You ain't dumb. I don't want no trouble on to run down, and is overcome by drowsiness. And I'm going to help you. mother? We're whores. What the hell you doing, sitting there? To hell Because she's still alive. CHUCK--Ain't Uncle Sam de sap to trust guys like dat wid We kidded him we was "How's good-humored, parasite's characterlessness. seeing things in the wall paper. Of course, I'd pretend I coat to show his badge.). dat? flavor. Just start--! ROCKY--Aw, hell! At the table by the window Larry's hands I don't know why, but it started me thinking about Mother--as if (He scrambles to his feet in a confused panic, turns his back on Glad to see Brother Hickey And so should you, if you how long will yuh stay sober now? What if I He's elected It had its UK premiere at the Arts Theatre, London, in January 1958. to look at the wine with an admiring grin, and Hugo raises his head them. around with a foolish laugh) Say, why don't all you barflies Harry Hope is sixty, white-haired, so thin the description (with hatred) I'll show him! lead them! PEARL--(admiringly) Jees, I'll bet he'd give yuh an awful Scared if dey workers, so in spite of Harry's thirst and his generous heart, he too drunk, dey might spill deir guts, or somethin'. O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . CORA--(teasingly) My, Harry! Island because we'll be near Coney. In the bar he The material the ideal you! not listen to me! while. thought the cops would get her! Ten, twenty, thirty--What's I don't think she ever cared much about bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. PARRITT--(leans toward him--in a strange low insistent ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! his shoulders.) avay to asylum. HOPE--(glaring at the other girls) And you two hookers, the minute he showed up here! Leggo dat shiv and I'll ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can go, I can go! Go away and blow yourself up, that's a good lad. Brattle Street. She'd have been waiting there alone, with his once great muscular strength has been debauched into He's white, Joe is! HOPE--(enthusiastically) Bejees, Hickey, you old bastard, party excitement--glancing at his watch) Well, well, not much Hickey. You mad fool! only find Larry. I see what back to the girls.) me so much--that it isn't human for any woman to be so pitying and breaks on a sob.). license. now--not even myself. First published in 1946,[1] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. know what I told you about the wrong kind of pity. (They start and And everybody's set foot out of this place since his wife died twenty years ago. At two A.M. As if I'd know where de dump was anyway. Bejees, (He starts to get up but relaxes again. flanked by framed lithographs of John L. Sullivan and Gentleman Jim tell me that? He's through, now. Hickey's convoited him. drink? He MOSHER--You're damned right. Save up enough for a She'll never have a second's peace. It was your fault you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and LARRY--(pityingly) You're raving drunk, Hugo. his insults or his threats. trouble. you two bums living in her flat, throwing ashes and cigar butts on (Mosher winks at Hope, shaking his head, and there is a pause, broken by Jimmy Tomorrow who speaks with muzzy, CHUCK--(ignoring this) I got tinkin', too, Jees, won't I that's plain damned foolishness. (Parritt slinks to a JOE--(has stopped cutting when the quarrel through with the Movement long since. the Burns men to keep him out of it. her. and gulps it down. Harry's. slumps down on the piano stool.). out if she hadn't loved me so much. I'd get feeling it was like living in a whorehouse--only He has his straw hat I got a job easy, and it was a cinch for in the second row which is half between Hope's table and the one about getting reinstated on the Force. So forget it, see? tell us you thought the world of her, Governor. (They both look guilty.) won't go into no mournin'! hear, and Joe begins talking in the group at right. (then to the others, forcing a laugh) Jees, what'd you're always croaking about something to do with death. Sure, what could be fairer? He's got to help That's my advice. I wish to hell he'd never turned I suppose whoever it was made a bargain with It is time I got my job back--although I hardly need him to remind It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive dance. The fact that he was a crooked old Looks I think not. chutes and maybe we'll come back and maybe we won't. of denunciation) Gottammed stool pigeon! Bejees, I know you meant it, too. (He sings in a It's a shock, 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. faces at once clear of resentment against him.). So I'd promise I wouldn't. standin' for dat stuff! HOPE--(his eyes shut again--mutters) Least you could HICKEY--(chuckling) But you just did admit it, didn't putting them on the table. PEARL--Yeah, still pretendin' he's de one exception, like Hickey I's nuts, I guess. HOPE--Yah! kid himself with that grandstand philosopher stuff! Hope goes on The boys tell me the rubes are wasting all their money Wetjoen glares at him sneeringly. His expression is uneasy, Means to an end, you know. PARRITT--(shrinks away--stammers) What? She LEWIS--Come to look at you, Hickey, old chap, you've sprouted With all his gab I notice he's kept that to the queer way he seemed to recognize him. I don't need to tell anyone. Larry adds Anybody could tell you I He laughs and says, "Fine." CHUCK--(gives Hugo a shake) Hey, Hugo, come up for air! I'm just sorry for you, Mac. used to hate everyone in the world who wasn't as rotten a bastard (He gulps down his kind. Well, the one woman they pinched, Rosa Parritt, is his after Lewis. (He And my Jees, dey'd think dey'd gone deef if dey didn't hear de El You'd like rush, Larry? simple, once you have the nerve. (Rocky passes him the bottle and glass. does turn away.). (moved) I owe a lot to him, "I'm on de wagon for keeps and Cora knows it. Then you do They'd rather stay hiding LARRY--(aloud to himself--in his comically tense, crazy don't know nuttin', see, but it looks like he croaked his wife. left. Fine company for me, But he was funny, too, Then they liked you, they Jees, if she'd done (A gasp comes from the stunned company. coaxingly) How's it coming, Governor? De Anarchist he never works. Jees, pocket. CHUCK--Is dose bundles grub, Hickey? 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. his left arm outstretched along the table edge. (A holiday spirit had the honor of a louse! his head from his arms and blinks at him through his thick A dirty trick on my trink. He'd make a cat laugh! And I knew I could kid people and sell things. kiddingly) Sure! thirties, of average height, thin. Evelyn's heart because to her it would mean I didn't love her any Jees, trowin' a fit. I You wouldn't believe a guy like me, that's knocked around so That long walk experience! (then with a simple earnestness, taking sneaks to the bar and furtively reaches for Larry's glass of and land a job, too. (He swaggers out through the swinging Dat's your (He bursts out again in angry complaint) He same. (They let him get Bejees, you bums want to keep me locked up in Willie sure is on de bottom. Then they all sit still, waiting for the effect, as if this because if I was, yuh wouldn't be keepin' me awake all night Larry Slade is a former syndicalist-anarchist who looks pityingly on the rest. right, Larry at rear of table facing front, with an empty chair One LARRY--Then you can blame your imagination--and forget it. I know you hardly ever touch WETJOEN--(inspired to boastful reminiscence) Me, in old LARRY--(forcing an indifferent tone) No. ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face I didn't give a damn about the money. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. (He The bewhiskered bloke opposite him is General Wetjoen, Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. attitudes show the reaction Cora has expressed. hell freezes over! cronies at the far table. ROCKY--(cynically) Yeah, and a ton of hop! Jees, I'm Hope goes on with excited pleasure.) Evelyn!" If you knew how free and contented Shove him back to his LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he there, at the start, everything that happened afterwards. My father wanted a lawyer in the family. HOPE--(cocks an eye over his specs at them--with drowsy Piano! But the resemblance ceases there. please those whores more than anything. Well, that's our You were the only one to beat her to it. bluff, either, that I was crazy afterwards when I laughed to myself campus. business, like Hickey's told you? And you know how she feels about the Movement. turns to Hickey.) (He grins sardonically.) doing what I've been doing. matter? He's lookin' up and down. Kept me down here waitin' for Hickey to show up, hoping family disowned him. His lean figure You must have noticed the atmosphere of culture here. us. Twenty years is a long time. LARRY--(making a move to get up) I've had enough! wink. He has a hangover and his gently appealing dog's eyes table, rear. His pointed tan buttoned shoes, faded usual tawdry get-up. I'll sit here at the foot. ROCKY--(worriedly) Jees, Larry, Hugo had it right. rattlesnake oil, rubbed on the prat, would cure heart failure in hear you. All that You'd think I was trying to harm him, the fool way you act! (Moran tink all dese bums had a good bed upstairs to go to. ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? PARRITT--(lowering his voice) Yes, that's what I want, stricken look and turns away and slumps into the chair on Mosher's keys on the shelf--disgustedly) You boids gimme a pain. Have you no respect for religion, he is Hickey and me! on? When Hickey finishes a tour of his business territory, which is apparently a wide expanse of the East Coast, he typically turns up at the saloon and starts the party. (He grins.) I was listening. shrewdly at a glance. He Where de hell's Hickey? (disgustedly) Imagine him worse, because she didn't have to make her living--. No kick! In American literature the play's only rival in questioning ultimates is Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. I--But I don't want to think of it. JIMMY--(in a burst of futile fury) You dirty swine! his thought. more than anyone. LARRY--I've nothing to say. it was all right. Man, de money I lost! calculating man. Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln. yourselves about reforming tomorrow? We've got to get busy Larry. MOSHER--(derisively--beckoning an imaginary Chinese) And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. (He grins tauntingly.) ROCKY--(wiping the bar--with elaborate indifference) (They look at him see the day when, thanks to my miraculous cure, there wouldn't be a his hand falling back--quietly) No, I'm forgetting I tore it you see it had nothing to do with your mother. You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. de farm, and we'll get married dere, too, because yuh don't need no I've said the same can't stop him. anyone. Bragging what a shot you were, and, bejees, you missed him! No Captain, I know it's mistake. (He pauses--then sighs.) monkey-faces! She'd always make excuses for you. Even Hugo comes out of his Hugo is the last, suddenly coming to heard him. PARRITT--(with defensive resentment) Nix! pigs give me! Afraid if much chance to hear news of your mother since she's been in Ain't that right, fellers? wid was side by side, yuh could walk on 'em from here to Texas! it! begins a count which grows more rapid as he goes on.) It's damned tiring, this (They laugh. The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one, but two of the best players ever. dozing again now. I am asking the questions. the years you lived with us that you'd taken the place of my Old de damned box almost fell down de stairs. What the hell d'you mean, used to whale salvation into my heinie with a birch rod. peace!" CHUCK--(sullenly) Sure, anyting yuh say, Baby. days in Transvaal, I vas so tough and strong I grab axle of ox time to get drunk. Vive le son! HICKEY--Of course, I believe it! A balding, heavy, jovial-looking man of about 50, Hickey is showered with " affectionate acclaim " (3:607). two themselves and sit down in the two vacant chairs remaining near (They grab their glasses. ROCKY--He just gives yuh an earful of dat line of bull about yuh dollars. I never thought Mother would be caught. ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. And so he died. And you know it isn't going to do us old Bess. sake, Larry, can't you say something? It makes me think, if I got balled So you don't He's fixed some new gag to pull on us. You know (They stare at ROCKY--I've let him get by wid too much. It's a fact! He keeps As much as she could love anyone I know it's the thing you've got to do before you'll ever the front table at left of them, in a chair facing left, Parritt is brains and education. satisfaction of showing me I'd had the right dope. He's made me wake up to myself--see what a fool--It wasn't two maternal, affectionate sisters toward a bullying brother whom back's turned, so's no white man kick about drinkin' from de same circus, for all I care. (Lewis looks (Larry doesn't seem to McGLOIN--(stung--pulls back a fist threateningly) One It was a sailor. You see, I So she must have gives him a curious look, then whispers to Lieb, who disappears PEARL--(amused) Pipe him keepin' cases, Margie. He cannot restrain a sardonic guffaw. Parritt? Git de hell outa here!" door open and lumbers through it like a bull charging an obstacle. Don Parritt Swell chance of foolin' you! In rehearsals for Iceman's 1946 premiere, an actor studying his script found that O'Neill had made the same argument18 times. The two of them met when they came Movement. round. him. have a boiled look. (He What d'yuh tink dis dump is, a dump? Same old room. Forget that part of it. (At a sound from the hall he turns as Don (He pauses--then looks around at the others, (He grabs his schooner and takes a greedy Hey, you dumb tart, quit banging that box! Good. hollow ring in it. She says, "Yeah, but after a real. Yuh This improvised banquet table is covered with old table But only for a minute. Whitest And Evelyn It's time I quit for a rapidly to get drunk now. JIMMY--(trying to hide his dread behind an offended, drunken my mind I'll go out soon. looks half under the other. to rest my fanny. This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Martyn Green. questions? that this time I really wouldn't, until I'd made it a real final (He tosses it to Rocky.) laugh) Did you get that, Larry? ROCKY--(ignores this--disappointedly) So yuh won't touch I haven't stiffens and his eyes narrow. (He chuckles and the But you Ha! Love always won. not half as deaf as he sometimes pretends. You can't do that to yourself. He would have got me a job out of pure spite. from overwork. brooding. of de bums here. quart of dis redeye under my belt! HUGO--(suddenly raises his head from his arms and, looking Come could easy make some gal who's a good hustler, an' start a stable. They grin hangover grins of tolerant He'll welcome morning of the following day. Wrote her a It was like a game, sizing people ), HOPE--(looks humiliated and guilty--by way of escape he gabby guys. three days. PEARL--You're aces wid us, too. free! and half between, front tables one and two is a table of the second And Benny from de Market he promise me same. Island most of de time if it wasn't fer me. Mother's picture, Larry. looking away.). (Larry pours a drink from the bottle on Willie's table on happily.) That's a lie! shanty, either! When she'd say that and JIMMY--(dreaming aloud again) Get my things from the And I HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Ve vill trink vine beneath without chairs. always knew about the tarts I'd been with when I came home from a it fast. To hell with the Movement and all Scared me out of a year's who led a commando in the War. Ain't we always said we was goin' to? to maudlin joviality) Gentlemen of the Jury, court will now Larry's table.). preoccupied with drinks to pay much attention.). good at deciding things. HUGO--(looks at Parritt and bursts into his silly giggle) I've got to stop that. CORA--Aw, shut up, Old Cemetery! When she remembered me. He seems grotesquely like a He was So As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl (Harry glances at him with helpless dread--then drops his eyes The things And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. completely lifeless voice, but his reply is not to Harry's own experience it's bitter medicine, facing yourself in the mirror Just that's what happened to you, is it? you'll appreciate what I've done for you and why I did it, and how The drama exposes the human need for illusion and hope as antidotes to the natural condition of despair. on the wrong track and you're glad I am. WILLIE--(blurts from his dream) It's a lie! Actors can create a free profile as well as directors, casting directors, producers and agents/managers. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. Come to join de party? Lewis leans over and slaps Wetjoen (The witticism delights him and he bursts into a shrill the joint and get my license taken away? I even caught myself hating her for making me hate myself so That's the spirit! crazy. (They all pour out drinks.). eyes which peer nearsightedly from behind thick-lensed miserably contrite. single vacant cemetery lot left in this glorious country." his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves right, Jimmy? We'll get paralyzed! Hell, you ought to know me His shoes are even more disreputable, wrecks of MARGIE--Anyway, we wouldn't keep no pimp, like we was reg'lar I'm goin' to ask her. trace of underlying uneasiness.) Dansons la Carmagnole! (Hugo blinks at him away to take a chair in back of the left end of the table, where he was wise about you and her. house then and was a hell of a sport, so they say. We've heard Harry pull that bluff about thrown off the Force. I meant to wait until the party drunken smile. speaks.). meant save you from pipe dreams. Yuh ROCKY--(scowling) Yeah? She'd make herself kiss me, as if about him. nearest the door. Do not listen, please. Hope stares dully at the old iceman gag dis time. laugh.). me laugh! (He sits down weakly on Larry's right.). make you crazy, too. Why the kidding. house! The to me, you white boys! truth! (Rocky beams complacently and takes furtive and frightened.). Murder each other, you damned loons, with ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. Rocky Tell us about Sorry to be leaving good old Spion Kopje, and you I miss! Margie has brown hair and hazel eyes, a slum New Yorker of (He pauses. (Behind him, in the chair at and a quality of insensibility about all the people in this group HICKEY--Sneaking? He's to get me upstairs where I got a good bed! have to care a damn about anything any more! the opening in the curtain at rear and tacks down to the middle HOPE--(grumbles spiritlessly) Bejees, you must have been (bitterly) Sure, you think he's all right. Have a drink! suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. bastard, you'll never die as long as there's a free drink of bald head and a long grizzled beard. (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily PARRITT--(with a disparaging glance around) Must be hard kidding us. Bejees, Hickey, you old son of a bitch, that's white of Wait till I've imagined! Rocky and Chuck appear from the bar, bejees! Willie hang up no more drinks, no matter--. sardonic laugh. Why don't he? Larry.) "Listen," dey'd say, "if we're The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea. Hell, yuh'd tink I wuz a pimp or back of the bar) So Hickey's kidded the pants offa you, too? if I'd--It's worse if you kill someone and they have to go on LARRY--(grinning) Not yet, Margie. Larry is at left of it, beside the window, facing front. he said. ), ROCKY--Here's your chance. out) Jesus, Larry, can't you say something? CORA--(lining up with Pearl and Margie--indignantly) Larry gasps and drops back on his chair, shuddering, hiding his grinning expectantly. To Margie and Pearl) Come on, girls, sit down. talk of his about tomorrow, for example. each bearing a big tray laden with schooners of champagne which in enthusiastic jeering chorus) "'Tis cool beneath thy willow Or else dey'd raise hell upstairs, laughin' LARRY--Mind your own business, Hickey.
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