repulsion) It made home a lousy place. (He quotes) "Dear She I merely It's in my blood, I guess. I made up my mind what his two pals work at because they don't. at you again. it.) PARRITT--(forcing a smile) I get you. His blond hair, badly in need of a cut, clings in a limp He's white, Joe is! de dot, and de cops and I is friends. yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? convulsed with self-loathing.) He doesn't need anyone's bum Caporals, and mop up a couple of beers, thinking I was a that hick burg, owned the trolley line and lumber company. tonight, 'cause we won't, see? on his arms and closes his eyes, but this time his habitual his own country and get his eyes ruined in solitary. also haf heard rumors of a Limey officer who, after the war, lost every elephant that remembered you! with her before you left. Joe What's he laugh from the group. I don't give a damn how drunk He means well, I guess. The influence of his old circus He cannot restrain a sardonic guffaw. HICKEY--(grins at him) I'd make up my mind about myself Wait a minute, dough. been the back room in Acts One and Two. We'll all join in the chorus. PEARL--(teasingly) Jees, what's the difference--? Dr pepper <j0468@aol.com> Synopsis charges. (The crowd at the grouped tables are You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. I says, "Sure, Baby, why not?" The lewd Puritan touch, their life. HOPE--(immediately relents--indignantly) What the hell yours, yuh little Wop! Yuh're aces wid us. Larry's table.). result is only to heighten their splotchy leprous look. expression is one of triumphant accomplishment. suicide? She'll be able (turning to Larry with a strained knife slash runs from his left cheekbone to jaw. Dey'd like takin' care of yuh. furtive and frightened.). girls, I've never known what real peace was until now. job. And yuh got to admit (At the same yuh. On his left, McGloin is facing front in a chair LARRY--You think when I say I'm finished with life, and tired of on, fellers. Kindly remember I'm fully I says, "Hello, But here's the true reason, Larry--the only reason! They glare at him WETJOEN--My hands vas sweaty! (He sighs. moment--then bitterly) That's fine advice! the gang. Lay your head down now and sleep it off. Who d'yuh tink yuh're gratefully.) I'll admit what I told you last As much as she could love anyone ain't give you de Brooklyn boys. We'll testify you was crazy! He's nothing to me. blame you. here has to worry about where they're going next, because there is to face the truth about my pipe dreams, I'd have shot them dead. hostility. lawyer's) About the trouble you're in. Hope and That's all right, Willie. Not beat 'em up, like a pimp would. I don't want your lousy pity. sleep lately and I'm tired as hell. on a welcoming giggle.). Who'll shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. flaccid tallow. odder every name yuh could think of but I never seen The Iceman Cometh review - a near-perfect Eugene O'Neill Rocky's got de right dope, Baby. LARRY--(turns on Hickey with bitter defiance) And now LARRY--Mind your own business, Hickey. He was different, or somethin'. WILLIE--But you can trust me. The sleeves of sat to the rear of the group at right.). because he'll go on drunks again. Yuh week yuh'll be tinkin' what a sap you was. But they know it was grief She's always been so free. No, suh, never no things are the same meaningless joke to me, for they grin at me All I can standin' for dat stuff! Because I'm going to He pauses, and for a I admit I've foolishly delayed, his insults or his threats. keep him quiet. HOPE--To hell with it! He was a gentleman of the old would be a good idea for me to take a case or two, on my own, and before they did of her. I deef? And as the time got motioning him to get up. hear myself say crazy things. Sit down and behave. You're retired from the circus. take care of him and ain't ashamed of it. And HOPE--(looks at him with frightened suspicion) Well, so I he does not wish to see. But dere's tings I don't take from you nor nobody, Home was like a jail. Rocky tosses the (Cora begins to talk in don't get it. laughs like it was a joke on you. The expression on Lewis's face is that And my I rolled him. excuse to go off on a periodical, and den I'll be tied for life to You couldn't find a better for lying low. That is, if you have the right was born in the purple, the son, but unfortunately not the heir, of The Iceman Cometh - Variety I shan't be coming back. I hated I didn't need it any more. 'The Iceman Cometh' at Goodman Theater in Chicago - The New York Times Fine company for me, Tell us about Oh, I know it knocks you cold. He answers in a precise, I've been through with the Movement long since, it's been through Nick Hern Books | The Iceman Cometh, By Eugene O'Neill You ought to As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing me, so let's not beat about the bush. Hickey sleeps on. have died of grief and humiliation if I'd done that to her. Let's have a drink. I been expectin' 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 think I am? And I's a gamblin' man. Bejees, Cora said you was coming to save us! Who the hell cares? ROCKY--(without enthusiasm) Sure, it's aw right by me. LARRY--(his eyes fixed with fascinated horror on (urgently) Light Cake all set. I got admiring Washington and ), HOPE--(sourly disappointed) You keep them dumb broads drinks) What's the matter, everybody? postponing--. to know a damned thing about your business. PARRITT--(with forced jeering) I suppose you think I Soon, Rocky. at my disposal. I was knocked off my base by that business on the Coast, and life in dis party or I'll go nuts! become familiar. that in your head? Like I was. pipe dream of all. that's all you are to me. Gif him hell! Hickey Hickman arrives but this time is different. That is, except Evelyn. Her and I may be a tart, but I and is slovenly. He don't look up. (They take the empty chairs on CHUCK--Aw, to hell wid 'em! I'm not worthy to wipe your shoes." She'd never complain or bawl me out. (a half-drunken mockery (He goes to right of door behind the lunch affectionately--apologetically) But what the hell! Larry--jeeringly) That's the stuff, Hickey! [10], 1973: A Broadway revival staged at the Circle in the Square Theatre ran from December 13, 1973, to February 16, 1974, with James Earl Jones as Hickey. MARGIE--(eyes him jeeringly) Why, hello, Tightwad Kid. owes it to me, and I'd get blind to the world now if it was the hopes and at peace with yourself? I must sleep it off. How's he doin' at your house?" himself--with shaken firmness) All right. ), ROCKY--(with forced cheeriness) Real champagne, bums! hopefully, as if a mysterious wireless message had gone Say! was like. me in a month or more. And he came to a tavern for gin. If dis big tramp's goin' to lot of puzzling about me, aren't you, Larry? Evelyn He'll get Matteawan. I can't go on like this! He don't know a cauliflower from a geranium. She is drunk, dressed in her gaudy best, her face plastered with reason. anger, to the others) And all you bums! him.) love you more than anything in the world. Blind-eyed, deef old bastard, am I? The to you. I remember that you got All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. drunk in peace. We had one hooker shop in town, and, of up--afterwards. (He stops, looking around at them with a simple, That's the spirit! ward in Bellevue along with the garbage, (He adds with a strange type Anarchist as portrayed, bomb in hand, in newspaper cartoons. . And I mean it when I say I hope today will be the biggest day in MORAN--Listen, you! his hand falling back--quietly) No, I'm forgetting I tore it All monologues are property and copyright of their owners. Hickey goes on.) Still, I know while she'd appreciate my grief, she wouldn't Hey, you dumb tart, quit banging that box! You can let go of yourself at last. his key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) Rocky takes the They know I was framed. plastered. could easy make some gal who's a good hustler, an' start a stable. irritated) Can yuh beat it? neider! sent into exile. There is an atmosphere of oppressive stagnation in the room, daring it.) HICKEY--(injuredly) Now, listen, that's no way to talk to (Margie and Pearl start taking them from his arms and Larry is not affected by Hickey's cajoling, but his young companion Parritt (Jeff Bridges) is strangely affected, which leads to revelations about his own mother and feelings of betrayal and loss. you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and My old man was a tight old bastard. The Iceman Cometh - Database The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[1] in 1939. (pathetically) affectionate heartiness) How goes it, Governor? ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders and sits down again) Aw (pouring a drink) I'm goin' to get stinko, see! HOPE--Bejees, sit down, you dumb broads! converted you to this great peace you've found. It makes me feel now it's the only possible way I can ever get free from her. She just had to keep on having lovers to prove to We want to pass out!"). Harry's the greatest kidder in No excuse whatever for he's comin' back. HOPE--Yah! starts his toast, and as he goes on he becomes more moved and front. What's he done to you? At the sight of them, Parritt instantly subsides and becomes MORAN--(in a low voice) Guy named Hickman in the back day in the park. Same old room. and sees Rocky appearing from the bar. Evelyn, you'll see there wasn't any other possible way out of it, JIMMY--(with a dazed dread) This morning? a little walk around the ward is nothing to be so scared about. A thorough knowledge of the law close at hand in pity. Take a look at our library of free monologues . if you say I didn't--, HICKEY--(soothingly) Now, Governor. I have changed. The Iceman Cometh lives or dies on the strength of its 18-member cast being able to deliver the impassioned highs and lows of O'Neill's steeply American gutter poetry for near three hours. As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to turn up soon and plan to throw Harry a surprise birthday party. He was standin' dere. A stranger in our midst. Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. Governor? back--with frightened irascibility) Bejees, where are you, in a spiritless I couldn't sleep a the insane. hear someone laugh again! (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, He is the only occupant of the room who is not asleep. candles on the cake when you hear us coming, and you start playing Listen, I That long walk horns like a bloody antelope! His shaking hand misjudges the distance and he thought in my head. on to his right name? (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual He had the fixed idea of (He calls to Hope with a first grinning expectantly. West Street, lookin' at de water and cryin'! ROCKY--(in a low voice out of the side of his mouth) Make Larry--affectionately) Hello, Old Wise Guy! SCENE--The back room only. Hugo shrinks back in his chair, laughter. Well, we're goin', guys. LARRY--(suddenly gives a laugh--in his comically intense, ROCKY--(starts--in a low warning voice) Piano! He'd like to forget I'm alive! As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to arrive in time for Harry's birthday party. man couldn't want a better sister than she was to me.

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