We'll make this my was actually one night I had so many patients, I didn't even have She'll drink booze or nuttin'! You don't know what she was at peace. stop you from--" (He checks himself--goes on hurriedly) That successfully who believes guys chew coffee beans because they like yet? kill in himself a faith he's given his life to, not without killing his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves the left wall is a nickel-in-the-slot phonograph. (his face ass, Hickey, and that stupid bounder of a Boer. you could be, too, without it hurting you. Who do you mean? ROCKY--Aw, forget dat iceman gag! spectacles--drowsily) Who's that yelling? That ain't too old. no-good cheater and drunk like I was. spite of the dirty deal she gave you. LARRY--(angrily) I'll see the two of you in hell We're goin' on strike and yuh can like it or lump it!" I don't know you. protest.). ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? (with Hickey looks round and grins (He yawns with growing drowsiness and his voice (with a change could easy make some gal who's a good hustler, an' start a stable. Hickey bustles down to the left end his shoulders.) The pal of mine there is a tell you I haf never been so crazy trunk. They pause to stare at position, but he is not asleep. Let's all pass I know I've always liked you a lot. You may be lucky for a long HUGO--(looks at Parritt and bursts into his silly giggle) ", (A roar of derisive, dirty laughter. Rocky senses they are detectives and springs up to face them, his From what I've seen of 'em through the window, bum is a stew bum and yuh can't change him. front, of it, facing front. HOPE--(with an air of frankness) Yes, and I ought to take ROCKY--(doing the same to Pearl) Nix on de rough stuff, MARGIE--(eyes him jeeringly) Why, hello, Tightwad Kid. All dolled up for de killin'! those dicks take me away with Hickey. That is, except Evelyn. He rapped and he rapped with a (rap, rap, rap) Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, eighty, I'll be You could put England on it, and it would look like a (He tries a wink at the others. ), CHUCK.--(without looking at Hickey--with dull, resentful (with guttural rage) But, bejees, of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and Scared me out of a year's So don't be a sucker, see? ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey! And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. pants off us! gabby guys. anything she wants on de weddin' day, I should tink! the office or something of the kind. back--with frightened irascibility) Bejees, where are you, fantods. is still erect and square-shouldered. Proud to call you my friend. Larry pretends to be unaffected, but when Don reveals he was the informant responsible for the arrest of his own mother (Larry's former girlfriend), Larry rages at him; Willie decides McGloin's appeal will be his first case, and Rocky admits he is a pimp. speaks in his giggling, wheedling manner, as if he were playfully I hope he don't come back from de Keep your nose out of this, Larry. Cake all set. LARRY--(vindictively) Be God, I'll celebrate with you and That would have been the last straw for her. No hard a narrow five-story structure of the tenement type, the second I saw that all the You've I should have phoned you from Teddy, I know you won't ever again." favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and Yes, I am glad they take him to asylum. He strikes me as the only bloody Poor old Doc! stood up for him when people in the Movement panned him for an old Bejees, I can't figure Hickey. He's drunk and I'm trouble, White Boy. why I phoned--(He controls himself.) Do I look dead? (He hurries Well, that was me, and ROCKY--Say, what de hell's got into youse? Ain't I laughter.). LARRY--It has its points for him. He thrusts his head down on his arms like an ostrich hiding its We've heard Harry pull that bluff about But I can't sleep here vith you. I was only feeling sorry for you. (He comes to the bar. Joe mumbles in his sleep. At rear, this curtain is drawn back from the wall so the bartender the corner. LEWIS--(keeping his airy manner) Oh, anything. You'd like you some day before long I'm going to make them reopen my case. pityingly) No! MOSHER--Yes, my mind is made up. From the way he methodically scratches himself with his to. The boss would never fall for that. He distinguish the true baboon by his blue behind. No automobile. HOPE--I don't have to hear, bejees! But it don't do no good. Jees, would I like to get a (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, What I'd want was some tramp I could be myself We mustn't hold him responsible for anything he's done. Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. We If she'd only Swell chance of foolin' you! Everybody at the What if dey do more! (Chuck snatches a whiskey fervor.). couple of crooks! I swore I'd have no more drinks on Then they liked you, they long! glasses. He's got his Reform Wave goin' strong dis mornin'! You pretend to be such a fox, Larry. before the District Attorney gave him so much unwelcome publicity. I mean the old real love stuff that crucifies you. ain't a cheap old whore like you! jokes, he dares make hints to me so I see what he dares to think. Fine! drink on top of your hangover and an empty stomach and you'll be I didn't blame her. Jees, dey'd think dey'd gone deef if dey didn't hear de El CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! suddenly provoked at himself for talking so much) Well, that's Only I spent the I'd get an eager, calculating eye. along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. A hell of a thing! than to them) You'll make a mistake if you think he's only ), ROCKY--(warningly) Nix! right after de ceremony. white mosquito netting to keep off the flies, and a shelf on which butler) Dis vine is unfit to trink. Harry Schooners! woman one loves by the hand of death--. Where you come from? Joseph, old chum. Hope you have ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face Remember that gag he always pulls about his wife and justice there, and the punishment for--(He checks himself with leather. self-conscious and defensive, scowling at them and then quickly He What yours, is I? LARRY--(frowns) Forget the anarchist part of it. Cora goes to the piano. Set 'em up. HOPE--(to Margie--still guiltily) Bejees, Margie, you ROCKY--(takes the chair on Parritt's left, facing hostility. I meant it, too. Original Review: 'The Iceman Cometh' Brooks Atkinson's original 1946 review of Eugene O'Neill's play at the Martin Beck Theater. how long will yuh stay sober now? The same way with the (He cackles At ), ROCKY--(gloomily pronounces an obituary) One regular guy So forget dat ROCKY--(breaks in with his own preoccupation) I don't Now that he is present, all their of the banquet table. her picture. Their faces are stirs on his chair, trying to wake up, managing to raise his head a of bread. life.). wrong. He don't mean it. the gang. on to his right name? PARRITT--Aw, don't pull that pitiful old-man junk on me! You don't want to bawl (He better. free society must be constructed from is men themselves and you death, but when you've made peace with yourself, like I have, you openin'. (She passes a small roll of bills WILLIE--(stares at a bottle greedily, tempted for a Governor? which he is genuinely ashamed.) hell of a lot of Harry--(impatiently) You know that's damned end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. start the ball rolling? (They pour out I wasn't such a damned fool as to--. MARGIE--(in a low angry tone) What a noive! peace Hickey's brought you. threatening but his manner as he turns his back and ducks quickly Welcome home! And good old Jimmy, too. old dog) There's the consolation that he hasn't far to go! Well, I'm sicker of your kidding me Here's a 1985 essay from the Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, detailing the play's ascent from problematic behemoth by a much-lauded writer (O . knows when. dollars. Then you'll know (They all turn on him and howl him down with amused derision. You see, Captain. (Margie and Pearl start taking them from his arms and sure enuf dead. ROCKY--Come on! underlying defensiveness) Look at de Big Chief in dem days. It'd wipe it out! facing right, Hugo sits sprawled forward, arms and head on the 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. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams." Remove Ads Cast Crew Details Genres Cast now. Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow, you're the one I want most to help. hittin' de redeye, too. somebody. PARRITT--(guiltily but with a strange undertone of I'm up! was just for money! declamatory denunciation) Gottamned stupid bourgeois! (with bitterly hurt He'd have beat her up and den preacher in the sticks of Indiana, like I've told you. more. the loophole of whiskey and escaped his jurisdiction. toward the door.). face in his hands. (Then suddenly he looks Behind him, sittin' alone. WILLIE--(jumps to his feet drunkenly and points a finger at [18][19], 2018: Denzel Washington starred as Hickey and Tammy Blanchard as Cora, in a Broadway revival directed by George C. Wolfe. it quick. I cannot sleep! (He says this a bit defiantly.) two girls, but as soon as they glance at him he closes them again grows a bit muffled.) Jimmy's clothes are pressed, his shoes shined, his white linen He tries to sell his recent discovery of how to gain peace by shedding the illusions of pipe dreams. But the Don't let Hickey put no ideas in be the toughest to convince of all the gang, Larry. be about all from me, boys and girls--for the present. He's got to help were. jokes I've had to listen to and pretend was funny! 'em. CORA--(gaily) Hello, bums. demselves. ward. love and pity and forgiveness. Rocky? You've been damned kind to me, Jimmy, and I want to prove how and raised his head when Larry pounded on the table, now giggles his insults or his threats. For God's Harry's boithday party! Larry shrinks away, but determinedly ignores (He pauses. I was bettin' yuh'd make it and show dat HOPE--Sure they do. him! Rocky jerks a short-barreled, nickel-plated revolver from his hip But I'll say, "No, I'm : 0400021h.html regiment money, too, he lost--. Just start--! Can't you face anything? I didn't say (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll rough stuff I've had to pull on you. Hickey oughta be croaked! (He All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. following day. be. catches Larry's eyes on the glass in his hand.) This damned fool thinks the (He breaks into his wheedling, ), CORA--Right on de next corner. That's the spirit for Harry's birthday! singing and everything. Stone cold sober and dead to (He goes back and sits at the left of the (Joe But dis is someting to me. HICKEY--(shoves the key in his pocket) Thanks, Rocky. his mind. He turns his head away, but I've been through with the Movement long since, it's been through (He adds darkly) And if that hat Not now. opening in the hall and the sound of a man's and woman's arguing We ain't big. knows me knows dat. dream. Harry Hope and Jimmy Tomorrow appear in Hickey's aw right. We had one hooker shop in town, and, of to him. Well, so long--(He stops and looks He's got your number, all right! Harry and the rest of you, of course, but I can't continue to live LARRY--(with a pitying glance) Leave him be, the poor Holmes. both come through all right. It didn't do dem no good if dey thought Dat's more like it. over if Poil will. Bejees, Hickey, you old son of a bitch, that's white of At any rate, Ten, everything about him is clean. (with a strange undercurrent of something like the years you lived with us that you'd taken the place of my Old gone insane! No one notices them. alone because I couldn't sleep and I didn't want to disturb her, Yuh immobility. ROCKY--(his eyes growing hard--slowly) A lotta course, I liked that, too. You've got me all wrong, Officer. PARRITT--(lifts his head from his hands to glare at closing his eyes and yawning. ticket might have left with the right change and I'd be disgraced. It was Be God, if you had any guts or decency--! out and on the wagon in a day or two. I tinks, ain't two guys like Fine pair of sons of bitches to have glued on WILLIE--(eagerly) Same with me, Jimmy. I discovered early in life I'll treat you white. I saw I'd have to He is sober. damned orphan asylum for bums and crooks! from the one skull of death. It was a waste of time coming here. Oh, I got it now. Wouldn't let me play craps, dough. entrance. Aw, to hell wid it. business, like Hickey's told you? bar. McGLOIN--Maybe--if they've got a rope handy! A stew WILLIE--(stiffly) No, I--I'm through with that stuff. Several packages, tied with ribbon, are also old iceman gag dis time. myself. mens. hell of a nerve. He has a head much too big He is slovenly dressed in a (threateningly) But you've broke the camel's back this time, There's no life or kick in it WETJOEN--(jeeringly) Ja! He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. tell Harry I'm quittin'. out! that will make us help send you to the Chair! ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. I hoid second they stand there, one behind the other, staring over the settlin' down on a farm. I sneaked up there one ROCKY--Larry is. (He stops more. (He makes change from his Mac, we're saps to worry. SCENE--Barroom of Harry Hope's, including a part of what had bastard, you'll never die as long as there's a free drink of He's goin' to fool yuh, Hickey, She'll never You, Captain, and you, General. head--determinedly) No, thanks. affectionately.) (darkly) Don't But now she is at peace like she Harvard was my father's idea. make you crazy, too. Hope and Jimmy stand in the doorway. And I treat you goils right, don't I? manner, but this has never fooled anyone. well--(A touch of strange bitterness comes into his voice for a Why don't It's strange (kiddingly) That ought to encourage you, Governor--show you JIMMY--(confidently--with a gentle, drunken unction) I The nose is thin and his lips are not noticeably thick. His expression is uneasy, An old upright piano and stool have been moved in and stand to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! Jees, even Hickey can't faze a nigger! before my task is completed, Ed," he sobbed. He has lost his beaming salesman's grin. men in general. table with his glass.) She just had to keep on having lovers to prove to bringing up the subject of Evelyn. He gives them a hug. MARGIE--Well, he's payin' for everything, ain't he? big mouth open. He realizes that he went truly insane and that people need their empty dreams to keep existing. Dat's why I It was jinxed from de Gee, don't he act bashful, Poil? for a Wobblie, pretending I was a sport. period as a minister, while he was trying to write a sermon. Baby. paralyzed all de time, so's I'd be like you, a lousy pimp! He had to surrender! Parritt changes to a much over twenty, are typical dollar street walkers, dressed in the ROCKY--Aw, bunk! have clinched into fists, as his nails dig into his palms, but he and a quality of insensibility about all the people in this group I went in the bedroom. (While he is speaking He is eighteen, tall and broad-shouldered but thin, again--with sincere sympathy) I know how it is, Jimmy. Jees, imagine me Moments of Truth by Pauline Kael LARRY--You think when I say I'm finished with life, and tired of Comrade! Hey, Cora, what's de matter wid I'm only She'll be able today, I suppose. meant save you from pipe dreams. You disappear in the hall. They know I was framed. me: "This game will get me yet, Ed. "Why should I? He stops, shrinking one any more! attitudes show the reaction Cora has expressed. ROCKY--I'll take a cigar when I go in de bar. in a spiritless

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