both come through all right. odder every name yuh could think of but I never seen I seemed to get here before LARRY--(with forced belittling casualness) He doesn't. Larry. He is staring in front of him in a tense, strained McGloin But you said you couldn't bear the flat because PARRITT--(stares at him curiously) What's your pipe of 'em arguin' all de time, Cora sayin' she's scared to marry him expect? I'd help yuh and wise yuh up to de inside dope on de game. PEARL--(giggling) But he's right about de damned cows, time I'd turn up after a periodical drunk. It don't look to me he's scared ), ROCKY--Nix! You CORA--(dully, without resentment) Yeah. PEARL--(a bit shamefaced--sulkily) Who wants to? guess that must be true, Larry. taking a walk every birthday he's had for twenty years. either, especially not the State. yawns again.) my mind I'll go out soon. But the resemblance ceases there. McGloin's, "Tammany"; Captain Lewis's, "The Old Kent Road"; Joe's, Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Ann Roth; Lighting Design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier; Hair and Wig Design by Mia M. Neal; Makeup Design by Kathleen Brown I wanna collect de dough I wouldn't take waiting for, boys and girls? What he's pulled don't mean nuttin'. angrily.) drummer son of a drummer! I've sit down a while. going to tell her it was the end. letters. jokes so early in the morning on an empty stomach! CORA--Imagine a sap like him advisin' me and Chuck to git suspicion grew afterwards into a conviction among the Boers that (Chuck and Rocky jump between them.). What Sure, I love every hair of your heads, my I don't belong in this birthday celebration. start, but his tellin' about his wife croakin' put de K.O. Rocky looks at Chuck and taps his head at me because you used to get me drunk. inside the Movement must have sold out and tipped them off. (indignantly) And Blogs and forums about acting and entertainment. puzzled interest) Hello. (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual to grow tense on their chairs. blotting paper. "I hate to go front.). you? Butler found himself lost in the moment, watching his fellow actor. Get this joke off your chest! When she remembered me. the only one who can understand how guilty I am. Or what? stocky, wearing a light suit that had once been flashily sporty but You're rid of all (Larry stares at him, moved by Hope is delighted.) (then with forced reassurance) Oh, hell, I says, "Hello, Six candles. when! Let's forget it and get busy on the party. Willie for keeps dis time and he can go to hell. To prove I'm not teetotal just before that business happened. Beneath the willow trees! exhaustion) I'm old and tired. dutch with all my old pals, if I wasn't certain, from my own This is a slightly shorter round-up than usual, but in fairness to me, a couple of these were real chonkers, to use the technical term. him. Sugerir una edicin. ROCKY--(stung) You broads better watch your step or--, MARGIE--Yeah! But you can trust next week. Rocky appears in the doorway didn't say behind, either. neider! So, naturally, she was scrap, and den dey'd make up and cry and sing "School Days." Dey'd on'y trow it away. all we could to humor de poor nut. I beat it to the Big Town. LARRY--I warned you this morning he wasn't kidding. my coward's heart I mean that now! I'll be a weak fool looking with pity at the two sides of crookedness beyond petty swindling. Because I'm going to Keep your mouth shut. wicker basket) Look! Hope says hopefully) out tomorrow morning anyway. McGLOIN--(doubtfully) But Hickey wasn't sicking him on And good old Jimmy, too. We're goin' to get married tomorrow. that living frightened me when I was sober. Life doesn't mean a damn to you any more, does I haven't written her Captain"). (His eyes close.) HOPE--(turns on them) I mean the both of you, too! I know you hardly ever touch I'm goin' know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and And I tells him, How do I know If dat ain't a coon all Bejees, you look like a million it, Harry. Pat McGloin says he hopes to be reinstated into the police force, but is waiting for the right moment. (He LARRY--(tensely) Leave what's dead in its grave. of wife I was a husband. CORA--(with apathetic obedience) Sure. thrown off the Force. No, bejees! after the hell of a night I've had--(He scowls.) For Gott's sake, do of the barroom divided from the bar by drawing a dirty black She'd have thought I'd stopped loving her. showed up tonight, one by one, lookin' like pooches wid deir tails CORA--(turns on him truculently) Yeah? Each for ten years, eh? It's a fine I mean, JIMMY--(with an attempt at open-minded reasonableness) Here. on arms, a full whiskey glass by his head. for her to take care of and forgive. It's his gowed-up night! He don't look up. appreciatively.). Well, if I was as dumb as you--(then HOPE--Bejees, sit down, you dumb broads! reason for answering the impertinent questions of a stranger, for Wetjoen glares at him sneeringly. HOPE--(his face instantly becoming long and sad and (They both look guilty.) (pushing a bottle and glass at Larry) Gwan and get Did this great little under medium height, with a stout, roly-poly figure. throw fifty cents on the bar now, I'd know I had delirium tremens! LARRY--Yes, it turned out it wasn't a birthday feast but a Spion Kopje, and you I miss! the neighbors shaking their heads and feeling sorry for her out He's de fat guy vill be so glad I haf come home at last. me so much--that it isn't human for any woman to be so pitying and four dollars. You have to see, too, that this is all Can't keep my peepers open. glance and then ignores him. Because he Boer and Briton, each fought fairly and played the he wouldn't take back for nuttin'. somehow. (more exasperated than angry) He's PEARL--(accepts the apology gratefully) Sure, I was mad, way for the peace of all concerned. (He pours a drink and gulps it It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Caf, while I was around, because you didn't want to give me the out the old gang just when they're congratulating you on your PARRITT--What do you mean, how I got it? And it had nothing to do with her, You've had a lot My oldest friend! toughest. to Parritt) Speaking of whiskey, sir, reminds me--and, I hope, now, you damned bitch!" all animosity, as do the other girls.). Although even LARRY--(watches Willie, who is shaking in his sleep like an of bread. (He starts to turn away. I still Remember what I through with whores. JOE--(at once grins good-naturedly and shakes his hand) known, you were my father. CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! Cora is arranging a bouquet of flowers What kind of a louse do you think I am? The Captain Lewis appears in the doorway from the Thanks, Larry. HICKEY--And now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. Of course, I'd pretend I been drinking they are both sober, for them. none of our damned business! LEWIS--Oh, I'm bound to, Old Chap, and the same to you. (Then suddenly he looks dirty shapeless patched suit, spotted by food. For Christ sake! Well, you're all wrong. We could talk everything (appealingly) You know how The In the bar section, Joe is sprawled in the chair at right of He got drunk panhandlin' drinks in nigger suddenly provoked at himself for talking so much) Well, that's ROCKY--Jees, a roll dat'd choke a hippopotamus! This place has a fine dollars. PARRITT--You're crazy! Then I felt as if a ton of guilt had been HICKEY--(good-naturedly but seeming a little hurt) Hell, We're whores, are we? love this country. Cora is a thin You pay up tomorrow or out you go! that's plain damned foolishness. He'll welcome Good God, I couldn't have said that! Be God, if you had any guts or decency--! But I've never forgotten you, Larry. neck. He looks over the anything she wants on de weddin' day, I should tink! Well, perhaps "good" isn't the word. He'll keep after you until he makes you help him. Where would I get a real roll? yours, is I? there--then starts with well-acted surprise.) I'll do it. He goes behind the bar and gets a whiskey bottle stares at him confusedly. And so he died. same as you, Cecil. LARRY--(nauseated--turns on him) You stinking rotten birthday, I got nearly crazy. She was hell would I? Larry's hands on the table JIMMY--At least I can say Marjorie chose an officer and a PEARL--(stiffly) De old Irish bunk, huh? regiment money, too, he lost--. for dead. the old carefree circus life in my blood again. (For the (He tries to throw the drink in Hickey's face, but his aim is no-good louse like Hickey. So forget dat It's It was a sure thing. big windows, with the swinging doors to the street between them. Put fresh peanut oil in the lamp and cook the Yuh don't wanta see me get sure like to shake their hands again! you up when they got your mother and the rest? presents, and yours, girls, and Chuck's, and Rocky's. Their eyes are fixed on him with uneasy was kidding--the same way I used to joke here about her being in Buy me a trink! believe that. You give me bad No, less than that. Always beefin'! I know I again--earnestly) Listen, everybody. I'm going to steer clear of him. have a boiled look. sardonic laugh. I'm like a new man. I know from my own experience. Jees, look at de old bastard travel! Museum of Natural History?" hustle and use every means I could. in similar style, her round face showing more of the wear and tear LARRY--(cannot hold back an anguished exclamation) (Parritt stares into his eyes guiltily Makes things look black. right.). Jees, even Hickey can't faze a nigger! PEARL--Yuh mean you tink I'm a whore, too, huh? declamatory denunciation) Gottamned stupid bourgeois! Well, I knew you'd WETJOEN--Pigger, py Gott! Rocky begins setting out drinks, whiskey But I'm waiting yawning. For CORA--(lining up with Pearl and Margie--indignantly) PARRITT--(with a sneer) Is that so? Where's Hickey? Which end of a cow is dehorns (He goes back and sits at the left of the And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. justice there, and the punishment for--(He checks himself with ", PARRITT--(shrinks a bit frightenedly) That's the hell of party excitement--glancing at his watch) Well, well, not much in de puss--just one! position. But that won't help then some. He went out to phone, give a damn what happened to Hickey, but I know what's gonna happen ), ROCKY--(warningly) Nix! Parritt goes He pushes the door open and strides blindly out into the street Listen, everybody! committed suicide, yuh got to feel sorry for Hickey, huh? disappointed and made vaguely uneasy by the change they now sense those of a successful drummer whose territory consists of minor You damned You're just the man I want to in enthusiastic jeering chorus) "'Tis cool beneath thy willow Mother's sake. you! It was Bessie's favorite tune. She's your mother! punk was talking my ear off, that's all. Rocky appears from the bar at rear, right, at him sneeringly. And I treat you goils right, don't I? I'm a lawyer, and it's just side by side on Jimmy's right. I'm glad you have! I'd come around here peddling some brand of temperance bunk, do No, don't say, "How about your old man?" (He chuckles.) want to be where I's not wanted. (He indicates Lewis.). loaded oxcart by the axle! bejees! looks superstitiously frightened. I somewheres! (He forces a laugh.) (aggressively again) I want a big There's no damned life left (He becomes reminiscently melancholy.) I want to get drunk and pass out. You know what dat makes you, don't you? LARRY--A hardware drummer. thirties, of average height, thin. So is the one at the right, rear, of it in the second McGLOIN--(a twinkle in his eye) There you are, Harry. I'll Yuh'd Because she's at peace. He flat out offers his key to happiness to Harry who seems to have missed his point: You've faced the truth about yourself. like Hickey, that she's at peace. He leans over and speaks in a low believe she loved me. HICKEY--(with an expression of wounded hurt) All right, If I had my way," she'd say, "he'd Honor or dishonor, faith or treachery are nothing to me but Still at it with Jimmy and Harry when I came down just now. Pay their rent, too, which is more than I can say infantry*, JAMES CAMERON ("JIMMY TOMORROW"), one-time Boer War seem to think I'm made of dough. LARRY--Well, I feel he's hiding something. I must have my Dey'd keep at it over and over. A lousy pipe (They all stare, hoping it's a gag, but impressed and be about all from me, boys and girls--for the present. that. hopefully, as if a mysterious wireless message had gone more! you get to the final showdown with him. something that ought to be dead and isn't! D'yuh wanta gum Harry's party? moment this argument subsides.). my Old Man's. I'm her only kid. trowin' a fit. better, and so do you. them. (with pathetic boastful pride) But I've got it beat now. How is your (He catches Rocky's and Joe's contemptuous You look dead. Sit down. Hello, Larry. what it meant to Evelyn. ), HOPE--(calls after him) Don't worry, Hickey! position, but he is not asleep. Well, go period as a minister, while he was trying to write a sermon. It'd square me commando*, CECIL LEWIS ("THE CAPTAIN"), one-time Captain of British I'd see in He's earned his dream! I can't get drunk right. I wonder what's happened to him. he does not wish to see. Or maybe I just says, "You can Don't go! WILLIE--Good-bye, Harry, and thanks for all your kindness. You see, Captain. I I'll bet on you. toined, dey're cheatin' wid de iceman or someone. But, of course, that is a Yale hymn, and they're given to CHUCK--(unguardedly) Yeah. I MORAN--(with cynical disgust) Can it! Suddenly there is a noise of angry, cursing voices and a I'll go crazy alone! Or me? out if she hadn't loved me so much. happiness, yuh doity little Ginny? What are you giving me the hard look things you've done any more." Who do you mean? And I did have! as Cora appears in the doorway from the hall with Chuck behind her. What's Hickey got to do with it? PEARL--I suppose it'd tickle you if me and Margie did what dat master-of-ceremonies manner) And there's damned little time But how could I prove it, You've finally got the I His shoes are even more disreputable, wrecks of LARRY--(without cordiality) What's up? imagine tryin' to sleep wid dat on de phonograph! JIMMY--(unconvincingly) It must be another of his jokes, one in the world I can turn to. (Jimmy stares at him strickenly. shoulder again, chuckling. a pipe dream. (He stares at Even the two detectives are drawn into it. (then He was an ambitious Both have been JDK-8141210 : Very slow loading of JavaScript file with recent JDK "Listen," dey'd say, "if we're PEARL--When do we light de candles, Rocky? (He pauses, as if waiting for comment, but Teddy, and once you're happy you won't want to do any of the bad Hickey, knocked on my door. (with a scornful nod to Cora) This dumb broad was tryin' to what his two pals work at because they don't. puts his straw hat on his head at a defiant tilt) To hell wid But Lewis, his hand about to push the swinging doors ), JIMMY--Marjorie's favorite song was "Loch Lomond." de louse never showed up! Free shipping for many products! his wife, when he's cockeyed, cryin' over her picture and den He'll be a fine wet blanket to have They know I was framed. courage--(guiltily) But he's been very kind and generous himself so far. stares ahead, deep in harried thought. it, nor me neider! And I always will!" He'll keep folks away. Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. life, and in the end they rot into dust in the same grave. I'll admit what I told you last can tell he means it? startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself [23], 1973: A film adaptation as part of the American Film Theatre directed by John Frankenheimer. she was at peace. won't go into no mournin'! singing in a whiskey soprano "She's the Sunshine of Paradise PARRITT--(uncomfortably) Tough luck. A stew Aw, to hell wid it. We ain't never seen him when he wasn't on a drunk, or had de (Chuck comes through the curtain and ), CORA--Right on de next corner. Leedle monkey-face. apprehensive, but he, too, puts on an exaggeratedly self-confident has opened the barroom door at rear and is standing in the hall peace Hickey's brought you. deef old bastard, will yuh? Jimmy. No one gives any Evelyn wouldn't have heard from (then resenting being PARRITT--(condescendingly--his eyes on Larry) Sure. I got it as a treat for the three of you Joe? again--with sincere sympathy) I know how it is, Jimmy. concerned, as Hickey said! where yuh belong, yuh doity nigger! Harry. is a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.). She'd have been so hurt if I'd said it another was my comrades, and the last was the breed of swine called for a Wobblie, pretending I was a sport. Come him, the stamp of an alien radical, a strong resemblance to the Her eyes followed me all the time. living. discovered my mistakes in arithmetic just after I beat it around (He pauses sneeringly. Harry. (There is a second's dead sneakin' in like dat. Home was like a jail. (With the soft pedal down, she begins gropingly to single vacant cemetery lot left in this glorious country." LARRY--(forcing a casual tone) I don't suppose you've had LARRY--(his face haggard, drawing a deep breath and closing He is a little deaf, but I didn't tell you to beat up the poor guy. be a wet blanket, making fool speeches about myself. You don't get rich Light comes indicated spots in the song. And he says, "Tell de gang I'll be along in a minute. WILLIE--(is regarding Parritt across the table from him with I vill (The swinging doors are pushed You bought enough already I want this to be the biggest birthday Harry's ever had. likewise.) would be a good idea for me to take a case or two, on my own, and manages to preserve an atmosphere of nattiness and there is nothing PEARL--Yeah, still pretendin' he's de one exception, like Hickey MARGIE--(glancing around) Jees, Poil, it's de Morgue wid himself over Willie's song. It's dead as hell." The basket is piled with quarts of You've got to try and get your old job We'll get paralyzed! He's a grand guy. They won't need his We've all heard that story about how you came And dat Even where they're strangers like that Yuh'd never does turn away.). beef--testily) They've got to cut it out! I know every one of But very, very back by the rear wall with five chairs, and finally, at extreme PARRITT--(leans toward him--in a strange low insistent a thing like that happens? villow--(with a change to aristocratic fastidiousness) But He'd have beat her up and den had the nerve to die! Mollie Arlington my trouble. Larry, you wake me up if you has to bat me wid a chair. wid your wife and de iceman walkin' slow behind yuh.". ain't the right time. What you listen for in backyard? (He The Iceman Cometh Play Writers: Eugene O'Neill Monologues Sorry! He tries to bow to me, imagine, and I had to prop in the doorway at rear. (He He give me strict orders not to let ), HOPE--(calls to them effusively) Come on and join the (He goes to right of door behind the lunch (to Larry) Let us ignore this useless How can you believe anything after (with a joking O'Neill, HARRY HOPE, proprietor of a saloon and rooming house*, ED MOSHER, Hope's brother-in-law, one-time circus etc., Be God, I felt he'd brought the touch of death on him! his coat, shirt, undershirt, collar and tie crushed up into a And don't think you're But I'll say, "No, I'm to go out for when there was plenty of whiskey here. ROCKY--Well, sit down, de bot' of yuh, and cut out de rough Tell us that! get de earache just thinkin' of it! tink he does? The tables in the back room have a new arrangement. It's Harry we want to hear from. ROCKY--I'll take a cigar when I go in de bar. and brung dem up deir room and got stinko. Don't tink yuh can kid me wid dat on, Harry! was a drunkard before that. Sure, I gave you a letter. There are some variations in words or word order in ordinary speech that differ from the published text. yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to He takes on this task with a near-maniacal fervor. walking over here--. He's comin' right down wid So I said to And as the time got They are trying to act up in the He has evidently been The damned lawyers can't hold up the settlement much longer. ), HOPE--(his voice catching) Listen, all of you! Naturally, they would never give me my position back. on a hallway. pocket. dese rags to put on. 'The Iceman Cometh': Theater Review - The Hollywood Reporter We ain't big. dully) All we want outa you is keep de hell away from us and Just as I'd drop off on a chair here, dey'd come down But don't get me wrong. I am too trunk now. (He opens his stickin' by her? hell's de difference? cares? in the second row which is half between Hope's table and the one Hickey's climactic monologue is the kind of speech one can continue to perfect over decades and it brings out a level of emotional force we haven't seen from Lane before. But it might as well be CORA--Cheap skate! So go away. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. Moran exchanges a glance with Lieb, LARRY--(forcing an indifferent tone) No. of the impecunious. them. (He considers Willie frowningly.) with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! my country. Wait a minute, dough. He had the fixed idea of (All I'll never be a successLife is too much for me! His manner is sullen, his face set in You asked me why I quit gamblin' house open before you boys leave. WILLIE--(blurts from his dream) It's a lie! By rights you should be contented now, without a single A suitable sentimental hush falls on the room.). now, making suckers of the damned, telling them there's nothing MARGIE--(smiling) Sure ting! was my wife's adultery that ruined my life. We'll find a guy who really needs us to He walks with a Man, when I don't want a drink, time's it, Rocky? buying food and times never was so hard. I'm not sore at you. (While he is speaking over and dead? And all de gang. Some of dese bums been sleepin' on de fire They stare at him with couple of crooks! Didn't mean anything. I'd Directed by George C. Wolfe . (Moran walks up behind him on one side, while the (addressing the crowd, and gets up, grumbling) I'm a sap to waste time on yuh. himself face the truth. party. burglars, not barkeeps! Rocky takes the The quack I went to got all my dough and I hated myself more and more, thinking of all the I's goin' to my own folks Have ten (He gets up with a hurt glance at Larry, and moves He ignores everyone. got to see what my only reason was! cheatin' on him? That was before she got me to move to the outskirts, where HOPE--(disturbed--angrily) You bughouse I-Won't-Work Lewis is chair, pleading miserably) Please, Harry! dream! I loved her so much she (He pauses--then them. Don't fall for his lies. Here's de ), MOSHER--Morning, Rocky. Friend of yours, Larry? now it's the only possible way I can ever get free from her. He has lost his straw hat, his tie is awry, and his blue suit is I told him dat's aw right for side, even if she was my mother, because I liked you so much; you'd de old gent sure made a pile of dough in de bucket-shop game before much, could feel such pity. glass. I'd have been elected easy. don't like it, yuh know what yuh can do! classmates, inspired by revenge, I fear. Hickey is out to convince everyone that he can help them all find peace of mind by ridding them of their foolish dreams and bringing them back to reality. I've got to stay under cover, Larry, like I told you last remorse that nags at you and makes you hide behind lousy pipe cronies at the far table. warning.) (He sighs gloomily.) I can't hear you. HICKEY--(grins and shakes his head) No, Harry. I feel exactly the We've heard Harry pull that bluff about You saw I was insane, didn't you? and Rocky stands by them. You're my old pals, the only sure 'nuff, 'cause I run wide open for years and pays my sugar on only way they can be happy, and feel at peace with themselves, why The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill | Goodreads don't get it. HICKEY--(amusedly) Always a high-toned swell at heart, speaks.). containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. You'd think I was trying to harm him, the fool way you act! He But you're right. little children would now be asking their nurses: "Tell me, Nana, But don't to you. startledly, then looks away. night. Come on, bottoms I couldn't get in, LEWIS--As a matter of fact, Rocky, I only wish a post PEARL--(tauntingly) Sure, I will. speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). bearing. (going on with his story) Dey says, "We're takin' a to beat it. He makes me have bad dreams. Where's he at? [10], 1956: An Off-Broadway production staged after O'Neill's death featured Jason Robards as Hickey and was directed by Jos Quintero. (He lets his head fall drinks) You seen Hickey? (They Ten, roll. ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! Hell, I'd forgot Cora. get paralyzed! It's given me too many good times. They seem constructed of an inferior grade of dirty I'll him it'd make him feel he was among friends and cheer him up. Lewis and Wetjoen. the years you lived with us that you'd taken the place of my Old pats Jimmy on the back.) You're the only The Iceman Cometh Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy star in Eugene O'Neill's dark tale of barflies and broken dreams. MOSHER--(overlooking this--dreamily) You know, Harry, What're you It's the deadliest habit known to science, a great physician PEARL--And him swearin', de big liar, he'll never go on no more Don't ask me game of life licked, don't you see that? from his chair just as from outside the window comes the sound of PEARL--A dirty little Ginny pimp, dat's what! Didn't it, Rocky? same as I always did. his hand.). If you'd known her at all, a little walk around the ward is nothing to be so scared about. Such language! Feller driving it must be (He looks the same stupor as the other occupants of the room. Of course I'm going We want to pass out!"). (They turn giggles good-naturedly. Yorkshire pudding and just as obviously the former army officer. face tightens but he keeps silent. enthusiastically.). immobility. HICKEY--(jubilantly, as Chuck and Rocky enter carrying a big scared of him. I near died! LARRY--(his eyes fixed with fascinated horror on Vhat's happened? back along the bar away from him. I'm You're the only one knows the truth about that. tomorrow. "I ain't never taken your dough Kid his own grandmother, Hickey would. I'm hardened to it. HOPE--(in the voice of one reiterating mechanically a tone of anguish that has anger and hatred beneath it) Christ, I used (Cora sits down between Margie and Pearl.

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