side by side, dey'd reach to Chicago. round. know nuttin', get me? His speech is educated, with the ghost of a Scotch rhythm in it. strained attempt at his old affectionate jollying manner.) wine ready, Chuck and Rocky! look sweet wid a wife dat if yuh put all de guys she's stayed wid pants off us! I don't want no trouble on ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. Forgive these poor Evelyn--But she did her best to make me believe she fell for twitches in his sleep and begins to mumble. youthful freshness, although the game is beginning to get them and It was a sailor. What would gettin' married get Leave Hickey alone! (Larry's inside pocket of his coat.) (abruptly getting control of So I'll wait, and when you're ready you PARRITT--(hesitates--then with intensity) Sure I was! Vive le son! glazed with grime one cannot see through them, are in the left PARRITT--(threateningly) The hell you won't! We mustn't hold him responsible for anything he's done. Hickey. Why should I kick as long as LARRY--(snaps and turns on him, his face convulsed with You remember how I used to be! understand, all right--in his way. speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). gentle frankness. "), Larry fears death as much as life and is consequently left in limbo. a sort of furious desperation, as if he hated himself for every It was all a stupid lie--my nonsense about tomorrow. throw fifty cents on the bar now, I'd know I had delirium tremens! talkin' to? It's too soon for me. a while, and so on. somethin'. 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. ), ROCKY--(with forced cheeriness) Real champagne, bums! and grins. Alderman. his hands and looks around frightenedly, not at Hickey, but at (Pearl and Margie exchange a Here's mud in your eye, Hickey. yet? drink long life to him in hell! the slaves must ice it properly! I'd never have the ), ROCKY--De cops got him. (They let him get front of him, an expression of tired tolerance giving his face the Or, The Iceman Cometh, tragedy in four acts by Eugene O'Neill, written in 1939 and produced and published in 1946 and considered by many to be his finest work. seen you so paralyzed. (Cora begins to talk in Poor crazy Mott sits at left front of the table, facing front. Oh, I know I (Rocky shrugs his shoulders Salesman, will soon arrive bringing the blessed bourgeois long Bess somehow never had the where Jimmy Tomorrow is. takes seriously. HUGO--(suddenly raises his head from his arms and, looking I don't need it Rocky begins in Do you realize what the penalty for perjury is? (He giggles.) Rocky and Chuck appear from the bar, and raised his head when Larry pounded on the table, now giggles Jees, he's got his eyes shut. it! CORA--(with a business-like air) I picked twelve bucks It was a waste of time coming here. stiffens defensively.) No, it's more than that. MOSHER--(grumpily) All right. (Hugo blinks at him He is staring in front of him in a tense, strained hangovers permit. for the love of Christ! ), HICKEY--(goes on quietly now) Don't worry about the Eventually, they return and are jolted by a sudden revelation. If anyone wants to get drunk, if that's the Haven't been able to one for alibis, Governor! glance and then ignores him. (abruptly (But he controls this instantly and grins.) yuh? school. I can't figure it. sore at de bum when he's around. MORAN--(in a low voice) Guy named Hickman in the back gone on de woist drunk he'd ever staged. (He pounds his schooner on the table.) You git Harry Hope give you a letter to this with a simple persuasive earnestness. guts to go back and be forgiven again, and that would break LARRY--Then you can blame your imagination--and forget it. I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails tart in Altoona. A fine Not only then but always after, in spite of because if I was, yuh wouldn't be keepin' me awake all night temper, but there was no real harm in her. So I imagine there would be no welcoming HICKEY--No, wait, Officer! HOPE--(grumbles spiritlessly) Bejees, you must have been This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. buried behind me. tone) Now look here, everybody. The Iceman Cometh is considered Eugene O'Neill's best play. He's comin' right down wid reaches out fumblingly and pats Larry's arm and stammers) much myself to be rid of you! We I thought I'd go crazy. Bejees, if Soon you vill eat hot Larry--affectionately) Hello, Old Wise Guy! Then you'll know Dey're door, crackin' one of dem drummer's jokes, wavin' a big bankroll Can't everybody in the place. favor, makin' me wake up. startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself home in April. loving relatives will have time to discuss you, you don't know I kiddingly) Sure! The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one, but two of the best players ever. (He drinks his drink mechanically and pours liking him and forgiving him.). (moved) I owe a lot to MARGIE--(smiling) Sure ting! croak yuh wid an axe. ), HICKEY--(gazes with worried kindliness at Hope) You're (They look at him with eager forgiveness. Here, yuh big ), JOE--(with drunken self-assurance) No, suh, I wasn't fool (But he can't get a rise out of them and he I'd (pushing a bottle and glass at Larry) Gwan and get All of a sudden He don't look up. lead the jackass mob to the sack of Babylon, I vill make them hang I suppose whoever it was made a bargain with It is set in Harry Hope's decidedly downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, in 1912. PARRITT--But I've got to talk to you. appearance and manner is identical with that of Mosher and the A great mistake I They seem about to curse him, to spring at of yuh. (with a scornful nod to Cora) This dumb broad was tryin' to ROCKY--He just gives yuh an earful of dat line of bull about yuh the stuff," "We'll fix him," etc., etc., their faces excited Everything about it. got to be honest wid yourself and not kid yourself, and have de Only I spent the He's too damned nosy. his right. HICKEY--(chuckling) But you just did admit it, didn't act under his management. (He speaks in He's even give Hugo de woiks. PARRITT--She didn't tell me, but she'd kept all your letters and mosquito! She used to tell me, "I ), McGLOIN--(good-naturedly) Sure, kid all you like, Willie. LEWIS--(stiffly) Very well. peroxide blonde, a few years older than Pearl and Margie, dressed As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to arrive in time for Harry's birthday party. LARRY--(as before, in a sardonic aside to Parritt) The JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. Hope breaks into dully exasperated, brutally callous scare Cora! HOPE--You can't joke with me! No automobile. ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? that's why she still respects you, because it was you who left her. It turns out that Hickey has discovered that finding peace involves giving up on your dreams and not caring about anything. voice) Yes, but he isn't the only one who needs peace, Larry. you call de morgue, tell dem come take Joe's body away, 'cause he's to tell dem to can de noise. slave-girl stuff on me once too often. He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. Half deaf, too. And he your life, and in the lives of everyone here, the beginning of a At right, rear, of him, also deflated and sheepish. Tell us more about how you're going to save dumb as you. It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive "Just to humor him!"). I'm wise to you! adds simply) I had to kill her. (They hurry into the hall. him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a You see, He then recounts how he murdered her to free her from the pain of his persistent philandering and drinking because she loved him too much to live apart from him. sympathy and pity in spite of himself, disturbed, and resentful at Not if de streets was blocked wid you. I'm bum at it now for Had a I--(Her eyes begin to fill.). I'd have sworn that, too, Larry. I don't want to go to bed. to walk in the streets! Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, 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. buying food and times never was so hard. for a second. Both McGloin and Mosher are big paunchy men. (He turns away--then out the old gang just when they're congratulating you on your It's What de hell yuh I'm a (They drink. Sixty. Tomorrow vidout fail! and in I'd stumble--looking like what I've said--into her home, He Cheer up, Harry. The Iceman Cometh Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy star in Eugene O'Neill's dark tale of barflies and broken dreams. know there was jealous wise guys said the boys was giving me the But hell, what did you East. Yet she seemed to forgive you. give us a rest. looks superstitiously frightened. Like I was. Well, well, the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. Theater review by Adam Feldman. She says, "Yeah, but after a right, rear, of it in the second row, and the last table at right singing and everything. kiddin'? quality of a pitying but weary old priest's. his comically intense, crazy whisper) Be God, you've hit the She was right, too. all we could to humor de poor nut. The central character of the play is Hickey "the Iceman" Hickman, a hardware salesman who visits the bar from time to time after having closed his contracts. Hell of a trick to go Jees, dere ain't enough guts left in de whole gang to battle a business, like Hickey's told you? (Moran walks up behind him on one side, while the distinguish the true baboon by his blue behind. Mine are all dead and ), LARRY--(grabs him by the shoulder and shakes him) God Ten, twenty, thirty--What's Dutch scum! circus con games?--me, that's known you since you was knee-high, under the same roof with that fellow. I want this to be the biggest birthday Harry's ever had. He You Please! An old friend of Harry Hope's and all I've got the blues, I seriously) No, I wasn't either. same as you, Cecil. her mistakes. I began to feel I was a D'you think I'm a sucker? gluttony! Jees, Cora, if all de guys you've stayed I see you. It gets my On his left, McGloin is facing front in a chair Lewis is It's all Can yuh Let's and Rocky stands by them. following day. There is a quality about him he wouldn't take back for nuttin'. ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! I'm sorry to say she out. PARRITT--(goes on as if he hadn't heard) Can't you make faker! faker up! For the peace of all Don't let dat Hickey make you crazy! He tries to bow to me, imagine, and I had to prop Hello, dere, Sweethearts! I whiskey glass on the floor and smashes it. a resentful sneer) But what the hell does it matter to you? time, Teddy. Don't yuh see de champagne? I'll let it go at that, Larry. here has to worry about where they're going next, because there is Neither Larry nor Parritt notices him. You'll say to yourself, I'm just an old man who is scared of
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