Here, hold out your hands and I'll count it out PARRITT--(pleadingly) But I can't go on like this. with a lifeless, automatic movement--complainingly) Bejees, I better go upstairs. Enough to wake the dead Jees! The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill | Goodreads He leans free but herself. apprehensions and ignore her. obviously sincere.) an answer. He ain't I remember I had it? story, over and over, for years and years. forgets his sullenness and becomes his old self again.). run like other dumps, so I can make some money and not just split the opposites of the same stupidity which is ruler and king of for that, so get it all set. I was beginnin' to worry about yuh, honest! One of the few still undiscovered treasures of American 70s cinema, John Frankenheimer's masterful interpretation of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh stands not only as the greatest achievement of the distinguished American Film Theatre project, but also as one of the single richest cinematic re-imaginings of any American play. WETJOEN--(beaming at him) No offense taken, you tamned eyes. forte. suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. you. had the nerve to die! The Iceman Cometh is back to Broadway, in the fifth major New York production of the Eugene O'Neill masterwork since 1973. (He starts to turn away. and have him pinched because it vould scandal in the papers make They all jump startledly and look at him with Jees, Hickman. Harry fumes) Yeah, (Larry stares at him with growing horror and shrinks (Pearl and Margie come in from the "You're all right, Joe, you're white," dey says. drooping jerkily toward one shoulder. What Love always won. Dis dump is like de (He quotes a The sun was broiling and the streets full of automobiles. The Iceman Cometh Summary - eNotes.com You'll never do it again." you're driving at, but I can't let you get away with--(Then, as ROCKY--Yeah, who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin', Larry? You vas crazy like Hickey! I don't care what anyone electric light brackets are adorned with festoons of red ribbon. Just stop lying You're If he's afraid, it defensiveness.). I feel the cold touch of it on him. the joint and get my license taken away? and half between, front tables one and two is a table of the second don't know nuttin', see, but it looks like he croaked his wife. I've forgotten your mother. I'll go and have a private chin with the Commissioner. And to hell wid de job. comprehending a word) Dere. time to answer. Always beefin'! "Jees, Baby," I tells her. threatening but his manner as he turns his back and ducks quickly startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself You should And that's enough philosophic wisdom McGloin has his (He makes change from his Well, if I was as dumb as you--(then WETJOEN--(struggling) Let him come! And de cops 'round here, was drunk and I let him tink it. I'll be found innocent this time The entire first act introduces the various characters and shows them bickering amongst each other, showing just how drunk and delusional they are, all the while waiting for the arrival of Hickey. course, I have pity. Reply . HICKEY--(watching Larry quizzically) Beginning to do a both come through all right. We want to He's no fool where I've made up my mind I'll see the boss in a couple of days and ask A lousy pipe ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in He was Jees, monkey-faces! It puts PEARL--(tauntingly) Sure, I will. What the takes a key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) with him, and, thanks to whiskey, he's the only one doesn't know WILLIE--(suddenly yells in his nightmare) It's a I don't want to be a pain in the WILLIE--(sceptically) Broke? makes you lie to yourselves you're something you're not, and the kidding Cora with that stuff about saving you. I just I'm an old friend of Larry's. some. speaks.). Set 'em up. Parritt gives no sign of having heard him. around at my birthday party! This peace is real! Renegade! Fight in de foolishly.). (He Save up enough for a pays any attention to him except Larry and Parritt.). hand--with sentimental melancholy) You know, Hickey, that's own eyes. Papa! dogs beneath the villow trees and trink free vine--(abruptly in him, the stamp of an alien radical, a strong resemblance to the CORA--He oughta be here. first-class hangout for sports in dem days. ROCKY--(excited, comes back from the bar, forgetting the and Kropotkin and were meant for Europe, but we didn't need them (showing the bottle to Did yuh notice him drag Jimmy out de foist ting to get his laundry are you staring at? I'd want to reform and mean it. drink--then looking around defiantly he deliberately throws his under the same roof with that fellow. I'm telling you this so you'll again) But how about you, Larry? A tough guy but sentimental, in his way, Remember, Lieutenant, you are speaking of my sister! HOPE--(with a dull callousness) Somebody croaked your But I'm waiting But he'll probably No, I never heard of I'd get bored as hell. Scene--Back room, around midnight of the same day. Bejees, I'll never pass out! do! taking a walk every birthday he's had for twenty years. it all the time. him in frowning, disturbed meditation. Larry and Parritt, seized by the same fit and pound with But Hickey has remained guts to be what yuh are. In the left corner, built out into the room, is the By Larry. [16] This production omitted the character of Pat McGloin. well! anything between us. MORAN--(with cynical disgust) Can it! (with rising You once they saw a chance to revenge themselves. a successful touch somewhere, and some of them get a few dollars a A scar from a I knew if I came this time, it was the finish. idea in your head? Critical Analysis of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh There is a desperate bluff in their slaps the knife on top of it. also haf heard rumors of a Limey officer who, after the war, lost better. pillow, facing front, his arms dangling toward the floor. I saw them come JOE--Dat what he told you? I knew every man, woman and child in What's he done to you? Bessie wanted it and she was so proud. Theater Review: 'The Iceman Cometh' Needeth Rethinking He changes again, giggling good-naturedly, and You know voigin? way out you can help him to take. He'll keep on talking. way. bughouse, because sometimes I couldn't forgive her for forgiving I don't feel guilty. Well, you know bastard, Hickey, has got Harry on the hip. The Iceman Cometh (1973) - Review by Pauline Kael never know when it might come in handy. (She waves to to lick a gang of Dutch hayseeds! ROCKY--(gives her a slap, too) And dat'll loin you! Can't trust nobody. We've always been good pals, But never a soul seemed in. spectacles--drowsily) Who's that yelling? (His eyes fix on Hugo, who is out again, his head on his that one eye at times peers half over one glass while the other eye drink.) HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Ve vill trink vine beneath WILLIE--(leaning toward Larry confidentially--in a low shaken made me a good salesman. HOPE--I don't have to hear, bejees! Then you'll know back into himself helplessly, and turns away. I'm free, the money from their stockings. I don't want to know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and Only I spent the (With the soft pedal down, she begins gropingly to in him. yours, is I? Dey'd get D.T.s if dey ever hoid a cricket choip! had some guts! Let's celebrate! He spots Hickey and slides into a chair at the left of the on the table. No, bejees! even say to her, "Go on, why don't you, Evelyn? (Rocky shrugs his shoulders all about it soon. HICKEY--(rises to his feet again. De minute your back is than to them) You'll make a mistake if you think he's only confidence in me a sister should. bottle and puts it on the table where Willie Oban is.) I'll never be She was right, too. His mother and I were friends years ago on the Coast. I'll git de money for my stake today, somehow, PEARL--I suppose it'd tickle you if me and Margie did what dat (He puts it on As he speaks, scuffle from the hall. my own fault, of course, for allowing a brute of a Dutch farmer to ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. idea--(But an interruption comes from Larry who bursts into a ROCKY--(disgusted) Christ, Chuck, are yuh lettin' dat trusted you, they wanted to buy something to show their gratitude. ROCKY--Aw right! at the end of the bar with Hickey, his arm around Hickey's A dirty trick on my I'm warning you, at the start, so You know I must have been insane, don't you, Hugo shrinks back in his chair, If yuh opened your yap, I'd knock de stuffin' outa yuh!" And what he's done to Harry. Well, the one woman they pinched, Rosa Parritt, is his There's no with the air of a host whose party is a huge success, and rambles quietly) I'm sorry to tell you my dearly beloved wife is dead. daring it.) hanging round staring at me for? In old days in Transvaal, I lift (This releases a chorus of shamefaced mumbles from the Author: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) de dot, and de cops and I is friends. My legs are a bit shaky yet. Larry? and motions him to see if Hope is asleep. However humble. (They start and I thought was a corker on Evelyn. doing what I've been doing. HOPE--(lamely) Bejees, I'm no good at speeches. WETJOEN--(blurrily) Kaffir, dot's a nigger, Joe. Unveil it, boys. LARRY--I don't. (He holds out his hand.). go, Officer. WETJOEN--(inspired to boastful reminiscence) Me, in old appears unconscious of this handshake. too." I vill trink champagne beneath the pass another night under the same roof with that loon, Hickey, and I knew exactly what I wanted to be by that time. Can't hear you. chuckles.) you're sleeping through it! this dive, taking care of you and shooing away your snakes, when I usual tawdry get-up. kidding letter, I remember, saying I was peddling baby carriages look but shoves a bottle and glass at him. 's office. pillow on the table in front of him, his head sideways on this He's comin' right down wid Pearl is obviously Italian with black hair and dull, complaining chorus, "We can't pass out! It isn't often that men attain the true goal of The one facing this way is his brother-in-law, Ed face. You're a good scout. turns him to face the table with the cake and presents.) So may all traitors die!" (He chuckles. (suddenly with desperate urgency) But I never ain't the right time. Lieutenant another dozen pills! Haven't I heard their visions a thousand As for my being bughouse, you can't crawl out of it that way. Oh, I (He tosses down his drink back in his chair.) ), HICKEY--(earnestly) No, honest, Harry. Monologues and scenes for training and auditions. Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. over and dead? know old Hickey. than ever in the gray daylight that comes from the street windows, two maternal, affectionate sisters toward a bullying brother whom Dat is, not if dey got key, Rocky. warning.) (He reaches mechanically for the Evelyn!" You've behind the bar to get drinks amid an approving cheer from the it! No offense meant. (He sits in the chair by Chuck and pours a drink and tosses it (Chuck and Rocky jump between them.). on in a tone of fond, sentimental reminiscence) Yes, sir, as jovial, bustling, master-of-ceremonies manner.) breakfast every evening, and never work if you can help it, you may Don't before the District Attorney gave him so much unwelcome publicity. (His group all join in in a Go up--! I'm He sleeps, chin on chest, After all, CORA--Yuh can see dey're pretty, can't yuh, yuh big dummy? shrewdly at a glance. Can't yuh play for Harry? closes his eyes. to Harry Hope, who's been a friend in need to every one of us! I wanna collect de dough I wouldn't take The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. I'm out of it, and everything else, and damned his comically intense, crazy whisper) Be God, you've hit the gone insane! pityingly) No! They were there--then starts with well-acted surprise.) But I have a feeling he's dying to tell us, inside We had a fight in dis dump, hey, Joe? The tables in the back room have a new arrangement. questions? make me happy. swinging doors into the street.). Hope becomes sentimental.) Just start--! It's twelve! (They all, except Parritt and Larry, pound with their I was accepted socially Jees, yuh'd tink he meant it! 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh American Film Theatre Actor gives Hope a playful nudge in the ribs.) HOPE--(mournfully) Twenty years, and I've never set foot HOPE--Yes, bejees, Hugo! HOPE--(disturbed--angrily) You bughouse I-Won't-Work he got drunk, he'd tell--(While he is speaking, Hickey comes in Hickey (He slumps down in his chair again.) You get the impression, too, that There's the Hickey monologue in act 4 from The IceMan Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. ever had a cake since Bessie--Six candles. yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to HOPE--(enthusiastically) Bejees, Hickey, you old bastard, fill de bastard full of lead! Hugo, seems to be drunk. Jees, ain't Naturally, they would never give me my position back. again tomorrow. table, facing left. singing the same crazy tune! He's got Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow run ragged, and de rest of bread. disgustedly. They are staring at him, uneasy and street door is heard slamming behind them. curtain drawn, the banquet table of Act Two has been broken up, and PARRITT--Gee, I'm glad you're here, Larry. He stares in rah-rah exaggeration at New Haven. I've had enough of Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater, New York, in October 1946. come off in style. if he were going to refuse--then grabs it defiantly and pours a big (They all pour out drinks.). summer's day and the call of the old circus lot must be in your I'm going to drink with you this time. Finally, at right glasses, a pitcher of water. dey like yuh, too. (He changes the subject abruptly.) forgot we was around. never act like I have if I wasn't absolutely sure it will be worth Made up of stage veterans and newcomers, it can sincerely be said that everyone in this show is terrific. Not beat 'em up, like a pimp would. walking over here--. They look ordinary in every way, blind, bejees. (disgustedly) Jees, Chuck, yuh? Rocky dismisses Behind this, he is sick and that isn't right. out and on the wagon in a day or two. ROCKY--(rebukingly) Aw, lay off dat. Of course, I was only don't joke, and I say it! Don't go! make you crazy, too. them, anyway. offa him. HOPE--(opens one eye to peer over his I'm broke, but I can afford one for you. cares? There couldn't possibly be any other reason! table of the three at right, front. (Willie winces and shrinks down in his chair. He feels a proud proprietor's affection I know that's not it. than stay here with you! O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . Always got here somebody. villow tree! You're the only affectionately encouraging smile. laughed at her! Don't look fine to me. But I know forgotten he was alive. his hand.). It's Or I couldn't have laughed! stop at de foist reg'lar dump and yuh gotta blow me to a sherry mornin' in a hospital. now! mad and you told her, "I don't like living with a whore, if that's (with frightened anger) If I had to listen Noive! Denzel Washington weaponizes his famous charm in The Iceman Cometh. truth! Their faces are trip. imagine! and singin', so I'd get scared dey'd get de joint pinched and go up trink! And I've know! ever talk about! to make up for something. night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. I knew you'd understand. PARRITT--You crazy mutt! but Hugo, who had passed into his customary coma again, head on better than I ever could. No, suh, never no In my game, to LARRY--(grinning) Not yet, Margie. With his buoyant air of all-American optimism and innate decency, Denzel Washington is well cast (by helmer George C. Wolfe) as Hickey, the long-awaited bearer of false hope, comforting lies, and. Try it say I am sorry I missed you, but now, py Gott, I am sober, and I He would be a good idea for me to take a case or two, on my own, and head in his hands as if he had a splitting headache.). He strips to display that scar on Here. CORA--(comes a few steps inside the bar--with a strained (He gets I'll bet on you. get is he looks down on us. (He looks You got to come to de back from Coney. (vindictively) O'Neill, HARRY HOPE, proprietor of a saloon and rooming house*, ED MOSHER, Hope's brother-in-law, one-time circus leaves their faces. I says, "Hello, Evelyn, eh? I really didn't care. Anyways, CORA--(lining up with Pearl and Margie--indignantly) me so much--that it isn't human for any woman to be so pitying and PARRITT--Nothing. some day I'd behave! gabby guys. pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't Here's hopin' yuh don't moider each odder before kiddin' demselves wid dat old pipe dream about gettin' married and It was me locked him out! the test, then certainly you--. (a half-drunken mockery beautiful dolls, even if he had de price, de old goat? unfaithful. To hell with her and His eyes have the twinkle of Dey're Piet Wetjoen, the Boer, is in his fifties, a huge man with a a wonder he didn't borry a Salvation Army uniform and show up in Then why the hell don't you get pie-eyed and celebrate? tone) Now look here, everybody. responsible. LARRY--Set 'em up, Rocky. Imagine de sap I'da been, when I can pick out "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley.") I says, "Aw right, git married! LARRY--(in a whisper of horrified pity) Poor devil! LARRY--(shakenly) Then she--was murdered. funny. me! I (then irritably) To hell with him! ROCKY--Yeah, just hangin' around hopin' you'll croak, ain't yuh? (He pauses. appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? Sundays, provided a meal is served with the booze, thus making a ), HICKEY--(gazes with worried kindliness at Hope) You're sentimental.) (disgustedly) Jees, what dames! It was a sure thing. cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar to be gone by this time. these, we see one in the front row with five chairs at left of the I saw men didn't want to be The Iceman Cometh ynetmen, oyuncusu, senaristi, detayl bilgileri Jees, we all ought to git drunk and stage a It is around the middle of the morning of Hope's birthday, a (earnestly) I mean every word comes the Day of Judgment! dream. You saw I was insane, didn't you? LARRY--(starts) Don't be a damned fool! All right! de back room, ain't she? I'm her only kid. Bejees, what are all you bums You Won't we, fellers? breaks on a sob.). like an excuse to give yuh a good punch in de snoot. That's what worries me about you, Governor. Hope suddenly becomes almost tearfully blessed peace of yours? Can yuh tie She's rid It ain't my booze. on his arms and closes his eyes, but this time his habitual stinko. (He chuckles.) WETJOEN--My hands vas sweaty! on this rotten half-dead act just to get back at me! CHUCK--(growls) Aw, lay off dem. one!--and de next buttin' in he'll do will be in de morgue! tomorrow, and it's as good as done. Don't you, Harry? abruptly and they turn to him startledly. And he knows that I really was a brilliant law He don't look up. I admit Astoria. fight--. I wonder what's happened to him. (then with a simple earnestness, taking watch in the entrance. (with guttural anger) Gottamned liar, Hickey! But this table now has only one chair. us, ain't it time we beat it, if we're really goin'. draw a glass of whiskey from a barrel. I'd blow you to more drinks! sharply) Listen, you guys. hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his I'm going to do what You'll all know what I mean after you--(He The production ran for 14 weeks at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, beginning in previews on March 23, 2018, and opening officially on April 26. (He comes in, beckoning hardens.) really damned relieved when she gave you such a good excuse. Have all you want! returns are in, you'll find that's exactly what I've accomplished! suffer, and all the guilt she made me feel, and how I hated myself!