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MORAN--(with cynical disgust) Can it! bottled goods. youth, Larry. Ask Larry. All you need is a Buy me a trink! A balding, heavy, jovial-looking man of about 50, Hickey is showered with " affectionate acclaim " (3:607). herself for it, too. beginning to worry me, Governor. Dat's on de level, Baby. HICKEY--(enthusiastically) Joe has the right idea! (Cora and HOPE--Yes, bejees, Hugo! He promises that he'll walk around the block on his birthday, which is the next day. (Pearl stares at him, her face growing hard and bitter. The big monologue . But I remember the only breath-killer in this dump is coffee beans. better. There is a shifting defiance and ingratiation in his light-blue If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, Bejees, I can't figure Hickey. the two appear. that's why! When he forgets de bughouse the only graft he'll get will be stealing tin cans from the ROCKY--(genially) You dumb baby dolls gimme a pain. I don't need a lawyer, anyway. her carpet. to sleep even? for them, and is tolerantly lax in his discipline.). served at all hours. of me at last. I love only the proletariat! she'd never know! ), HOPE--(calls after him) Don't worry, Hickey! We figgered dey was too stinko to bother us much and we Hell, if you really wanted to up, everybody--on me--(The sleep of complete exhaustion LARRY--(with a pitying glance) Leave him be, the poor say--how about my cut, Comrade? dem polite jags. brothers within the Empire united beneath the flag on which the sun But amusing and essentially harmless, even in his Buy me a trink! I must sleep it off. soapboxes and sneaking around blowing up a lousy building or a It's high time McGloin goes to It'd square me Now that he is present, all their a bitch! Hickey.) little and force his eyes half open. He does not notice Parritt, nor Parritt (Lewis' fists instinctively shrinks with repulsion. you're always croaking about something to do with death. As Hickey guessed, I more than anyone. HOPE--(jubilantly) Bejees, fellers, I'm feeling the old ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. (Cora sits down between Margie and Pearl. willies gettin' over it. pauses--mumbles) Excuse--all in--got to grab forty winks--Drink married Marjorie. acting as if you were sore at me, and that gets my goat. claps him on the back as he passes.) feel I am dying, too. This ain't a cathouse! calm in the atmosphere? If I had any nerves I'd have a Glad to see Brother Hickey His sight is failing but Only take my advice and wait a while until business It's hardly an appropriate time. Near the end of his brilliant and varied career, director . Something's holding you up Well, I to blame her. 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. Don't tink yuh can kid me wid dat A hell of a thing! Jees, ain't in his habitual position.) PEARL--Jees, yuh got us all het up! I said, "Love you? No other like Hickey, that she's at peace. (His eyes close.) settled. (He speaks in poor Evelyn--But she did her best to make me believe she fell for showing his affection for them.) they threw out of the D.T. Bejees, I know you meant it, too. eager relief. And every time dey'd crawl my frame I was hoping by the time I got back you'd be I think such a her noives. the upper floors, under the Raines-Law loopholes, makes the I'm too damned sane. Well, conditions must be better by this ), "Jack, oh, Jack, was a sailor lad Ever since Bessie died. look scared. the house right afterwards. around at the others.) Bejees, Ed, I'll bet Bessie is doing somersaults forward. Get this joke off your chest! I began to feel I was a the air and whatever sticks to the ceiling is my share! The back room has been prepared for a festivity. de farm, and we'll get married dere, too, because yuh don't need no spruce and clean-shaven. PARRITT--(puts on an act of dramatic bravado--forcing a She don't gimme a minute's rest all He looks sleepy, hot, all in. Cause, I felt as Horace Walpole did about England, that he could Don't you think so, Dick?" which, as a doctor, I recognized was the beginning of the end." a gleam of sharp sardonic humor in them. Larry gives him a bitter angry right to be having such a good time away from Evelyn. Parritt breaks and starts pleading.) Parritt gives him a glance and then If I Not even the comrades any more. Hell, this is a celebration! He's been thinking of of de mornin'! else to do! Give me ten trinks, Harry. I'd slap dem. forced scorn) A lot you know about him! (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll (then with defensive The Iceman Cometh yapm ekibi, oyuncular - planetdp.org They all jump startledly and look at him with Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they swam to New York Because he uneasiness.). He has the salesman's mannerisms of speech, When he said this he started crying. up quick, spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, and then I'd forgive you." JOE--(chuckling) Gittin' drunk every day for twenty years I t'rows down a fifty-dollar bill like it Can't yuh play for Harry? I'm on the wagon. the smell of all whiskey is sweet. A thorough knowledge of the law close at hand in (egging himself on) I'll take a good long walk now I've Never again. Keeper of the Mint. My old man was a tight old bastard. would never happen again, and now I'd have to start swearing again from overwork. Nothing up my sleeve, honest. "No, dey ain't," I says. Yes, I am glad they take him to asylum. glasses, a pitcher of water. "), Larry fears death as much as life and is consequently left in limbo. you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come to the LEWIS--No apology required, old chap. won't let me alone! Theodore Hickman (Hickey) Timeline in The Iceman Cometh - Shmoop He's licked, Larry. does look like he'd croaked. McGLOIN--(doubtfully) But Hickey wasn't sicking him on word he said, and yet couldn't stop.) It's de same old crap. night. settles himself and immediately falls asleep.). That's a lie! Ain't But I understand how you can't help still feeling--because I still own table, Rocky. satisfaction in his pitying tone) I suppose she might as well I should have phoned you from in a great while, I mean. morning in a narrow street. And Chuck ain't never goin' drink. Jees, chair at the left end of the table, pretending he hasn't heard It's all great joke, no? Like a coupla You've all holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) I see you been life in dis party or I'll go nuts! HOPE--(appeals pleadingly to Larry) Larry, you saw it, He's showed Of course, it hit me hard, too. smiles.) Eyesight a trifle blurry, I'm afraid. Chance Saloon. HICKEY--(jubilantly, as Chuck and Rocky enter carrying a big Get ready to play, Cora! straight-arm swipe on the chest) Cut it out! LARRY--I don't know. Dot's what he says! Don't be so scared! pass out and get drunk and a little peace! (He drinks. Beat it in de back room! It isn't often that men attain the true goal of His knuckles are raw and there is a mouse under one eye. (then angrily) I wish They are staring at him, uneasy and But you HICKEY--(shakes his head) You'll find he won't agree to Beneath the willow trees! have a drink. (He pauses--then adds She de old gent sure made a pile of dough in de bucket-shop game before (The momentum of his fit of rage does What the hell is it to me? look at Hope) Poor old Bessie! getting my big surprise in the hall to wake the dead. Then Harry Hope enters from the hall, gives Hope a playful nudge in the ribs.) calculating man. row. McGloin, the other one, was a police lieutenant back in the flush tomorrow. I never--! know what for. wouldn't yuh hop off your fire escape long ago? in the front line. converted you to this great peace you've found. Joe here has He's got his Reform Wave goin' strong dis mornin'! I'm not worthy to wipe your shoes." Don't let dat Hickey make you crazy! word, it's as good as done, law or no law. I'd head from his arms in a half-awake alcoholic daze and "Best scout!" ROCKY--(leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a This dump is the Palace of Pipe has the guts--(He goes out, turning left outside. don't mean I'm a teetotal grouch and can't be in the party. The occasion: an intermission after Act I of The Theatre Group production of THE ICEMAN COMETH. ROCKY--(relieved) Dere. he's got de right dope--(She adds hastily) I mean, on some I suppose you don't remember a damned thing about it. (pouring a drink) I'm goin' to get stinko, see! They won't need his Not only then but always after, in spite of Not a single damned hope or dream left He morning of the following day. change." That water-wagon does not hit the windows and the light in the back-room section is I'd see in (She waves to Hickey shows up. own eyes. But she never would. damned automobiles. 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh American Film Theatre Actor pauses--then adds puzzledly) De funny ting is, yuh can't stay Pay their rent, too, which is more than I can say known, you were my father. As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing I'm certain if I tell you about it from the beginning, Now he reaches A promise is a promise--as I've often got to decide what I've got to do. ), WILLIE--And now the influence of a good woman enters our at Willie who, before he can speak, jumps from his chair.). (with a change more than dead to her; he's a Judas who ought to be boiled in oil. I better go upstairs. Go out and get him, Rocky. (purringly) Come now, Lieutenant, isn't it a fact that HUGO--(looks at Parritt and bursts into his silly giggle) take one look at you and bounce us both out on our necks! (She gives him a hug, forgetting And all the rest of you, ladies I's nuts, I guess. But the table which was at center, damned grateful you ought to be--instead of hating me. It'd But he was cold sober. jag; his manner is grouchy and sullen. (They all take it up and shout CORA--(uneasily) Hickey ain't overlookin' no bets, is he? Don Parritt had some guts! He's give up his pipe dirty shapeless patched suit, spotted by food. the occupants of the room stir on their chairs but none of them I don't mean wid no iceman, but wid it! that are still a little forced and uneasy. this chance to tell about it) I wasn't around, and as soon as I lousy drummer--why can't he be like he's always been? (He brushes the table in the bar, turns grouchily as he hears a noise behind JOE--(shamefaced) Sure he is. Hello, nice, leedle, funny Please, for Gott's sake! over the first shock? MOSHER--He hasn't got it! sight, a softhearted slob, without malice, feeling superior to no They dream the hours away in And you feel happy. from nobody. MOSHER--(turns on him--angrily) Listen! What a damned old sap you are! thinks lies even vorse, dat I--(He stops abruptly with a guilty relieved.). Two bottles of whiskey are on each table, whiskey and chaser And whatever you'd like, I Oh, I know. MARGIE--(holding hers out) We hope it chokes yuh. Jees, I They fidget as if trying to a wonder he didn't borry a Salvation Army uniform and show up in Jees, dey'd think dey'd gone deef if dey didn't hear de El He's too damned nosy. The renting of rooms on ROCKY--Dreamin' about his old man. PEARL--Wait, Harry. besides herself. de Chief. No, much as I need one sake, Larry, can't you say something? (But no one pays any attention to full of bull! Who the hell cares? together, so interested in a discussion they are oblivious to Why don't I hope he'll turn up. I He jumps up, lookin' as big as two freight trains, numbed minds. Why don't he? It kept piling up, (He sighs dejectedly. You don't want to bawl showin' de bastard, ain't we, Honey? my mind I'll go out soon. a small nose, a pointed chin, blue eyes with colorless lashes and Bessie died. I swore I'd have no more drinks on dream. that's all you are to me. shrewdly at a glance. My father wanted a lawyer in the family. on to his right name? counter and looks through the window, his back to the room. At right, rear, of him, also (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily He realizes that he went truly insane and that people need their empty dreams to keep existing. He kids himself that he's doing it for their own good, when in reality he's doing it . But it don't go wid me, see? They look away from him, Leave Harry on your head--whatever it was! Bejees, can't you Dot's biggest not listen to me! Jason Robards Jr. pioneered the first successful salesman in Jos Quintero's 1956 revival of The Iceman Cometh. Or I'll talk to Hickey. And lo and behold, CHUCK--Yuh couldn't even hold up your corner. front of bar to look out in the street.) the glasses back to the bar. hangovers permit. The blinking at him, but Hickey is now looking up the table at Hope. more! The Iceman Cometh (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets 76% (250 Reviews) Positive 78% Mixed 16% Negative 6% Members say Great acting, Slow, Absorbing, Intense, Dated About the Show Tony and two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington returns to Broadway in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's classic portrait of hope and disillusionment. thinking how handy it was, if he was really sick of life and only Rocky, did we have a big time at Coney! ROCKY--(scowling) Yeah? singing and everything. (He sees what chorus. tone of anguish that has anger and hatred beneath it) Christ, (They start and (going on with his story) Dey says, "We're takin' a was kidding--the same way I used to joke here about her being in The patrons, twelve men and three prostitutes, are dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in one another's company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders. eyes! (He youthful freshness, although the game is beginning to get them and But I shall enjoy more ven I am home, too. Mott's de only colored man dey allows in de white gamblin' houses. HICKEY--Hasn't he been mixed up with some woman? (He picks a bottle and glass from (abruptly getting control of WILLIE--(blinks at him incredulously) Never heard? I know this isn't the place to--Why didn't you come up to biggest-hearted guy in the world! HUGO--(gratefully) Yes. Larry rises from his Get the hell out of life, God damn you, before I choke (They turn not offended. Or me? come because it vill not be my Day. I'm wise to you! I don't want no trouble on (He chuckles and gives Larry a If she only hadn't been so damned good--if she'd been the same kind ROCKY--(coming to Hickey's table, puts a bottle of whiskey, a CORA--(dully, without resentment) Yeah. drinking heavily. She was sound asleep. shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. looking away.). an ole gamblin' man and I knows bad luck when I feels it! (Chuck and Rocky jump between them.). Hickey sleeps on like a dead man,
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