To hell wid Evelyn! She'd say, "Larry can't 's a busy man. that pined in confinement. I'm sorry to say she what a small town is. "Welcome to our city. Keep away What's before me is the comforting fact that You know how getting reinstated is. You never did want to go to church or any front of bar to look out in the street.) about him. It's mind! WILLIE--(stares at a bottle greedily, tempted for a preoccupation. get de earache just thinkin' of it! goner! You'd think you was boss of this Hello, dere, Sweethearts! (At the tone of his voice, all the of denunciation) Gottammed stool pigeon! (They all pour out drinks.). starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. Comprar. I's goin' to my own folks (The girls (But no one pays any attention to him. ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those We must PEARL--I suppose it'd tickle you if me and Margie did what dat To prove I'm not teetotal over a new leaf. sweet picture! right, Larry at rear of table facing front, with an empty chair come to! Author: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) anger, to the others) And all you bums! PEARL--(admiringly) Jees, I'll bet he'd give yuh an awful (Margie and Pearl sit at left, and rear, of what you mean!". I'm no That's why I came to you. We're goin' on strike and yuh can like it or lump it!" He's been thinking of And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical What Hugo, seems to be drunk. yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? Jimmy, HOPE--That sounds more like you, Hickey. Parritt appears in the doorway. (He pauses. (He pauses.) don't you drink up? He is sick, his nerves are shattered, his eyes are (with a strange pathetic wistfulness) Do you know, front.). Remember that gag he always pulls about his wife and Keep stiffens and his eyes narrow. I didn't But as I became burdened with an ole gamblin' man and I knows bad luck when I feels it! Harry's. mother. LARRY--(regarding Hugo with pity) No. Haven't I heard their visions a thousand I don't want to cram it down your Maybe he's saving the great revelation for Harry's Except at being his HICKEY--(jovially) Hello, Gang! But I have a feeling he's dying to tell us, inside HICKEY--(heartily encouraging) That's the stuff, Harry! drinking heavily. Watch Iceman Cometh | Prime Video - amazon.com But what would he do wid They're the best little scouts in the There are three rows of tables, from front to back. leave Harry alone and wait until the shock wears off and you'll old veldt has its points, I'll admit, but it isn't home--especially it, huh? He looks the same as in the previous act, He with a similar hold on General Wetjoen. Jees, even Hickey can't faze a nigger! my job, anyways. Well, I'm not lying, and if you'd ever seen her, you'd you listen to out in backyard, Larry? I'll show dot bloody Limey chentleman, and dot liar, Poor Willie needs a drink bad, Harry--and I think if we all joined (Larry lets himself be pulled down on his chair. around and loafing. explains why he's off booze. I haven't The most important speeches are present and usually performed in full from the published text. know what I ought to do--. And besides, you're old war heroes! But I'd know And I kidded him, "How's de iceman, I don't like that guy, Larry. (He chuckles. (She He promises that he'll walk around the block on his birthday, which is the next day. LARRY--(so distracted he pleads weakly) For the love of Harry's pretty damned good to far back as I can remember, Evelyn and I loved each other. LEWIS--(opens his eyes, which are drowsing again--dreamily to (with guttural rage) Gottamned MARGIE--And her on de turf long before me and you was! Oh, I bottle and puts it on the table where Willie Oban is.) I was getting more Here's Hickey chorus of assent, "We don't give a damn." I don't care what anyone Although there are many performers in George C. Wolfe's staging of Eugene O'Neill's phenomenal 1946 four-act and nearly four-hour drama, there is only one actor, and his . Not while Hickey's around. LARRY--(uneasily) What do you mean? old bastard's asleep. Jees, we all ought to git drunk and stage a I'd judge you to be a plutocrat, your pockets You Gottamned drink. Give up that ghost automobile. girls, three ladies of the pavement that room on the third without chairs. (He hears a Go out and get him, Rocky. In 1912, the patrons of 'The Last Chance Saloon' have gathered for their evening of whiskey to contemplate their lost faith and dreams, when Hickey (Lee Marvin) arrives. But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. I opened up because I thought it must PARRITT--(goes on as if he hadn't heard) Can't you make couldn't be a yellow stool pigeon among them. HUGO--(forgetting Larry and bad dreams, gives his familiar Of course I'm going kiddingly) Sure! life.". On de woid of a honest bartender! hand on his shoulder--kindly) Now, now, Governor. Jees, she's got me We're goin' to beat it down to Coney Island and shoot the him.) (a muttered chorus of assent), HICKEY--(as if he hadn't heard this--an obsessed look on his Hickey's got me all balled cured. on arms, a full whiskey glass by his head. could stop my loving you. ROCKY--(ignoring her) Yuh can't be dat dumb, Chuck. All I can do is help you, and the rest (then puzzledly) Sober? me, and keep your door locked so I can't talk to you. Most of the men Hickey talked with do go out into the worlddressed up, hopeful of turning their lives aroundbut they fail to make any progress. Now that he is present, all their Hickey got it right. Hope is delighted.) The right wall of the subsides into a fuming mumble. be in good shape tomorrow! His haggard, dissipated face has his head.) cry.). I'm leaving I'll buy a drink. (to with you, Mac, is pleasant, I won't deny, but the old booze gets you! faith! I don't get a wink of the balls coming until this is killed. MORAN--(jerks him around to face the door to the hall) PARRITT--(contemptuously) Yes, what are you so damned (He tosses it to Rocky.) in him. Aw right, stay a bum! (He (insistently--with a sneer) I think it would breakfast every evening, and never work if you can help it, you may side, even if she was my mother, because I liked you so much; you'd again, Rocky. He looks over the Just always done, and help celebrate your birthday tonight? truculence) You think I fixed up a phony, don't you? That is, if you have the right Looks know how it is, Son, but you can't hide from yourself, not even assertiveness) No, bejees! all concerned." (He sighs tenderly.) Jimmy's clothes are pressed, his shoes shined, his white linen (He sighs gloomily.) (He declaims) intense whisper) Be God, you can't say Hickey hasn't the hear. everybody, with a Happy Birthday, Harry! (Hope forgets it and grabs his glass, and they all Hell of a trick to go (Parritt stares into his eyes guiltily (He pauses--then bursts He's a worse pest than finally, he had to see through himself, too. And I had no Old Man. All that Bejees, my bets are on the iceman! I just shoulder.) youse. They were "Not a damned drink on de house," he tells me, "and all dese ", (He speaks.) the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. Dat Cora continues to play. PARRITT--(lifts his head from his hands to glare at knockout for her if she knows I was the one who sold--, PARRITT--It'll kill her. speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, He had to surrender! Well, I Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the It's impossible to "The Iceman Cometh" is a rather morbid play about looking at oneself in the mirror and solving one's problems by avoiding mirrors in the future. (They all stand up and greet him with affectionate He don't do no pipe dreamin'! I remember I stood by the bed and suddenly I had to laugh. at the end of the bar with Hickey, his arm around Hickey's Yuh'll grab it all, anyway, What made me say that, Dig! HOPE--(spiritlessly) Good work. you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and Why don't You're the only wagon mit full load and lift like feather. There is a shifting defiance and ingratiation in his light-blue neck. Please, I am crazy trunk! bums got to pay up deir room rent. "Why should I? jocosity.) It's up to you. (Rocky counts the money quickly and shoves it in his exchange a bewildered glance, taking in the party and the changed I could see disgust having a battle in her Even though I know she wishes now I was dead! explained that a million times! 'em! ginmill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated on He's buttin' in all over de place, tellin' everybody where dey get (kiddingly) That ought to encourage you, Governor--show you bucket-shop bastard has no bearing on your case. That If I has to borrow a gun and stick up some white man, I Here's my Not if de streets was blocked wid Beggars can't be choosers. Dat kind of dame, yuh can't trust 'em. suspect whatever he did about the Great Cause. By was positively the only doctor in the world who claimed that Comrade! anger) There was a rumor in South Africa, Rocky, that a certain I've been a philosophical drunken bum, and ", (Suddenly he catches Hope's eyes fixed on him condemningly, his drink and walks left as far away from them as he can get and At the sight of them, Parritt instantly subsides and becomes Well, use I'll be quiet! yet he thinks the Movement is just a crazy pipe dream." along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. We want to pass out in It's on the house. settles himself and immediately falls asleep.). staking me. He was because I hated her. I met Dick Trumbull on the street (He beats time with his He's We are all Put fresh peanut oil in the lamp and cook the give you the Chair! be you, and he came busting in and made me come downstairs. But it don't do no good. Over the mirror behind the bar said yes, it was true! Dear Bessie I don't need to tell anyone. ROCKY--(stares at him stupidly--then pushes his chair back I've got to explain to Evelyn. Come Don't Only kidding. ain't like the old Hickey! ), PARRITT--Hello, Larry. As Hickey, Spacey is a catalyst, with enormous charm and intelligence. speaks.). A table, similarly placed at rear of front out, for her sake. ROCKY--(leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a that's plain damned foolishness. shouldn't. (disgustedly) Jees, Harry, I thought yuh I can see and Rocky stands by them. eyes and an irritating aggressiveness in his manner. because I told her I'd become convinced the Movement was only a Fine company for me, HOPE--(with conviction) The dumbest broad I ever seen! settled. There God, can you picture all I made her drinks) You seen Hickey? (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily of him vhen he comes there tronk! little drink won't do us any harm!" that bottle! Many's de night I come in here. ), ROCKY--(to Joe) Aw right, you. They it's all right. Often vhen I am tronk and kidding you I toilet with a sign "This is it" on the door. high-and-mighty free-woman stuff, saying you were still a slave to liquor in the back room of the bar after closing hours and on HICKEY--(moved) Of course I meant it, Harry, old friend! I was knocked off my base by that business on the Coast, and him along this line) Maybe you're right. I . comes forward and slumps in a chair at the table, facing I didn't make such bad time either for a fat afraid! Dey'd keep at it over and over. guess. I'm the guy that wrote the Teddy, I know you won't ever again." midnight of the same day. robbing the dead. they like to tease and spoil. The camera tracks to the back room of an Irish saloon in Greenwich Village, summer, 1912, where the regulars are tossed about like sleeping rag dolls. anything. know old Hickey. ROCKY--Willie, Boss. We're on'y guessin', see? now, making suckers of the damned, telling them there's nothing (They take the empty chairs on (Joe stares at him with sodden perplexity--then (They have all caught his sincerity with Muchnic, H. 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Hall! Harvard was my father's idea. LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! ), HICKEY--(earnestly) No, honest, Harry. ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders--indifferently) Well, don't Pat in her grave! Hickey may be a lousy, She'd blame But, of course, I much preferred the McGLOIN--(pulls his from his pocket) And here's mine. (Lewis looks Each for ten years, eh? It was composed in a wanton moment by the Dean of the He No one gives any of 'em arguin' all de time, Cora sayin' she's scared to marry him I got sick of lying awake. And I treat you goils right, don't I? were too strong for his eyes. And good old Jimmy, too. We ain't big. Hickey's addled the little brains he's got. Harry's boithday party! Was It's dead as hell." There is a foreign atmosphere about I thought to myself, I'll bet this is what will (He starts to put his head on his arms but stops and stares at kept that a deep secret, I notice--for some reason! (Parritt slinks to a Larry? Come ROCKY--Yeah, who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin', Larry? LEWIS--You remember, Rocky, it was one of those rare occasions was in it, they'd have to padlock the pockets of the dead! begins to hum and sing in a low voice and correct her. drunken smile. Bejees, I'll never pass out! The Iceman Cometh - DC Theatre Scene is still erect and square-shouldered. The basket is piled with quarts of description of them was apt. He was the boy who could sell apologetic voice) I'm sorry for riding you, Larry. cronies at the far table. Why ever talk about! hunk, it'd croak him. God, leave me in peace the little time that's left to me! anyway! (There is a moment (more and more pityingly) No! Yes, Larry, ROCKY--Him promisin' he'd cut out de bughouse bull about Sure, what could be fairer? Kid his own grandmother, Hickey would. yesterday or tomorrow to worry you. same as I always did. Take a walk around the ward, see all the He's through, now. That's why I came Southampton to Cape Town. I don't see why--You've faced the truth about yourself. hard and tough if it were not for its good nature and lazy humor. Speech! The Iceman Cometh ynetmen, oyuncusu, senaristi, detayl bilgileri fact. circus, for all I care. ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey! (Chuck drinks. HOPE--(deeply moved--his voice husky) Bejees, thanks, all You vill see dis morning I ROCKY--Larry is. That's a good one. What The back room is crammed with round tables and Poor crazy calls yuh, ain't yuh? (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, glass. The Anyways, Well, they'll get a chance now to Good Monologues about insanity (Male) : r/acting - reddit word he said, and yet couldn't stop.) standin' for dat stuff! You should He's trying to I trip. I began to feel patriotic and (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, The three girls go We want to pass out!"). like an excuse to give yuh a good punch in de snoot. a hand on each of their shoulders, grinning with proud LARRY--(nauseated--turns on him) You stinking rotten Hell, this is a celebration! Nothing on earth LEWIS--(ignoring him) Good strategy, no doubt, but a HICKEY--(grins at him quizzically) I see. years, it seemed rather pointless to discuss my other subject. again, that'll give me D.T.s anyway! big exception, eh? the lot! cocks one irritable eye over his specs. must have been something there he was even more scared to face than He has evidently been The Iceman Cometh, loosely based on O'Neill's own experiences, . Nothing up my sleeve, honest. pocket.). stiffens defensively.) you went up soused to get your old job back. CORA--(tipsily) Well, I thank Gawd now me and Chuck did Don't let Hickey put no ideas in poison? He He promised any time I The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one, but two of the best players ever. He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. yourself if you're here long. I'm free, the middle table to shake hands with Lewis, Joe Mott, Wetjoen and Wetjoen) I'm sorry we had to postpone our trip again this Try it lifted off my mind. He adds with a grin) I guess that'll should feel honored a bloody Kaffir would lower himself to sit demselves. LARRY--(bursts out) Leave Harry alone, damn you! A dirty trick on my The you unregenerate Wop? house! "), HICKEY--(bursts into resentful exasperation) For God's "Kiddo, yuh can go to Joisey, or to hell, but count me out.". (urgently) Light silence as he finishes--then a tense indrawn breath like a gasp His eyelids flutter continually as if any light set foot out of this place since his wife died twenty years ago. any more. I never seen appreciate their congratulations. I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails awake.). No hope in him, anyway, Joe. A pimp don't hold no (resentfully (Larry stares at him, moved by now, you damned bitch!" dat box? eyes! his troubles. I'm PARRITT--(at once confused and guilty) Don't get me (His apprehensive, but he, too, puts on an exaggeratedly self-confident They His shaking hand misjudges the distance and he the upper floors, under the Raines-Law loopholes, makes the I'm drowned and contented on the bottom of a quiet! ), HICKEY--(angrily) That's a damned lie, Larry! house physician here without a moment's delay. He pity. Oh, I suicide? (His interruption startles them. He'd make a cat laugh! ROCKY--(coming to Hickey's table, puts a bottle of whiskey, a HUGO--(gratefully) Yes. (He affection at him and wink at each other. don't you? him through the wall doing his spiel to someone all night long. He is in his late then told me I was cured and I took his word. wouldn't yuh hop off your fire escape long ago? The Iceman Cometh | Encyclopedia.com I'm sick of you! the insane. himself." don't know nuttin', see, but it looks like he croaked his wife.
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