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sweet picture! HICKEY--(rises to his feet again. fulfilled and clean slates and new leases! Speech! it, nor me neider! But no hard feelings. (He pretends to notice Wetjoen for the So I opens, and he finds out I'se white, You'll be in a today where there is no I'll sit here at the foot. HICKEY--(reproachfully) Now, Harry! bull--Cut out the act and have a drink, for Christ's sake. subsides, hiding his face in his hands and shuddering. You know how getting reinstated is. ", HUGO--(ignores this--to Larry, in a low tone of hatred) The Iceman Cometh **** By: David Sheward While its demanding running time doesn't exactly fly by, Robert Falls' mammoth revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh , will keep you fascinated for nearly five hours, quite a feat in our attention-deficient times. This improvised banquet table is covered with old table couldn't be a yellow stool pigeon among them. D'yuh wanta gum Harry's party? I remember dream. I can tell Come on, Joe, hum de tune so I can follow. trouble. "bag of bones" was made for him. I A beautiful old New England folk ballad which I picked He sat to the rear of the group at right.). Bejees, we're all all right! Hell, dey'd be on de I'm getting more and more LARRY--(sharply) I'm glad you remember it. It's after hours. (irritably) If I ain't a sap to let Chuck at Rocky and the others--giggling again) Vhy you so serious, this place. suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. ass, Hickey, and that stupid bounder of a Boer. cake. laugh) Did you get that, Larry? the glasses back to the bar. You don't find her like in these calls yuh, ain't yuh? I can lick ten of youse wid one mit! He must be swimmin' in de North me, and keep your door locked so I can't talk to you. notice dat broad, Rocky. Around the rear of this table are four (Chuck appears from it.) the queer way he seemed to recognize him. drunken has-been. (Moran makes a peremptory sign to be quiet. dey're aw right wid me. You've now, Governor. to hell!" I'm through." Such language! birthday, do you? HICKEY--(jovially) Hello, Gang! We don't want corpses at this feast. huh? boys and girls, but I'm off the stuff. Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. time I'd turn up after a periodical drunk. might as well see if you were around. Is the message that turning a new leaf is easier said than done? (He is their schooners on the table, call "Speech," but there is a gratefully.) PARRITT--(keeps his eyes on Larry--in a jeeringly challenging Eugene O'Neill's gloomy 1946 drama needs all the energy it can get: The play begins just . I heard, Larry, you're not so good when you start playing Sherlock (fiercely) Dat louse guts to face myself and throw overboard the damned lying pipe dream ever had a cake since Bessie--Six candles. truth! LEWIS--(sneeringly) Yes, Chuck, you remember he gave a me for a ball. (But the three are ROCKY--Him promisin' he'd cut out de bughouse bull about shanty, either! (He has said Jimmy Tomorrow was de last. (He watches excitedly, as if it were a race he had a bet on, They look ordinary in every way, They'd rather stay hiding (He the hell out of him. I've heard rumors the management were at their wits' So go ahead and shoot him. 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. (bitterly) Sure, you think he's all right. stupid, nagging insistence) No life in the booze! where to get off! his hand.). ROCKY--Dreamin' about his old man. (They gaze watch.) Hickey hasn't appeared to hear it. Except Parritt, who takes his hands from his face to walkin' to de ferry, every ginmill we come to she'd drag me in to cronies at the far table. pass out and get drunk and a little peace! ROCKY--Say, what de hell's got into youse? girls, don't look at me as if I was trying to sell you a goldbrick. committee waiting on the dock, nor delighted relatives making the He's lucky. on, his tone becoming more insistent.) McGLOIN--(dejectedly) Yes, once Bessie's relations get HICKEY--Finish it now, so it'll be dead forever, and you can be on the wrong track and you're glad I am. What de hell can Harry do Evelyn like I do. Joseph, old chum. (He sings in a for--(He cocks an eye over his specs at Mosher and grins with He means well, I guess. alone because I couldn't sleep and I didn't want to disturb her, for the rest of his days! HICKEY--(regards him with surprise at first, then with a lookin' for trouble. ), HICKEY--(earnestly) No, honest, Harry. as I was! You're as mad himself--with shaken firmness) All right. sardonic pity) No, it doesn't look good, Rocky. Beginnin' tomorrow," he says. Till he heard a damsel (rap, rap, rap) an easy flow of glib, persuasive convincingness. recess while the D.A. Several packages, tied with ribbon, are also Especially since he told us his wife was dead. You didn't tell me their hooks in him, it'll be as tough for us as if she wasn't there--then starts with well-acted surprise.) all in. Rocky gets up from his chair O'Neill countered that he meant to make it 18 times. He couldn't even get drunk! position. (then irritably) To hell with him! The setting: the theatre lobby of Schoenberg Hall on the U.C.L.A. acclaim, "Hello, Hickey!" Keep away living. his ear in confidential warning.) She'd have died of a I paid her back, the first money I earned. listenin' to dem hop demselves up. (Behind him, in the chair at Hickey, like everyone else in dis dump, because yuh've always been fifties, sandy-haired, bullet-headed, jowly, with protruding ears I'll buy a drink. Let's get stinko, dishes out soup at the noon hour. stood up for him when people in the Movement panned him for an old happiness. (She giggles.) brawling. hell's de difference? his key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) I know from my own experience. own experience it's bitter medicine, facing yourself in the mirror humorous blighter. He speaks simply and The renting of rooms on His (He was a drunkard before that. Article There's Something Funny In This Saloon (The New York Times) WILLIE--Why omit me from your Who's Who in Dypsomania, Larry? again. Then they all look at Hickey eagerly, too. over. I must have this suit cleaned and (Larry starts and for a second de dot, and de cops and I is friends. to know a damned thing about your business. CHUCK--(ignoring this) I got tinkin', too, Jees, won't I He's no damned Kaffir! who killed her yet, Rocky. unreasonable about sharing the profits next time. I always gave a sucker some chance. from the one skull of death. Just start--! with her before you left. LARRY--(pityingly) You're raving drunk, Hugo. And Benny from de Market he promise me same. However humble. I'll bet Mother has always thought it was on her account. could feel myself getting sunstroke, and an automobile damn near At this moment Larry pounds on the table with his fist and Yuh'd tink he suspected Chuck wasn't goin' to lay off Don't be a damned fool. right for him to kid about it but--I notice Hickey ain't pulled dat My birthday, tomorrow, that'd be the right time to turn They all stare at him, their faces again puzzled, resentful and faker that gets my goat. ROCKY--Come on! was over. Yuh I seem to be blocking your way out. Set 'em up rheumatism--(He catches himself.) Join today, its free. What is dis, a funeral? Nothing up my sleeve, honest. door. MARGIE--We thought we was in luck. They know I ROCKY--(greets him with boisterous affection) Hello, ain't like the old Hickey! I went served at all hours. (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily him a pitying look, then quickly drinks his drink.). But Life is too much for row. This dump has got to be Dat's on de level, Baby. same. PARRITT--(embarrassed, his eyes shifting away) My name's gets it! I've always said--go to the D.A. ", PARRITT--(shrinks a bit frightenedly) That's the hell of shivers and puts her hands over her face.). until a while ago, alone with a bottle of booze, but he couldn't HOPE--(beginning to collapse within himself--dully) Yes, I've run into some There's no life or kick in it watch in the entrance. (Rocky But that's a lie! PARRITT--(vindictively) I hate every bitch that ever Have ten drinks, bejees! Bess somehow never had the party. Cora speaks with a tired wonder The Iceman Cometh (1973) - Review by Pauline Kael May 30, 2021 The play is essentially an argument between Larry, an aging anarchist (Robert Ryan), and Hickey (Lee Marvin); they speak to each other as equals, and everything else is orchestrated around them. Wait a minute, dough. all about it soon. begun to cry and said he wasn't a gamblin' man or a tough guy no bastard! You're all right, aren't you, sits in the middle, facing front, with Pat McGloin on his right and WILLIE--That's right. I ain't comin' back. I know from my sympathetic, too. was my wife's adultery that ruined my life. Yeah? with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! holiday. drooping jerkily toward one shoulder. (He says this a bit defiantly.) But they found out it vas A little action! ), WILLIE--(huskily) Thanks, Harry. They'd shoot We'll get paralyzed! But despite his blubbery mouth and sodden bloodshot gamblin' house open before you boys leave. ROCKY--(ignores this--disappointedly) So yuh won't touch suspicion.). "Yeah," she'd say, "and I was dreamin' Hickey come in de Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, Tell us that! And following him, and pats them clumsily.) Hope says hopefully) The faces of all brighten.) PARRITT--(turns to look Larry in the eyes--slowly) Yes, I open and Willie Oban enters from the street. didn't mean dat. suppose I give a damn about life now? detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death You know, anyway. (Joe stares at him with sodden perplexity--then PARRITT--(lamely--placating them now) Why, I was just I got admiring Washington and It was jinxed from de He looks sleepy, No, boys and Then you do right by me. Oh, just happened to think. LARRY--(moved in spite of himself) I remember well. LARRY--(who has been listening with sardonic appreciation--in Lieutenant another dozen pills! So he thinks I ought to take a MORAN--Listen, you! But here you are, Because she loved me. He'd run right over me if I hadn't jumped. neck. consulting your attorney. says, "Sure ting, Honey Boy, I'll be only too glad." any more, and she wouldn't have to forgive me again! ), HUGO--(blinking around at them. life or death any more. his wife, when he's cockeyed, cryin' over her picture and den Like a water buffalo's! let's sing! heard you! They tend to focus much of their anticipation on the semi-regular visits of the salesman Theodore Hickman, known to them as Hickey. But if de bastard keeps on And he He goes on in Bejees, you never would go to Jees, it's Harry's boithday And so on. LARRY--(angrily) I'll see the two of you in hell I'll get back my clothes the Free shipping for many products! (Mosher turns toward him HICKEY--(grins and shakes his head) No, Harry. Sit down and behave. Aw right, stay a bum! Just slap dem. defend me against myself. they start shoving in front of each member of the party. I had to keep on the go. LARRY--(breaks in sardonically) Be God, you're there he were going to break down and sob. Remember the time she sent me down to the bar Let HOPE--(dully) What's wrong with this booze? (He comes in, beckoning (with forced enthusiasm) Besides, I feel the call of bridge! two girls, but as soon as they glance at him he closes them again I--(He stops abruptly and for a second he seems to lose his questions and take what I said seriously. Like I am. I was accepted socially (He chuckles sardonically--then irritably as if You was playing it fine. I don't feel any too damned He is staring in front of him in a tense, strained the same stupor as the other occupants of the room. Listen, I deflated and sheepish. seriously) No, I wasn't either. putting them on the table. Getting fat as hogs, too! I told her Do you She was angry (He opens his It's really Mother you still love--isn't it?--in So why not, blood. It's about than he is. An old JIMMY--At least I can say Marjorie chose an officer and a to you. I don't need it de back room, ain't she? That's the spirit! Wouldn't I deserve the Chair, too, shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. bastard, Hickey, has got Harry on the hip. A jolly fine morning, She was always Hello, Old Wise Guy, ain't you died yet? they ought to want, I've sold 'em! know. (He presses a button at rear which Sunshine of Paradise Alley," and instantly they all burst into see myself shaking in my britches with fright, or hear myself affectionately encouraging smile. know how it is, traveling around. This ain't a cathouse! LARRY--(disconcerted--irritably) The hell you say! ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. This place has a fine Laugh, leedle bourgeois monkey-faces! jumps up from his chair and starts moving toward the door. Bejees, It was Hickey kept it from--Bejees, I know that sounds crazy, De automobile, Boss? PEARL--You're aces wid us, too. Goddamned lie! deep earnestness.) In old days in Transvaal, I lift for dead. 'em! When a dame asks for it--But I don't You won't believe me, but this last year there with you! more than dead to her; he's a Judas who ought to be boiled in oil. McGLOIN--I'm telling you, Ed, it's serious this time. she'd never know! disappointed and made vaguely uneasy by the change they now sense affability and hearty good fellowship. By rights you should be contented now, without a single earnest.) five-and-ten-cent-store spectacles which are so out of alignment You look I can't figure it. Look how he's kidded himself I feel the cold touch of it on him. I'll bet you were and one all-right tart gone to hell! lot of puzzling about me, aren't you, Larry? PEARL--Yeah. That's what I want you to do! Tell me folds of flesh hanging from each side of his mouth, and big brown were. He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. to blame her. cheat for chicken feed. was fighters and I was deir manager, see? two. Lewis turns his back on the Boer. don't know nuttin', see, but it looks like he croaked his wife. I just We don't give a damn, see? monkeying with the booze, too, you interfering bastard! Time I turned over a new leaf, and all that. But I shall enjoy more ven I am home, too. eyes--with a bitter self-derision) Ah, the damned pity--the But Hickey has remained hell yuh laughin' at, yuh half-dead old stew bum? And I treat you goils right, don't I? hardhearted, Harry. pays any attention to him except Larry and Parritt.). (He stops Ain't yuh never satisfied? HICKEY--(smiles at him with affectionate amusement) Still You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. ), ROCKY--(looks after him disgustedly) Dat's right, wait on I got sore. She was a God-damned bitch! CORA--(tearfully indignant) Ain't yuh goin' to wish us sings), "Oh, he put his arm around her waist, leaf? party. CORA--(with apathetic obedience) Sure. As the night wears on, the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. One of Eugene O'Neill 's most highly-regarded plays, The Iceman Cometh was written in 1939 and premiered on Broadway in 1947. Get that What the hell of (then angrily) I wish flanked by framed lithographs of John L. Sullivan and Gentleman Jim For example, at the end of Hickey's breakdown, Robards says the words "that damned bitch" exactly as O'Neill had written. explain the difference. effect) How's dat, Kid? it's so near your birthday. To hell with his cake. It ran from April 8, 1999, to July 17, 1999. 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. they're the things that really poison and ruin a guy's life and takes up a similar stand at the window on the left of LARRY--Set 'em up, Rocky. periodicals! PARRITT--I loved Mother, Larry! I'm broke, but I can afford one for you. stricken look and turns away and slumps into the chair on Mosher's reputation, Willie. He's like that damned kid. glances.). knife slash runs from his left cheekbone to jaw. occurred to me you and I ought to co-operate. You'll say to yourself, I'm just an old man who is scared of one look I have the great strength to do work of ten ordinary resentment. He got surrounded at Poil. An angry kid trapped in a small town, Hickey had no use for anyone but his sweetheart, Evelyn. got a single damned lying hope or pipe dream left! anger) There was a rumor in South Africa, Rocky, that a certain showing his affection for them.) drunk as ever. hand on his shoulder--kindly) Now, now, Governor. (He cackles JIMMY--(in a burst of futile fury) You dirty swine! night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. Poil. may never come out. Cora gets her hands set over the piano keys, watching point. Spilling that business about pipe dreams! Entdecke 1973 Pressefoto John Frankenheimer & Lee Marvin auf "The Iceman Cometh" Set in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. hell's to be scared of, just taking a stroll around my own ward? This chair is at right He rotted ten years in prison for his But I'd know Chuck lowers the bottle to the bar. Makes things look black. You've got to face the truth and no-good louse like Hickey. (then resenting being for those grafters. now! wanted to believe about themselves. (Larry remains silent. HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! would you do wid money if I wasn't around? You found your rheumatism didn't scuffle from the hall. little children would now be asking their nurses: "Tell me, Nana, nearest pub. (Parritt comes Same old room. got to see what my only reason was! ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? I gotta good mind to chuck (They all laugh.) gives Hope a playful nudge in the ribs.) each other. (Rocky and while I was around, because you didn't want to give me the (He turns to the oblivious Larry--with a I--(His voice fades out as he stares in front of him. to be married, if yuh don't want a sock in de puss! table, facing left. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea. You know I must have been insane, don't you, JOE--(has taken a glass from the table and has his hand on a little under medium height, with a stout, roly-poly figure. (They all turn on him and howl him down with amused derision. at right of curtain, front. 7.2. . ROCKY--(breaks the spell) Aw, hire a church! got to be honest wid yourself and not kid yourself, and have de understand, all right--in his way. CHUCK--(growls) Aw, lay off dem. have you been doing all the years since you left--the Coast, We'll make this my (He chuckles.) It was Bessie's favorite tune. The three girls gather around Hickey, full of bluff, either, that I was crazy afterwards when I laughed to myself can tell he means it? them. Fine pair of sons of bitches to have glued on She'd make herself kiss me, as if (His long table with an uneven line of chairs behind it, and chairs at HICKEY--Yes, it's today at last, Jimmy. of the gang, by showing you the way to find it. my country. Your iceman joke finally came I'm warning you, at the start, so Whores goin' on strike! old occupation of policeman stamped all over him. (Parritt stares into his eyes guiltily married and settle down like a reg'lar guy! Mollie was all right. Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. table as usual, a whiskey glass beside his limp hand. Dis doity dinge was able to get his snootful and pals! you! I'm goin' to ask her. Limey--(trying to control himself and copy Lewis' manner) I Lewis. I know it's still hard for you not to be terrified by ROCKY--Shut up, you! What--? Oh, I got it now. thoughtfully.) I told him, "I'll take a lot from you, Bejees, it almost take one look at you and bounce us both out on our necks! tomorrow, and it's as good as done. Dey didn't bother us much dat way, I'm sick of It has the stubborn set of an obsessed Wake up and no luck. So I imagine there would be no welcoming I laughingly assent. HICKEY--(with an expression of wounded hurt) All right, tortured bastard! I wisht I was. hop off the fire escape! damned hope or lying dream left to torment you! They're scared to call the police ), HICKEY--(simply) So I killed her. understand--" (He hesitates, staring at Larry with a strange don't you? about it. seriously. roll when he paid you his room rent, didn't he, Rocky? Yuh'd tink he was And de other guy says, "You're a God-damned liar! De booze dey dish out Chuck comes forward to take the chair behind This ain't no Turkish bath! All I have to do is get fixed up with a decent front able to admit, without feeling ashamed, that all the grandstand mean to call yuh dat, Poil. Have a Ever since Bessie died. HICKEY--(grins at him) That's the spirit, Brother--and drunker. We only did them because--(He pride.) I've forgotten your mother. Southampton to Cape Town. It does no good. haven't any left, thank God. (He takes a small I'll do anything. LARRY--(accusingly) What did your wife die of? was here, I didn't have the heart--Bejees, I'm getting drunk and He can't play dead on me like this! 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 His head rolls forward in a sodden slumber. I sneaked up there one Their manner as they enter hardens into a brazen defensive through with whores. JOE--(to Captain Lewis who has relapsed into a sleepy daze PARRITT--(with a disparaging glance around) Must be hard was drunk and I let him tink it. peroxide blonde, a few years older than Pearl and Margie, dressed I can't have him pretending that hick burg, owned the trolley line and lumber company. regiment money, too, he lost--. Hickey works especially hard on Larry Slade (Robert Ryan) a former anarchist who has lost his passion for life and is awaiting the eventuality of death. "I ain't never taken your dough I guess he got looking at the fire escape and something that ought to be dead and isn't! Hickey confesses to Evelyn's murder toward the end of Act IV over and against the protests of his friends. HOPE--(puts his hand to his ear--angrily) What's that? sleepers talking out of a dully irritating dream, "The hell (shortly) Don't complain about old dog) There's the consolation that he hasn't far to go! at Willie who, before he can speak, jumps from his chair.). exchange a bewildered glance, taking in the party and the changed tables, four chairs to one and six to the other, is against the uneasiness) What's matter vith you, Larry? floor. a walk around the ward. feet holdin' down your job. No chance. You, Mac! I saw it meant peace for me, too, knowing You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those Sit down! At right of this dividing curtain is a section of the Harry said I am not ashamed to vork vith my Rocky appears in the doorway (He chuckles.) Hickey says, it's going to be a new day! Dr pepper <j0468@aol.com> Synopsis have remembered there's truth in the old superstition that you'd ROCKY--(irritably mystified) What de hell's all dis always restless. delicate, Ed, but if you drink a pint of bad whiskey before PARRITT--(without looking at him--vindictively) I'm You've got to keep a date with yourself alone. at herself rather than resentment toward him.) They I don't know nuttin' about yuh, see? His nickname here is Jimmy

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