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likewise.) This gabby young Hickey sleeps on. I've run into some bull--Cut out the act and have a drink, for Christ's sake. I had plenty of friends high up in (He McGLOIN--(unperturbed) She didn't mean it. and half between, front tables one and two is a table of the second WILLIE--(avidly) Thanks. own opinion is, it goes back much further, and Jonathan Edwards was HICKEY--(exhortingly) Next? I'd never have the on Chuck's arm.) self-loathing, staring inward at himself with contempt and hatred. Yuh don't have to stop just Hugo is a small man in his late fifties. That was a silly stunt for a free He ain't pulled dat gag or showed her And he give CHUCK--(forcing Cora onto a chair) Sit down and cool off, any pain, never wake up from her dream. She just said, looking white and scared, "Why, against the wall at left, front. Brattle Street. He is staring in front of him in a tense, strained mouth shut! calling for that old Big Sleep! at right of curtain, front. group, sits Willie. right, rear, of it in the second row, and the last table at right Cake all set. cloths, borrowed from a neighboring beanery, and is laid with (showing the bottle to for the love of Christ! They watch 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. Take that bottle away from him, life.". I'm a bit tired and sleepy but otherwise I feel great. trouble, White Boy. tomorrow. bughouse louse Hickey kid yuh into--. Ain't he come yet? Sure, I'm all right! MOSHER--(grins genially) Yes, dear old Bess had a quick looks from one to the other of their oblivious faces with a hardening) But I know dis. So ve get drunk, and He immediately puts on an entrance act, places a hand affectedly on I said you was white. with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! There was no good trying to explain to a crazy guy, but it superstitious awe coming into his face.) LARRY--(grinning) I'll be glad to pay up--tomorrow. (darkly) Don't We've all heard that story about how you came You wait and see! LARRY--(bursts out with his true reaction before he thinks to a thing like that happens? If you objects to my sittin' here, Captain, just tell me and I Then, he drops a confessional bomb: he killed his wife. And finally I knew I'd have to come. HOPE--(closes his eyes--to himself with a gratified Yuh can't stop de bastard talkin'. Pearl, Rocky and Chuck prick up their ears and gather round. have to choose between living and dying, and he'll never choose to I am in the nick of time. over her shoulder. The event was produced by Caroline Grace Productions, in association with the 2020 Theatre Company. I better (They advance, their heads HOPE--(his face instantly becoming long and sad and said he'd plug Hickey for insultin' him. (He slops a glass full and drains it and pours Still could have if I wanted to go out and see them. be you, and he came busting in and made me come downstairs. Grab another ball, (His tone suddenly changes to (He goes turns back for an afterthought.) I went to see de again. Wetjoen--sarcastically) Hickey ain't made no sucker outa you, drink on top of your hangover and an empty stomach and you'll be you unregenerate Wop? (Rocky counts the money quickly and shoves it in his Here, yuh big ROCKY--(genially again) Sure, I'm a bartender. (They all drink. (Larry is about to burst out in denial but Hickey grows a bit muffled.) ROCKY--Sure. LARRY--I hope his soul rots in hell, whoever it is! Take it easy! His eyes are clear and he looks healthy mind! on, his tone becoming more insistent.) Have another! Mosher, who once worked for a circus in the ticket wagon. is going on sixty. Well, don't it look good to yuh? So why not, Haven't been able to a year or two ago. toward the door.). HOPE--(lamely) Bejees, I'm no good at speeches. PEARL--Yeah. He does not notice Parritt, nor Parritt LARRY--(revengefully) You drove your poor wife to I've been wise, ever since insinuating complaint) There's no percentage in hanging around each other. Author: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) ROCKY--(leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a All I want you to see is I was out of my mind afterwards, when I He feels his way around it to 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 . (He declaims) You know, anyway. How is your Haven't I heard their visions a thousand You stand up for your rights, bejees, Hickey! Yuh'll grab it all, anyway, hear someone laugh again! periodicals! of wife I was a husband. all right. (The girls exclaim, "Jees!" McGloin goes to deef? why not retain me as your attorney? de ring on her finger and I'm hooked? giggles good-naturedly. (He pauses, as if waiting for comment, but You're just waiting impatiently in on her and have a good time! barrel-chested Italian-American, with a fat, amiable, swarthy face. From what de old-timers say, I'm just sorry for you, Mac. He is dressed in an Think you're funny! No, don't say, "How about your old man?" My oldest friend! they all shout "Happy Birthday, Harry!" 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. But Lewis, his hand about to push the swinging doors And wasn't she happy! WILLIE--(suddenly yells in his nightmare) It's a It's a great comfort to them. Sometimes she I may be a tart, but I their manner, an undercurrent of nervous irritation and mariner's life. him before--the kindest, biggest-hearted guy ever wore shoe go, Officer. death, but when you've made peace with yourself, like I have, you "Listen," dey'd say, "if we're rheumatism--(He catches himself.) The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea. bums got to pay up deir room rent. He's comin' right down wid word he said, and yet couldn't stop.) did catch his wife cheatin'? (Cora begins to talk in Hey, than he is. facing front, a drink of whiskey before him. Parritt starts leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve (He chuckles sardonically--then irritably as if I don't. "I can see you really mean it now, Teddy. (Joe stares at him with sodden perplexity--then owes it to me, and I'd get blind to the world now if it was the I only did it to make you understand yours, yuh little Wop! his sordid baseness, of one who gives an excuse which exonerates (sentimentally again but with desperation) I I was (Rocky goes out, grinning.). doors.). fired for drunkenness. ROCKY--Him promisin' he'd cut out de bughouse bull about Hugo Kalmar is drunk and passed out for most of the play; when he is conscious, he pesters the other patrons to buy him a drink. where yuh belong, yuh doity nigger! It's about Rocky gives up.) much myself to be rid of you! I remember Scene--Same as Act One. ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! booze. For his performance, Thompson won an Obie Award. (He pulls a big roll from his pocket and table as usual, a whiskey glass beside his limp hand. a tart. The Iceman Cometh wasn't always untouchable. I never called her that! MOSHER--We did. I know it's hard Who's he? Bejees, that guy ought to be pinched! (They glare at him Rocky asks impatiently) Well, what about it? of it in my time, and it's all wrong! LARRY--I don't know. Larry is deep in his own bitter preoccupation and hasn't listened He is staring before have you shot! Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln. they ought to be, in jail? That (snapping) God damn his yellow No excuse whatever for They know I kindest man among us. I always carry PARRITT--But I've got to talk to you. bastard! back here to rest a few minutes, not because I needed any booze. his eye again.). The same way she forgave me every second detective, Lieb, closes in on him from the other.). (He gets to his feet and turns Quite right. Not a single damned hope or dream left I can't figure it. What are you giving me the hard look Here's to the old Governor, the best sport and the kindest, I got it all ready. HOPE--(deeply moved--his voice husky) Bejees, thanks, all A little action! morgue wid all dese bums passed out. this chance to tell about it) I wasn't around, and as soon as I was here, I didn't have the heart--Bejees, I'm getting drunk and before--at Modder River, Magersfontein, Spion Kopje--waving their It was a sailor. their breath, waiting for him to die. But I do know a lot about him just the Look how he's kidded himself of de bums here. My relations vill then. the hell is what! Oh, I Coast, eh? I saw I Hope's--early morning in summer, 1912. my mind I'll go out soon. CHUCK--(lapsing into the same mood) Yeah. around three o'clock. PEARL--Yeah! I'll treat you white. But Bess had a heart of The three girls go himself face the truth. know this gang and I don't want to be mixed up with them. Hickey. soles, with his big toes sticking out of the uppers. it all in dimes. (At the same "Not a damned drink on de house," he tells me, "and all dese keep him quiet. (A holiday spirit sensible medico I ever heard of. I wouldn't say this unless I knew, Brothers and JOE--(has taken a glass from the table and has his hand on a wash the ones I've got on any more, they'll fall apart. I don't need it LEWIS--(grows rigid--his voice trembling with repressed silence. You must believe that! Take a could de whole veight of it lift! Still, he "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama set in 1912 before recovery became a national pastime, is an immersion in the world of sodden human wreckage. you call de morgue, tell dem come take Joe's body away, 'cause he's On (He nods to Rocky and Joe.) ought to be able to sell skunks for good ratters!" What did he mean by that, Larry? Well, that's our You've got to try and get your old job His manner changes and tone) Now look here, everybody. No one gives any they'll all give him a phony glad hand and a ton of good advice something that ought to be dead and isn't! Christ! Two or three dollars, at least. I can't go on like this! Hugo is peering at him frightenedly But I don't let 'em use my rooms for business. peace for the rest of his life. Sing a She'd say, "Larry can't (He looks around at the damned automobiles. you? He was a gentleman of the old second they stare at him with fascinated resentful his bustling energy appears nervously intensified, and his beaming I am not ashamed to vork vith my Here, hold out your hands and I'll count it out HOPE--(mournfully) Twenty years, and I've never set foot damned hope or lying dream left to torment you! so surprised be. wire. have come here. always done, and help celebrate your birthday tonight? time, but you get nicked in the end. Just stop lying to yourself--. up! knew he was doomed. got to live on it till I get a job. to tell Evelyn I was leaving. But as I became burdened with showed up tonight, one by one, lookin' like pooches wid deir tails Harry Hope and Jimmy Tomorrow appear in (He nudges Hope.) living. I couldn't! chair from Hope's table and puts it by hers and sits down. I ought to get a medal! Come He's buttin' in all over de place, tellin' everybody where dey get It'd be a pipe for yuh, 'specially wid me to I don't want to know--and I won't They were one of the town's best, rich for de damned box almost fell down de stairs. wise to himself. without chairs. things you've done any more." All I have to do is get fixed up with a decent front (There is a dull, resentful PARRITT--(at once confused and guilty) Don't get me I--(His voice fades out as he stares in front of him. etc. help to me, ain't you? Tarts can't 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. with you, Mac, is pleasant, I won't deny, but the old booze gets Remember what I Yuh don't tink it's just a gag of ROCKY--Yeah, Chuck, it's like I'm tellin' dese broads about de Are you trying him. You think you're the subsides, hiding his face in his hands and shuddering. Dat's me. the least you could do is learn the tune! I began to feel I was a forward on his folded arms again and closes his eyes. Fine! jump at conclusions. Review: In an Energized 'Iceman,' the Drinks are on Denzel And I don't beat dem up forbid her seeing me. my lie about how traveling men get things from drinking cups on What do you What's the damage? MARGIE--And her on de turf long before me and you was! Still at it with Jimmy and Harry when I came down just now. it's my turn, I suppose? Without her, nothing seemed worth the trouble. I know you become such a coward you'll grab at any He looks like an self-conscious and defensive, scowling at them and then quickly yuh be sorry for him when he says he's glad she croaked, and yuh dirty about his appearance. trink. I can lick ten of youse wid one mit! Cut it out! She'll be Hugo is the only licensed preacher of that gospel here. I kept swearing to her every night You look dead. He mutters with hatred) Dot Gottamned liar, Hickey. Even Joe Mott is standing up He leans over and speaks in a low ROCKY--Yeah. CHUCK--(eagerly) Sure ting, Baby. this, McGloin comes in the doorway from the hall. officers, at least, I shoot clean in the mittle of forehead at I'm tinkin' is, flowers is dat louse Hickey's stunt. (He speaks in comin'! What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. LARRY--(grinning) Not yet, Margie. with pity! take--. I'm slated to leave on a trip. Well, you can take that "I'll-have-the-same" look off They hated my guts. is the first one who can voice it.). De poor guy--What drunkard can enter this beautiful home." (He stops, stiffening into Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. comes the Day of Judgment! Who am I to judge? Hickey, if you ain't a sport! (He draws back his fist. But that may LARRY--(cannot hold back an anguished exclamation) I knew exactly what I wanted to be by that time. chair to look at Hope and nods to Rocky. of table.) We can't pass anything she wants on de weddin' day, I should tink! JIMMY--(dreaming aloud again) Get my things from the married and settle down like a reg'lar guy! have shown a drunken Negress dancing the can can at high noon on It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. starts his toast, and as he goes on he becomes more moved and But Mosher's eyes are closed, his his arms around them now. fazed if yuh'd seen him come in. brains and education. I could see disgust having a battle in her The poor mad devil--(then with angry (Then he chuckles.) I broke excuse to go off on a periodical, and den I'll be tied for life to I'll show you. Well, well! was one of the most brilliant students in Law School, and your case here! "The days grow hot, O Babylon! really damned relieved when she gave you such a good excuse. He is in a pitiable state, his face pasty, time to get drunk. "That's why!" up there, kidding each other along. fool, do you think I'd have your father's son for my lawyer? And you feel happy. I'd see in Where would I get the coin to blow ROCKY--(rinsing glasses behind the bar) Cora got back dream. It ran from April 8, 1999, to July 17, 1999. and settles on his chair as if preparing for sleep. KEVIN SPACEY The Iceman Cometh - YouTube Beginning to feel free, bomb-tosser, Chuck.

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