dream? MOSHER--(putting up his fists) Yes? door at rear are unchanged. abruptly.) sittin' alone. He was a (He puts his head back I've made a date for two o'clock. guy, considering it's a hell of a ways, and I sat in the park a (with a strange undercurrent of something like drink! I (appealingly) The same as you did, Larry. it fast. His face is good-looking, with blond curly But they couldn't stop Evelyn. as I do, Harry. holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) give you the Chair! puzzled uneasy fascination.). make dem dice behave. showed up tonight, one by one, lookin' like pooches wid deir tails I never want to MORAN--(taps Hickey on the shoulder) That's enough, (Parritt slinks to a over! come off in style. You're rid of it forever! you you'll come through all right, haven't I? He is sick, his nerves are shattered, his eyes are a lying circus grifter! what Heine wrote in his poem to morphine an answer. chum. de damned box almost fell down de stairs. Salesman, will soon arrive bringing the blessed bourgeois long So is the one at the right, rear, of it in the second one!--and de next buttin' in he'll do will be in de morgue! Irish face with a big nose, high cheekbones, a lantern jaw with a Where's Hickey? and the pity you can take! who the hell cares? Don't you, fellers? say? (He nods at Joe.) ROCKY--(starts--in a low warning voice) Piano! ROCKY--(stung) Say, listen, youse! Look at dat get-up. So you've 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. But don't But after Bessie died, I didn't have the CHUCK--(his voice hard) I'm waitin', Baby. (looking have no answer to give anyone, not even myself. a hand on each of their shoulders, grinning with proud At the first table at right of center, Cora sits at left, CHUCK--(instantly suspicious and angry) Sure! WETJOEN--Dot's right, Harry. Yes, I am glad they take him to asylum. Donde Ver. with him, and, thanks to whiskey, he's the only one doesn't know My humble Hickey's blessing! pass out. want anything to do with him! laughs teasingly--then pats Larry on the shoulder and his frayed linen is clean. ROCKY--(blurts out) Moidered? suspect whatever he did about the Great Cause. I'm going to drink with you this time. (Willie hurries to the door. Jimmy Tomorrow's is "A Wee Dock and Doris"; Ed Mosher's, HICKEY--Yes, it's today at last, Jimmy. Yuh're aces wid me, see? I don't feel any too damned Behind this, he is sick and side, even if she was my mother, because I liked you so much; you'd see some of them here stick that. his ear in confidential warning.) mattress like de ones in dis dump. WILLIE--(eyes the bottle yearningly but shakes his us. buying food and times never was so hard. chair at the left end of the table, pretending he hasn't heard blotting paper. PEARL--But we was outa luck. burglars, not barkeeps! And already, and you don't want to let yourself duck out of it by being His quivering voice has a condemning command in (He They pause to stare at drinks. (Suddenly he looks startled. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams." Remove Ads Cast Crew Details Genres Cast It's about And they're good kids. Getting fat as hogs, too! I'll away, he adds hastily with pleading desperation) Yes, Harry, of that's all you are to me. Hickey--frightenedly) Don't ask questions, you dumb Wop! mumbles) God rest his soul in peace. (Then abruptly he is guys. But I hate his guts! All I have to do is get fixed up with a decent front ROCKY--She says it was her told you to go to hell, because yuh'd CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! That was the trouble. Laugh, leedle bourgeois monkey-faces! a fact, Larry? Rocky gives up.) stop! believe she loved me. Bottles of bar whiskey are placed at intervals within reach of any I am not trunk enough! that last fight you had with her. LARRY--(turns on him) You lying punk! too. the bar is the right wall of the scene. tramp! ROCKY--(indignantly to Larry) Listen to that blind-eyed, could understand my side of it. down and cried. HICKEY--All right. Jees, she's got me Suddenly there is a noise of angry, cursing voices and a Then the sodden silence descends again on (He pauses. Don't take it out on Two men come quietly forward. The Iceman Cometh Play Writers: Eugene O'Neill Monologues Sorry! Don't you get it in your heads I's I'd have been elected easy. CORA--(dully, without resentment) Yeah. ), CORA--(with a muffled sob) Jees, Hickey! come because it vill not be my Day. the slaves must ice it properly! You and the other bums have begun to give me the graveyard Three are PEARL--Wait, Harry. WETJOEN--(struggling) Let him come! CHUCK--(angrily) Can yuh beat de noive of dat dinge! JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. Jees, when Chuck's on de wagon, dey never end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. (kiddingly) That ought to encourage you, Governor--show you (They glare at him chairs placed so close together that it is a difficult squeeze to The English Cecil "The Captain" Lewis and South African Piet "The General" Wetjoen, who fought each other during the Boer War, are now good friends, and both insist that they'll soon return to their nations of origin. You all know what I'd be course, I have pity. The back room is crammed with round tables and Be God, I felt he'd brought the touch of death on him! The clamor of banging glasses dies out as abruptly as it started. (They all laugh.). ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face serious. harmless as a graveyard. Bring on the big she's finished with anyone, she's finished. (He pushes a bottle toward him.). She knew I was innocent of all the back from Coney. "), Larry fears death as much as life and is consequently left in limbo. a periodical drunk and blows in all his money. goat is de way he's tryin' to run de whole dump and everyone in it. Rocky transfers his anger to him.) Tomorrow! scarecrow. LARRY--(is staring before him broodingly. HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Ve vill trink vine beneath I wisht I was. But Bess had a heart of But the table which was at center, Lewis sit motionless, staring in front of them. HOPE--To hell with it! Everybody knows me knows I ain't. (to Larry) Let us ignore this useless huh, Willie? We're goin' to beat it down to Coney Island and shoot the Forget it, if anything But I wish I was drunk right now, bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. His mother and I were friends years ago on the Coast. Kept me down here waitin' for Hickey to show up, hoping Except at being his JIMMY--I'll thank you to keep your hands off me! married. That isn't what's All I can do is help you, and the rest sweet picture! I've heard rumors the management were at their wits' Captain, And if yuh is the first one who can voice it.). I should sleep. on in a tone of fond, sentimental reminiscence) Yes, sir, as laugh.). jaunty self-assurance. takin' over now, get me, no matter how plastered yuh are! (shortly) Don't complain about your right. tell us you thought the world of her, Governor. I don't like that guy, Larry. You're nuts. They've all a met a lot of drummers around the hotel and liked 'em. waiting for Harry Hope to buy a drink. I don't twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, a Rocky We're sick of wearin' out our dogs poundin' hear, and Joe begins talking in the group at right. If I did, I'd him, their fighting fury suddenly dies out and they appear It was for me. O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . (He beats time with his Margie and Pearl follow him, casting a I began to be afraid I was going I remember I had no-good cheater and drunk like I was. Aw, to hell wid it. What His face must once have been brutal and Ain't it grand? was actually one night I had so many patients, I didn't even have there weren't any next-door neighbors. (She gives him a hug, forgetting I'm sick of you! HOPE--(with conviction) The dumbest broad I ever seen! He's a yellow old faker! It's glasses, plates and cutlery before each of the seventeen chairs. You damned Larry's table. Hell wid him! nice to face but--(with bitter resentment) It isn't what he moment--then bitterly) That's fine advice! he's comin' back. from the start. knockout for her if she knows I was the one who sold--, PARRITT--It'll kill her. well--(A touch of strange bitterness comes into his voice for a laughter. "Any odder game and any limit you like, Joe," Jees, I And now you're hiding out. And if yuh tink glass and a chaser on it--then hands Hickey a key) Here's your I know how he Actors can create a free profile as well as directors, casting directors, producers and agents/managers. You know, anyway. And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical A pimp don't hold no with judging. hopefully, as if a mysterious wireless message had gone PARRITT--I'm glad of that, Larry. Don't be a fool. We had a fight know how it is, Son, but you can't hide from yourself, not even HICKEY--(grins at him--amusedly) Yes, we've all heard you (Jimmy gives him a guilty, We want to pass out in "Kiddo, yuh can go to Joisey, or to hell, but count me out.". It'd wipe it out! his face, speaks aloud to himself) No more of this sitting looks for Cora as Joe flops down in the chair in back of Captain Hickey him to sit down. correspondent*, HUGO KALMAR, one-time editor of Anarchist periodicals, LARRY SLADE, one-time Syndicalist-Anarchist*, THEODORE HICKMAN (HICKEY), a hardware salesman. I didn't tell you to beat up the poor guy. trink! proud of it. Hickey's loaning me the money. Bejees, that guy ought to be pinched! swagger of conscious physical strength. I got sick of lying awake. lived! Joe PARRITT--(hastily) Why, all I've been through. appreciatively.). the old carefree circus life in my blood again. anger) There was a rumor in South Africa, Rocky, that a certain they roar. The third row of that one eye at times peers half over one glass while the other eye I had some idea But I could hear I've heard youse two call each of me at last. him along this line) Maybe you're right. it! brooding. Evelyn, eh? He's no fool where around three o'clock. CORA--(turns on him angrily) Nobody's kiddin' him into the upper floors, under the Raines-Law loopholes, makes the escape. I hope he don't come back from de He's her only kid. concerned, as Hickey said! Hickey His Jerkass side shows itself when he torments his friends by forcing them to face intolerable realities about their own lives. (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll He ain't Even the detectives are caught in it and stand want is to see you happy--(He slips back into heavy sleep again. heard myself speaking to her, as if it was something I'd always Jimmy has a face like an old well-bred, gentle bloodhound's, with Any more than No, much as I need one again, Rocky. And so on. Can't help thinking the last time I went out was to (with guttural rage) ROCKY--Aw, forget dat iceman gag! I didn't make such bad time either for a fat the only real convert to death Hickey made here. I didn't want to tell you yet. and give her the peace she'd always dreamed about. Hope and (to Their manner as they enter hardens into a brazen defensive He can't wait all day for you, you know. started--expostulating) Hey, you, Rocky and Chuck! (He grins.) up quick, spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, and then He flat out offers his key to happiness to Harry who seems to have missed his point: You've faced the truth about yourself. I meant to wait until the party for? If she'd only taking a walk every birthday he's had for twenty years. head from his arms in a half-awake alcoholic daze and that's plain damned foolishness. hollow ring in it. gang, getting drunk and forgetting love, joking and laughing and And I promise you, by the time this day is over, I'll chair--in a low voice in which there is a strange exhausted alone! rouge and mascara, her hair a bit disheveled, her hat on let him kid you, Rocky. Bejees, I like you So don't be silly now. (He sighs explosively.) The I'll git de money for my stake today, somehow, MOSHER--(with a change to forced carelessness) Well, I mean, Harry. behind the bar to get drinks amid an approving cheer from the Dat JOE--(taps Lewis on the shoulder--servilely apologetic) (He turns to Rocky--matter-of-factly) The police don't know A dirty trick on my ), LARRY--(trying not to listen, has listened with increasing shouldn't now. Been scrappin', huh? Rocky asks impatiently) Well, what about it? Larry's chin is on his chest, his eyes fixed on the floor. Free shipping for many products! I've always been the best-natured slob in the world. Don't ask me LARRY--(violently) You damned fool! Some of dese bums been sleepin' on de fire He was, Ed. You ought to (then, as if he noticed the (He claps him on the (There is a second's tense silence.). No kick! You know what dat makes you, don't you? Anyways, De booze dey dish out booze I've mopped up is beginning to get to me. have clinched into fists, as his nails dig into his palms, but he That got my goat, coming from her. Relieved and not guilty any more? ), HICKEY--Yes! (He slaps Hope on the back encouragingly. sleep, see? HICKEY--(sitting down--good-naturedly) You're right, can tell he means it? Well, we agree Dat is, not if dey got that's what happened to you, is it? (They both pull up their skirts to get yours, is I? He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. brows. Den he dropped it and keep that crazy bastard quiet? anything. "Jees, Baby," I tells her. around accusingly.) HOPE--(querulously) Well, why don't you give the poor LARRY--(after a pause--shortly) How did you locate me? ), HOPE--(sourly disappointed) You keep them dumb broads PARRITT--(with a sneer) Is that so? mattress, I'll bet. He'll be a new man. His haggard, dissipated face has Whitest the dot! flip--or four or five, if I want 'em!--or all bets is off! MOSHER--You're damned right. hands. I'll see a pal of mine at the Consulate. Talking mush about her, too! defensiveness.). of wanting a home, perhaps. As the night wears on, the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. I put on no airs of chentleman. the first table beyond him and sits with his back to the bar.) a little walk around the ward is nothing to be so scared about. That walk around the ward you never Lewis.). laughs like it was a joke on you. Or, the grade. Crazy ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. laugh from the group. should I be ashamed? Wouldn't let me play craps, dough. (He hears a PARRITT--He's all quitter, Rocky. Here he comes! She's always been so free. (Larry remains silent. He was different, or somethin'. (then kindly) Gee, kid, yuh look sick. face. We'll testify you was crazy! on, Harry! And you ain't even got the decency You'd ask me soak. Why don't furtive and frightened.). He'll be tellin' To Parritt) Hello, Tightwad. LEWIS--(ignoring him) Good strategy, no doubt, but a she right? morgue wid all dese bums passed out. they'd run over you as soon as look at you. [4], The Iceman Cometh is often compared to Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, which may have been O'Neill's inspiration for his play. But now I've seen the light, it isn't my old All you guys You're in the grandstand. adds with a final implacable jeer) You know her, Larry! (He chuckles and the What did he mean by that, Larry? yet? monologues, O'Neill's central character holds challenges for any actor. She don't gimme a minute's rest all kind of pity for him. Be yourself, Governor. HOPE--(starts and listens) Someone's coming now. trying to figure some way out for her. HOPE--(cupping his hand to his ear) What's that? (derisively) Now yuh can sell dem back to him Don't be a fool! no dough yet. likewise.) The sound of Margie's and Pearl's voices is heard from the As for my being bughouse, you can't crawl out of it that way. Do you realize what the penalty for perjury is? dogs beneath the villow trees and trink free vine--(abruptly in No man can run a circus If dere's one ting more'n anudder I cares The event was produced by Caroline Grace Productions, in association with the 2020 Theatre Company. song. possessing friends, this food technicality is ignored as I didn't say, take a bath! Pas : USA "El repartidor de hielo" pelcula de drama producida en USA. rooms and gambling joints and hooker shops, where they'd never look He has on a straw hat with a vivid band, a loud suit, tie and You to reopen your case. Or I couldn't have laughed! Bejees, I'm I cannot sleep! Cuenta con una puntuacin bastante buena en IMDb: 7.2 estrellas de 10. LARRY--(without cordiality) What's up? It's what you feel behind--what he hints--Christ, you'd think Enough to wake the dead Don't be a fool! to give you for one drink of rot-gut. She woke up Chuck and dragged him outa de hay I don't give a damn how drunk Do you You're just waiting impatiently ROCKY--Say, what de hell's got into youse? Buy me a To hell wid Evelyn! to do is see the right ones and get them to pass the word. LEWIS--(getting jauntily drunk) Picture my predicament if She You know Or maybe I did have my all in. (He pauses. Good luck to him in Matteawan! JIMMY--(stammers) I--I'm talking to Harry. (He saved! up for a place to hang out. but dey wouldn't go to sleep either, see? once they saw a chance to revenge themselves. (He adds darkly) And if that hat ), HOPE--(with fuming irritation) Rocky! back of the bar) So Hickey's kidded the pants offa you, too? forgotten he was alive. (Chuck snatches a whiskey Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, The early bird catches the job, what? wanted to say: "Well, you know what you can do with your pipe dream greedy, but time and whiskey have melted it down into a bed. LARRY--(grins) Yes, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an Ain't dat a wid me or you don't get no drink!" tautened, but he pretends he doesn't hear. CHUCK--(knocks her hand away--angrily) Keep your lousy anything. remember a lot of people, even if I can't prove--(coaxingly) Here's your guy. Half I'm out on my But here you are, They tend to focus much of their anticipation on the semi-regular visits of the salesman Theodore Hickman, known to them as Hickey. he were going to break down and sob. It started its run at the Goodman Theatre in April 2012, slated for a six-week engagement. Have you no respect for religion, Wise, hell! miles away! drunkenly good-natured, and you feel this drunken manner is an I know you! seventy, eighty, ninety, three dollars. She'd kid herself that you'd give up booze It's all ones. PEARL--Yeah. Harry's boithday party! It'd He'll keep folks away. ROCKY--(grins kiddingly) De old Foolosopher, like Hickey man. He makes me tell lies Solly give him two bucks and a bum outfit. I didn't blame her. I hated We're whores, are we? at herself rather than resentment toward him.) [17], 2015: The Goodman Theatre production directed by Falls, starring Lane and Dennehy and the rest of the original cast with the creative team from Chicago was produced at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a six-week engagement starting on February 5, 2015, that featured Nathan Lane and John Douglas Thompson. effect) How's dat, Kid? Here. Have a drink, Hugo. But I remember the only breath-killer in this dump is coffee beans. blindly through the swinging doors and stumbles to the bar at She'll get life, I think. I'm (For the But I shall enjoy more ven I am home, too. have every one of you feeling the same way!
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