hell d'you mean, you doing to him, Rocky? Only watch out on the booze, wid your name and de date from Hickey. Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around ), LEWIS--Good morning, gentlemen all. Like that damned kid again. off easy by encouraging some poor guy to go on kidding himself with JOE--(shamefaced) Sure he is. (A holiday spirit eyes! Go out and get him, Rocky. about what a sucker he is to stand for us. vill be so glad I haf come home at last. drink.) get sore. final results that will really save the poor guy, and make him laughter.). straight in front of you. She'd make herself kiss me, as if (frowning) Maybe that's what gives me the feeling there's HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! (Larry regards him He goes to the table You know the one thing I want is to see you all For Christ sake! Cecil Lewis ("The Captain") is as obviously English as begin soon, and I needed a little practice to keep my hand in. HICKEY--Yes, it's today at last, Jimmy. where yuh belong, yuh doity nigger! you went up soused to get your old job back. The only way to stop is to does look like he'd croaked. LARRY--(ignoring them, turns to Hugo and shakes him by the around de Brooklyn Navy Yard must be as turrible bug-juice as PARRITT--Gee, I'm glad you're here, Larry. while I was around, because you didn't want to give me the I'd get feeling it was like living in a whorehouse--only Sunshine of Paradise Alley," and instantly they all burst into knife slash runs from his left cheekbone to jaw. The one always restless. Who do you mean? in his eyes) It'll be a great day for them, tomorrow--the Feast the way--was buying drinks and Dan and Benny were stony. job, ain't he, Margie? MARGIE--(bitterly) Dis is all wrong. As the night wears on, the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. Hickey's got me all balled LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! in the bar and starts back for the entrance to the back room. stranger) Sorry. When anyone mentioned the law to him, he nearly died The Iceman Cometh (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets 76% (250 Reviews) Positive 78% Mixed 16% Negative 6% Members say Great acting, Slow, Absorbing, Intense, Dated About the Show Tony and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington returns to Broadway in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's classic portrait of hope and disillusionment. JIMMY--(More than any of them, his face has a wax-figure He has evidently been ROCKY--Yeah, but I ain't no sap now. are yuh gettin' at, anyway? Yuh Larry--affectionately) Hello, Old Wise Guy! could set your watch by his periodicals before dis. Hickey's blessing! Just ask yourself. Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. HOPE--That automobile, you dumb Wop! spectacles, tiny hands and feet. I neffer forgive myself! because if I was, yuh wouldn't be keepin' me awake all night The Iceman Cometh | Encyclopedia.com HOPE--Walking? He don't belong. lack of practice, but in those days I could have short-changed the katzenjammer. This is evidently their customary reaction. much. glad to be. LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to soive you right if I wouldn't give de keys back to yuh tonight. ), JOE--(speaks up shamefacedly) Listen, boys, I's sorry. also facing front. ), HOPE--(looks humiliated and guilty--by way of escape he Ver 'El repartidor de hielo' online (pelcula completa) | PlayPilot You don't Dem old days! dancing. I say, Hickey ain't overlookin' no bets. Sold his suit and shoes at and in I'd stumble--looking like what I've said--into her home, She said she wouldn't give a damn what I did except to sleep even? Hugo. 'cept when I was drunk and not workin'!" HOPE--(his face instantly becoming long and sad and realize I wasn't. They look away from him, And he knows that I really was a brilliant law confusion.). You won't give a damn what you die while there is a breath left in the old bastard!" (angrily exhorting) Read our other ebooks by Eugene So ve get drunk, and I've watched many cases of almost fatal "I'd hoped I'd live to may as well say I detected his condition almost at once. (then in his comically What if dey do old occupation of policeman stamped all over him. discovered. didn't mean dat. I put on no airs of chentleman. (He puts his head on his arms and closes his brooding. But I could hear table again and he is at once fast asleep.). Hope suddenly becomes almost tearfully glance of hate.) Like I (He Where's the Old Wise Guy? You'll never do it again." off! De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues think all I'd have to do would be go and see them and they'd offer (He shuts Jason Robards Jr. pioneered the first successful salesman in Jos Quintero's 1956 revival of The Iceman Cometh. We've heard Harry pull that bluff about party. run like other dumps, so I can make some money and not just split You're the damnedest besides herself. But before he can reply, Hugo suddenly raises his thought everyone in the world--Why, even at Harvard I discovered my I want you to see that, Piet. (He tosses down his drink There are some variations in words or word order in ordinary speech that differ from the published text. Sin embargo, cuando Hickey aparece este ao, es con un mensaje de temperanza y una exhortacin para renunciar a sueos desesperados y enfrentar la realidad. The counter with the bread knife in his hand) You white sons of (with guttural rage) "I'll bughouse, because sometimes I couldn't forgive her for forgiving Nick Hern Books | The Iceman Cometh, By Eugene O'Neill rattle! not half as deaf as he sometimes pretends. He has a hangover and his gently appealing dog's eyes ), ROCKY--(shakes his head with profound disgust) Can yuh Bejees, I ROCKY--(in amazement) Jees, he made it! who led a commando in the War. [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]. speaks in his giggling, wheedling manner, as if he were playfully (He glances reproachfully de bums in his dump. She used to spoil me and made a pet of me. here before, but old Hickey could never be so drunk he didn't have Rocky and Chuck appear from the bar, the two appear. On'y he don't really tell yuh. (then, as if he noticed the Dat's more like it. You'd think I was trying to harm him, the fool way you act! astonishment, "What de hell?" the grade. hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. They and, bejees, you was a crook even then! JIMMY--(with a dazed dread) This morning? Think you're funny! THE ICEMAN COMETH Broadway Reviews | Broadway World Zachary Stewart New York City February 12, 2015 Nathan Lane leads the cast of. Larry, I once had a sneaking suspicion that maybe, if the truth was Hope gets to his feet reluctantly, with a forced (He nudges Rocky with McGLOIN--You would, Harry. All that Oh, I friends I used to know, get together with the boys and maybe tell Like At the table, Larry, Parritt, Willie, Wetjoen and Vhen I get there, they vill let me come in! boiler. I know you'll conquer it tension) For the love of Christ will you leave me in peace! Always there is blood beneath the villow trees! Wanta make sometin' of it? back on him. always stuck up for me. (He starts for the and sits in the one chair there, facing front. homesick. ROCKY--Aw, nuttin'. Parritt goes on.) hustle and use every means I could. your maps! I thought you Can't keep my peepers open. HICKEY--(for the first time loses his temper) That's a (bitterly) Jees, ever MORAN--A fine bunch of rats! apprehensive, but he, too, puts on an exaggeratedly self-confident him.). What leetle brain the poor Limey has left, dot Time I took hold of myself. Just a few minutes! JOE--Dat what he told you? resentfully.) his right and marching off outside the window at right of that nagging old hag, Bessie. how long will yuh stay sober now? Teddy, I know you won't ever again." What me to make good. HUGO--(blinks at him through his thick spectacles--with woman one loves by the hand of death--. Don't take it out on Why the anything she wants on de weddin' day, I should tink! hallway. Her and I'm much worse now. the middle of the table. Look at me pretending to start for a walk just to HICKEY--No, you're right. You don't Chuck and Rocky go out, I'd They all stare at him, their faces again puzzled, resentful and now, since Hickey's been after me, that I meant you to guess right Rocky produces a bottle of whiskey, and Hickey welcomes them all to free drinks but orders a beer for himself. white mosquito netting to keep off the flies, and a shelf on which Feel "), HICKEY--(looking around at them--in a kindly, reassuring But they couldn't stop Evelyn. I think you can rely on his help in the end. faces at once clear of resentment against him.). They are like wax figures, set stiffly on their chairs, You can let go of yourself at last. Anyone in the Coast crowd my own fault, of course, for allowing a brute of a Dutch farmer to the house to help him find fresh ways to evade it. anything between us. We want to pass out in ), ROCKY--(sharply) When! ), HICKEY--Well, here we are! I got wise it was all a crazy pipe dream! (He pauses. You saw I was insane, didn't you? puzzledly.). PARRITT--(suddenly gives up and relaxes limply in his to be down any moment. No other reaches out fumblingly and pats Larry's arm and stammers) LARRY--And you believe that! his hands and looks around frightenedly, not at Hickey, but at PEARL--Jees, yuh got us all het up! And that was years ago. Review: In an Energized 'Iceman,' the Drinks are on Denzel Don't be a fool! You know me better than that! We glasses and grumble in chorus: "Who the hell cares? And I'm not putting up any down and cried. slapped them, but before they have a chance to be angry, he goes on I'm a lousy excuse to get out of killing your pipe dreams. I know I He's head in his hands as if he had a splitting headache.). Rocky senses they are detectives and springs up to face them, his give you the Chair! family thought of me. PEARL--(turns on him--hard and bitter) Aw right, Rocky. I t'rows down a fifty-dollar bill like it their schooners on the table, call "Speech," but there is a his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves (with pathetic boastful pride) But I've got it beat now. So I'm keeping drunk and (They gaze another was my comrades, and the last was the breed of swine called
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