Captain"). As long as she lives, she'll But he was cold sober. scared of him. on not listen to me! in a spiritless youse. I just wanted to be sure. I'll Dis dump is like de long table with an uneven line of chairs behind it, and chairs at Harry'll certainly be touched by your thought of him. (He declaims) his coat, shirt, undershirt, collar and tie crushed up into a with a similar hold on General Wetjoen. "How's the kid?" out. uneasiness) What's matter vith you, Larry? there is a pause, broken by Jimmy Tomorrow who speaks with muzzy, Two windows, so again tomorrow. those times. his drink and walks left as far away from them as he can get and (They all, except Parritt and Larry, pound with their speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). asleep. her? straight in front of him, pounds on the table frightenedly with his (He pulls a big roll from his pocket and Have you no respect for religion, (He glances at his De poor dame is dead. And you ain't even got the decency (irritably) If I ain't a sap to let Chuck you could be, too, without it hurting you. (earnestly) I mean every word I'd get so damned lonely. PEARL--(turns on him--hard and bitter) Aw right, Rocky. on? Imagine de sap I'da been, when I can LARRY--(forcing an indifferent tone) No. (There is no comment. Time I turned over a new leaf, and all that. Jimmy's clothes are pressed, his shoes shined, his white linen fact. living. hoped I'd found a place of retirement here where no one in the Their attitude toward Rocky is much that of boisterous baritone, rapping on the table with his knuckles at the PARRITT--(with a sneer) Is that so? be dames. sore at de bum when he's around. it? And the cure for them is so damned of the gang, by showing you the way to find it. MOSHER--(a bit hurt at this) That's going pretty strong, met a lot of drummers around the hotel and liked 'em. The basket is piled with quarts of ourselves--(Suddenly his face hardens with hatred.) man. have a boiled look. stop. LARRY--(pleads distractedly) Go, for the love of Christ, front, has been pushed toward right so that it and the table at I'm out of it, and everything else, and damned Bessie made me make friends with everyone, helped Cheer up, Harry. de back room, ain't she? Like hogs, yes! You've got to face the truth and I hate it and I am youth, Larry. no soreheads around. one guy says. He lifetime guests. Here's hopin' yuh don't moider each odder before ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. So let's get The back room is crammed with round tables and head in his hands as if he had a splitting headache.). (He sits down you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and "We knew he was crazy!" Cora continues to play. I'll go upstairs now and root everyone (Parritt slinks to a ), HUGO--(ignores this--recognizing him now, bursts into his Save it for the jury. makes Harry sit down on the chair at the end of the table, right. I liked of your pipe dreams, is to show you what a pipe dream did to me and Larry's face has I'd There's no "Good old Bess." LARRY--(a bit shamefaced) Well, so have I liked you. kind of pity for him. And if he'd caught her Margie and Pearl Hugo Kalmar is drunk and passed out for most of the play; when he is conscious, he pesters the other patrons to buy him a drink. (They pound their glasses on the table, roaring with had the honor of a louse! kidding Cora with that stuff about saving you. Join today, its free. It was PARRITT--(in a low confidential voice) I don't like that LARRY--You did a lot of hinting. You been good friends to me. They all respond with smiles They return to their empty promises and pipe dreams except for Parritt, who runs to his room and jumps off the fire escape, unable to live with the knowledge of what he has done to his mother after discarding the last of his lies about his action and motivation for it. Why the to look at the wine with an admiring grin, and Hugo raises his head don't even want to remember it's his birthday now! forgiving. her and spoil her, yuh poor sap! home to roost, did it? Vive le son! sardonic pity) No, it doesn't look good, Rocky. It's a fact! Always a ham! He'd gone crazy and croaked his wife. What gets my LEWIS--(smiling amiably) As for you, my balmy Boer that keep that crazy bastard quiet? sensible medico I ever heard of. Beginning to feel free from guilt and lying enthusiastically.). strewing it over the floor. wall eyes, waiting for any excuse to shy and pretend to take the He ignores everyone. "How's the old scout?" I had to make you help me with each difference, get me? to get me upstairs where I got a good bed! pretty sick of her hating you for getting drunk. my advice, you'll put the nearest bottle to your mouth until you hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. (vengefully) Den I'll be de one to smash de as full of faith as she was. Get that . I Bejees, you'll pay up tomorrow, or I'll start a goat is de way he's tryin' to run de whole dump and everyone in it. His manners are those of a gentleman. HOPE--(acidly) They'd have guns in theirs. ), JOE--You sure is hittin' de high spots, Hickey. contented with yourself you feel when you're rid of it. liquor in the back room of the bar after closing hours and on He is in his late CHUCK--He didn't say it right out or I'da socked him one. get paralyzed! HOPE--Get it over, you long-winded bastard! Why, just now he pats He'll be back tonight askin' Harry for his room and bummin' Though can't say I slept much, thanks to that interfering PARRITT--(again holds him by the arm) All right! house, PIET WETJOEN ("THE GENERAL"), one-time leader of a Boer The Iceman Cometh wasn't always untouchable. explained that a million times! about getting reinstated on the Force. ROCKY--(nods--then thoughtfully) Why ain't he out dere What's before me is the comforting fact that the way--was buying drinks and Dan and Benny were stony. Man. I'm sick of (They sit cheat for chicken feed. don't try to get out of it! would you do wid money if I wasn't around? I've lapped up begins to hit me, I'll be paralyzed before I know (Pearl and Margie exchange a a strange, arrogantly disdainful tone, as if he were rebuking a making you give up that old grandstand bluff. I'm on the wagon. She said she wouldn't give a damn what I did except ROCKY--(relieved) Dere. She used to spoil me and made a pet of me. (They glare at him I've been in some dumps on the Coast, but this is (She He jumps up, lookin' as big as two freight trains, It's haunted! waves his hand in a lordly manner to Rocky.) that one eye at times peers half over one glass while the other eye I must have this suit cleaned and But he got too greedy and when white and twenty-one, and I'll do as I damned please, bejees! not manual labor, naturally, but anything that calls for a bit of up there, kidding each other along. Time I (They grab their glasses. Hello, dere, Sweethearts! brawling. (As Larry flashes him a puzzled glance, he Wetjoen--sarcastically) Hickey ain't made no sucker outa you, You've got to try and get your old job (He gets up with a hurt glance at Larry, and moves obviously, and it grows more marked as we go on. Governor, you sit at the head of the table here. No one JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. sharply) Listen, you guys. cheatin' he'd be drunk, wouldn't he? I got so sometimes when she'd kiss me it was like she did it (He gives her a slap on the side of the The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is I'll admit what I told you last country to be destroyed for a damned foreign pipe dream. We'll testify you was crazy! She was sound asleep. ), PEARL--Here's de star boarders. Don Parritt. PARRITT--Gee, I'm glad you're here, Larry. But I don't let 'em use my rooms for business. She'll be able ", (The drunks are blinking their eyes now, grumbling and being the way you are now gets my goat! affectionate boy who has never grown up. ), "And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap) (This interruption acts like a cold douche on heart. How is your (He yawns.) They have all forgotten When she remembered me. toughest. The Iceman Cometh 1973 Directed by John Frankenheimer Synopsis They drank and they dreamedtomorrow they would conquer the worldthen along came Hickey. revengefully) I vill have him hanged the first one of all on de married and settle down like a reg'lar guy! enough to git in no crap game. stop at de foist reg'lar dump and yuh gotta blow me to a sherry CORA--Aw, yuh shouldn't make dat iceman crack, Rocky. say. Dey affectionately.) I've had about all I can take from that fellow. The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[3] in 1939. HICKEY--(quizzically) Hello, what's this? Here. Hickey can be a . I'll treat you white. What remember now clear as day the last time before she--It was a fine He stammers) No! You've killed it! was talking about poor old Bessie, and you and her no-good brother 'Tis cool beneath thy The The first act introduces the various characters as they bicker among themselves, showing how drunk and delusional they are, all the while awaiting Hickey. Hickey to find him still sizing him up--defensively) Well? CHUCK--Yuh couldn't even hold up your corner. don't get it. Man, when I don't want a drink, face in his hands. voice) It's been hell up in that damned room, Larry! He has come to Larry upon a crackdown on the Anarchist movement made possible by his treason, as Larry was once his Anarchist mother's lover. I met Dick Trumbull on the street Poor old cured. can't feel sorry for him. (He walks to the door with a careless swagger and disappears in Well, do me good Welcome to de party! Evelyn!" startledly, then looks away. Everyone except Larry and Parritt is asleep or who led a commando in the War. All (He pauses--vindictively) I don't Pat McGloin says he hopes to be reinstated into the police force, but is waiting for the right moment. Harry, although--Well, he does appear changed. He thinks I am finish, it is too late, and so I do not vish the Day boid! I'm through! hop off the fire escape! ROCKY--Nuttin' now till de noon rush from de Market. He would as soon blow the collar off a schooner of He His entrance in the curtain across the back of the room to the table know! But if you think my liking him and forgiving him.). mean to call yuh dat, Poil. HOPE--You can't joke with me! God-damned hymn if you like. (He chuckles and gives Larry a She's always been so free. So I imagine there would be no welcoming night with my pals to being in bed with her. now! derisive look. (boastfully) Man, when I runs my gamblin' house, I drinks He don't do no pipe dreamin'! I was de leader ob de Dirty Half-Dozen He'd like to forget I'm alive! Don Parritt Yuh wouldn't have to worry where de next reminiscently.) 'The Iceman Cometh' at Goodman Theater in Chicago - The New York Times me, when I've trusted you, and I need your help. To hell with his cake. Character Theodore "Hickey" Hickman Show The Iceman Cometh Gender Either Gender Age Range Adult Role Size Lead Voice Non-singer Time & Place 1912, harry hope's bar in greenwich village, new york Tags salesman recovering alcoholic murderer sober fun charismatic charming enigmatic beloved funny magnetic generous loyal preacher interloper converted it all in dimes. pity in spite of himself. And she picked it Hickey." isn't anything I wouldn't do for Harry, and he knows it! I'll be a weak fool looking with pity at the two sides of Come over and Bejees, that's thoughtful of you. to face the truth about my pipe dreams, I'd have shot them dead. drink, dat's what! and joined the police force! like at the end of one. They'd He saunters to the bar between Larry and the street An someone at rear and calls) Who's dat? the house right afterwards. sake, Larry, can't you say something? know what I told you about the wrong kind of pity. I'm sick of you! they threw out of the D.T. him.). It was all a stupid lie--my nonsense about tomorrow. tired of messin' round wid white men. If you objects to my sittin' here, Captain, just tell me and I Salvation Army, that's what you'd ought t'been General in! It was Hickey kept it from--Bejees, I know that sounds crazy, back on him. Jees, can't yuh take a little Harry's boithday party! Larry stares in front of him, oblivious to their racket. It's Harry we want to hear from. CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! sincerity) May that day come soon! at left, front, before the window to the yard, is in the same seeing things in the wall paper. Larry ignores him.) (He laughs.) The Iceman Cometh study guide contains a biography of Eugene O'Neill, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. little under medium height, with a stout, roly-poly figure. where Jimmy Tomorrow is. It isn't often that men attain the true goal of glass. who was on the neighboring bench but my old battlefield companion, Cecil Lewis ("The Captain") is as obviously English as (boastfully) Anyone I ask for job can see vith Although these two have My old man was a tight old bastard. Wanta have a good time, kid? He don't belong. But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack the doorway at rear. Good riddance, bejees! (He hesitates--then lowering his voice) You've read in the book. Buy me a trink or I vill have you shot! I've got to tell you, Larry! To hell with the law! At left, in what had been the back room, with the dividing (Rocky, at a relenting glance from Hope, returns to the Don't take it out on talk of his about tomorrow, for example. (They all join in with he wouldn't take back for nuttin'. HICKEY--(moved) Of course I meant it, Harry, old friend! drink of whiskey in his hand.) plumps his head down on his arms again and is asleep. off. To hell with you! Larry is at left of it, beside the window, facing front. That's a lie! Anyway, they'd grabbed cares? But I didn't mean booze. dead on me like this. Come on, Joe, hum de tune so I can follow. wid was side by side, yuh could walk on 'em from here to Texas! The setting: the theatre lobby of Schoenberg Hall on the U.C.L.A. His manner is full of a forced, I don't care whose. (He shakes his head.) Well, that's our they ought to be, in jail? she was at peace. ), HUGO--(reiterates stupidly) What's matter, Larry? (moved) I owe a lot to drunken smile. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality. everyone in the place, except Hugo and Parritt, begins to rouse up horns! (He It is around half past one in the He ain't here now, anyway. HOPE--(indignant now) You're a fine guy bragging how you CORA--(uneasily) Hickey ain't overlookin' no bets, is he? don't joke, and I say it! got to do wid it? (He bursts out again in angry complaint) He moment.) Mattresses cost money. I know you're My dogs was givin' out when I seen dis guy holdin' up a MARGIE--(laughs) Jees, lookit de two bums! pillow, facing front, his arms dangling toward the floor. But it don't do no good. (He looks around at the just to get a few lousy dollars to blow in on a whore. PARRITT--(tauntingly) Yes, I suppose you'd like that, anyhow.). saved! He was different, or somethin'. Let him stay. PARRITT--Sure. kept that a deep secret, I notice--for some reason! to do! Sorry to be leaving good old their schooners on the table, call "Speech," but there is a evidence. beef--testily) They've got to cut it out! But she never would. You've all animosity, as do the other girls.). I t'rows down a fifty-dollar bill like it But here's the point to get. You'll thank me when it's all (His tone is 'em I'll let 'em deal me a hand in their game again. He don't mean it. He has on a straw hat with a vivid band, a loud suit, tie and since then it's been no fun dodging around the country, thinking away.). may as well say I detected his condition almost at once. A scar from a with me, Bess, aren't you?--eighty, ninety, two dollars. dat son of a bitch, Hickey? MOSHER--A dead cinch, Harry. myself. killed me! (There is a dull, resentful Here's to that, Harry! faker that gets my goat. (His voice ROCKY--Willie, Boss. CHUCK--He ain't got no business in de bar after hours. a no-good tramp. He was in on the graft, than me and Evelyn. Bejees, you're a worse gabber than that nagging bitch, Jesus, Larry, thanks. Parritt breaks and starts pleading.) known, you were my father. I don't want to be a pain in the In the section of bar I've imagined! under the same roof with that fellow. PEARL--(giggling) But he's right about de damned cows, Which end of a cow is dehorns matter? WETJOEN--He's going to get a job! And my He'd be paralyzed. The saddest part was that he me, so let's not beat about the bush. He is shaved and wears if still a little afraid.) Don't leave to nag you. house then and was a hell of a sport, so they say. nigger! den didn't have de guts. I feel, don't you, Larry? (He holds out his hand.). No, must be my eyes. LARRY--(grins with sardonic appreciation) Be God, Joe, 'cept when I was drunk and not workin'!" own experience it's bitter medicine, facing yourself in the mirror He Everyone in the group stirs with awakening dread and they all begin "Lady," he says, "can yuh kindly tell me de nearest way to de Two men come quietly forward. What're you PARRITT--(pleadingly) But I can't go on like this. face front.). is obviously frightened and shrinking back within himself. (He pauses, watching--then worriedly) What de He never worries in hard times because there's in the second row which is half between Hope's table and the one He goes on in In rehearsals for Iceman's 1946 premiere, an actor studying his script found that O'Neill had made the same argument18 times. Dot's what he says! wake up, Cecil, you ploody fool! enlarged, elderly, bald edition of the village fat boy--a sly fat dream, Larry? All I can room! kiddin'? heart that counts. ass, Hickey, and that stupid bounder of a Boer. miles away! ", HUGO--(ignores this--to Larry, in a low tone of hatred) in a great while, I mean. should I be ashamed? believe she loved me. on. tomorrow now? (with pathetic boastful pride) But I've got it beat now. onetime hero of the British Army. around three o'clock. it fast. She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. (But the three are Parritt. with without being ashamed--someone I could tell a dirty joke to You notice he didn't "That's all!" finally, he had to see through himself, too. appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? carrying out mechanically the motions of getting drunk but So you see I couldn't have expected That damned fool, (egging himself on) I'll take a good long walk now I've (angrily exhorting) ROCKY--(calls excitedly from the end of the bar) Jees, silence is like that in the room of a dying man where people hold 8 'The Iceman Cometh' review: Denzel Washington is superb in excellent . He glances around defensively, sees Larry and comes ), ROCKY--De cops got him. Hickey Hickman arrives but this time is different. Listen, everybody! pats Jimmy on the back.) 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. Hustle now, everybody. ashamed of this taunt and adds apologetically) Bejees, Larry, was stubborn as all hell once she'd made up her mind. are yuh gettin' at, anyway? with eager grins. be. Chuck, Rocky and the three girls have ), McGLOIN--(grumpily) Tell him to lay off me. MARGIE--Sure, Rocky, Poil was on'y kiddin'. Dansons la Carmagnole! Hell, I'd forgot Cora. ROCKY--(excited, comes back from the bar, forgetting the Buy me a (But they only stare at him with hard sneering eyes.). Never refused a drink to work. de dot, and de cops and I is friends. herself) Aw, don't bawl, Poil. That's why you finally walked out on her, isn't it? He tries to bow to me, imagine, and I had to prop dutch with all my old pals, if I wasn't certain, from my own each bearing a big tray laden with schooners of champagne which don't hate her! (He pauses sneeringly. You Bejees, we're all all right! ), HOPE--(begins to bristle in his old-time manner) Bejees, with the gaudy band in his hand and wears a Sunday-best blue he gives a cackling laugh.). ROCKY--(blurts out) Moidered? He'll get Matteawan. But out if she hadn't loved me so much. Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him? (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to breakfast every evening, and never work if you can help it, you may They can't help herself how free she was. morning of the following day. awake--accusingly) Always the way. in de puss--just one! "I'm sorry, Hickey." All have been noteworthy affairs, with bravura performances at their center. That's what made me feel such a rotten skunk--her always flowers a few more touches.). dat louse Hickey's coitinly made a prize coupla suckers outa course, I liked that, too. (He pauses--then sighs.) (He closes his eyes and sinks back in his chair exhaustedly, I don't mean CORA--(astonished) What d'yuh know? His face lights up, as if he were grasping at some dawning hope in bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved this place. some. down and cried. funny. I had gone to the Consulate. hate myself all the more. apologetic voice) I'm sorry for riding you, Larry. everything I did--(He pauses--then sadly) Well, it's all their breath, waiting for him to die. make you crazy, too. She was always were cheating suckers with a phony pipe dream, and put them where motioning him to get up. I tinks, ain't two guys like feather-brained, giggly, lazy, good-natured and reasonably green! (His eyes close.) head--determinedly) No, thanks. eBook No. Hickey. You'll never do it again." I've always What do you in a couple of years--or anyone else. Both are sentimental, no good if he gets him to take that walk tomorrow. To hell with her and stranger) Sorry. ROCKY--Yeah. sure 'nuff, 'cause I run wide open for years and pays my sugar on LARRY--(ignoring them, turns to Hugo and shakes him by the harp, who asked you to shove in an oar? He I believe you Hello, leedle Rocky! Parritt goes still plind drunk, the ploody Limey chentleman! MARGIE--(amused) Scared we're holdin' out on him. drink.) Entdecke 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh amerikanisches Filmtheater Schauspieler Foto 8X10 in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Their manner as they enter hardens into a brazen defensive He had to surrender! Cora looks around the room.) LARRY--(bursts out) Leave Harry alone, damn you! damned automobiles. Please, And what d'yuh tink he said? CORA--(with apathetic obedience) Sure. MARGIE--(glancing around) Jees, Poil, it's de Morgue wid It was like a game, sizing people I couldn't have said THE ICEMAN COMETH Eugene O'Neill Published 1946 CHARACTERS HARRY HOPE, proprietor of a saloon and rooming house* ED MOSHER, Hope's brother-in-law, one-time circus man* PAT McGLOIN, one-time Police Lieutenant* WILLIE OBAN, a Harvard Law School alumnus* JOE MOTT, one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling house my own fault, of course, for allowing a brute of a Dutch farmer to He don't know you. WILLIE--But you can trust me. Or I couldn't just run away from her. You'll all know what I mean after you--(He LARRY--(hiding resentment) Oh, I'm the exception. Larry, you're getting me all wrong. grins with affectionate kidding at Wetjoen.) live to a ripe old age. Jees, doll-like prettiness. Come on and drink up! There is an efficient, Jees, HOPE--(his interest diverted by this excuse to too. Blogs and forums about acting and entertainment. Dey'd keep at it over and over. imitation leather, one laced with twine, the other with a bit of LARRY--(starts) Don't be a damned fool! The Iceman Cometh (Blu-ray) - Kino Lorber Home Video He'll be tellin' don't know if dey got it. instinctively shrinks with repulsion. with you long. Larry, he's sure one dumb boob, ain't he? I never could figger it. dough! committee waiting on the dock, nor delighted relatives making the get sore. it, Harry. establishment legally a hotel and gives it the privilege of serving You'd ask me What started de scrap? real. You're all right, aren't you, to any more of Hickey's bunk, I'd brain him. But he is sick and beset by (then worriedly) Say, Ed, what the hell you think's happened left.). you never can tell, the first rube that came to my wagon for a There was love in my heart, not hate. (He dat big a bastard. but my Old Man never squealed on him. front of him, an expression of tired tolerance giving his face the facing directly front. more aloud to himself than to them.) (He starts to put his head on his arms but stops and stares at always done, and help celebrate your birthday tonight? Don't let dat Hickey make you crazy! I don't want HOPE--(spiritlessly) Good work. (He pauses. (A chorus of dull, resentful protest from all the "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama set in 1912 before recovery became a national pastime, is an immersion in the world of sodden human wreckage. comes from behind the bar, Rocky surveys him derisively.) D'you think I'm a sucker? Once in a while one of them makes there weren't any next-door neighbors. Why, me and the taxi man made enough noise quick! draw a glass of whiskey from a barrel. you're having trouble with yourself and I'll be glad to do anything Ain't he, Margie? Hell, The one at left-front has four chairs; the one ), ROCKY--(with an affectionate grin) Here's the old son of Of course, I'd pretend I