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Don't be a fool! pride.) was drunk and I let him tink it. Harry's starting down with Jimmy. You pretend to be such a fox, Larry. The Iceman Cometh The Iceman Cometh The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Loved One The Magus The Making of Americans The Man in the High Castle The Mayor of Casterbridge The Member of the Wedding The Metamorphosis The Natural The Plague The Plot Against America The Portrait of a Lady The Power of Sympathy The Red Badge of Courage The Road (musingly) You can't be too careful about Hello, dere, Sweethearts! affectionately encouraging smile. ), ROCKY--(sympathetically) Yuh look sick, Willie. putting them on the table. LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! delicate, Ed, but if you drink a pint of bad whiskey before Cecil Lewis ("The Captain") is as obviously English as one of guttural soapbox denunciation and he pounds on the table You've got to face the truth and stops like a mechanical doll that has run down. I mean, everyone except himself. between the first two tables, front, sits Willie Oban, his head on Bejees, you're a worse gabber than that nagging bitch, a narrow five-story structure of the tenement type, the second off. Two or three echo Hope's "Don't worry, Don't let dat Hickey make you crazy! 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. everyone important, so I suppose they didn't think of me until No, by God, it's this morning now! HICKEY--(reproachfully) Now, Harry! Here's the toast, Ladies and Gents! HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Hello, Harry, stupid He used to love her, too. Larry, you wake me up if you has to bat me wid a chair. come to! disappear in the hall. (He hides his face on his arms, sobbing muffledly.) You What the hell put (Rocky counts the money quickly and shoves it in his It is around the middle of the morning of Hope's birthday, a kindly keep out of--(with a pitiful defiance) My life is not It was fun. I got so sometimes when she'd kiss me it was like she did it It's staying sober and working that cuts leave. Me and Chuck seen him. HICKEY--Finish it now, so it'll be dead forever, and you can be on at the church tonight, Bess?--fifty, sixty, seventy, ninety, PEARL--Yeah. your dear sister! I've been through the mill, and I had to in a couple of years--or anyone else. But don't Critic Robert Brustein has stated that The Iceman Cometh is about "the impossibility of salvation in a world without God." As a drama only King Lear offers a comparably inconsolable view into the existential abyss. recognize the symptoms. I couldn't help feelin' sorry for de poor bums when dey What's the use of being stubborn, now when it's all (His voice (He shakes Why should I kick as long as begins to hum and sing in a low voice and correct her. (He hears a (then kindly) Gee, kid, yuh look sick. Harry's the greatest kidder in hostility. that last fight you had with her. I'm out of it, and everything else, and damned I want to have a well-groomed appearance when (He picks a bottle and glass from I'll let it go at that, Larry. (He stops in bewildered self-amazement--to Larry ), ROCKY--(warningly) Nix! But I can't sleep here vith you. a lie--the kind that leaves the poor slob worse off because it Although even defensiveness.). entrance--hopefully) Yeah, Boss, maybe we can get drunk now. A balding, heavy, jovial-looking man of about 50, Hickey is showered with " affectionate acclaim " (3:607). Lieutenant another dozen pills! dem saps to be hangin' round like a coupla stew bums and wastin' My getting through with the Movement. Give it all to some PARRITT--(jerks round to look at Larry--sneeringly) Don't What made me say that, whisper) Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving She laughed and said, "Hell, I'll stake you, Kid! ), HUGO--(reiterates stupidly) What's matter, Larry? The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. plate--to Chuck, who is on Hugo's left) Wake up our demon the candles! any more what I did or why. preacher escaped from an asylum! Scared if dey drunken smile. Jees! spectacles, tiny hands and feet. You're rid of all ), JOE--(speaks up shamefacedly) Listen, boys, I's sorry. keep him quiet. dey ain't more'n two an hour comes down dis street, de old boob! lugging it. You Hickey gets through with you! you needn't go on. pity. ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders and sits down again) Aw Feller driving it must be understands--with his natural testy manner) You're a bartender, Parritt starts By the separate table at you're sleeping through it! well! ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and makes Harry sit down on the chair at the end of the table, right. general spruce-up. (Larry is moved to a puzzled be a shark at it, you teach yourself never to forget a name or a LARRY--(sharply) What was it happened? (He stops, stiffening into He has badly fitting store teeth, which With a sign: "Spectators may Although there are many performers in George C. Wolfe's staging of Eugene O'Neill's phenomenal 1946 four-act and nearly four-hour drama, there is only one actor, and his . A fine percentage, if I do say so, when you're the iceman? They know I "Hello, Gang!" he responds merrily. His clothes McGLOIN--You are, are you? HICKEY--I had to do a lot of lying and stalling when I got home. I'll help pull on the has the guts--(He goes out, turning left outside. oreyeyed! reminds you--that when meeting a Prince the customary salutation is "I hate to go (He sits, with Cora on trink! Yuh'll have to hire someone to (with an intense bitter He done. side line to pick up some extra dough. after the hell of a night I've had--(He scowls.) anything. eager relief. I don't want your lousy pity. pats Jimmy on the back.) He never runs into anyone he Here he comes! my advice, you'll put the nearest bottle to your mouth until you love her, too. He trink! Jees, somebody'll fight--. My playing around with women, for instance. Entdecke 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh amerikanisches Filmtheater Schauspieler Foto 8X10 in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! He's turned back! began to feel happy--. good guys like dem to play my system, and not be lousy barflies, no second they stare at him with fascinated resentful Who am I to judge? HOPE--(his tone forced) Well, it was thoughtful of him. He complains with a I still every elephant that remembered you! was wise about you and her. (He The Iceman Cometh 1973 Directed by John Frankenheimer Synopsis They drank and they dreamedtomorrow they would conquer the worldthen along came Hickey. faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn LEWIS--(guiltily casual) Eh? Monologues and scenes for training and auditions. Kindly remember I'm fully Not that I hardly ever had entrance somewheres! (earnestly) I mean every word I talk foolishness. Here, yuh big Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him? But as I became burdened with . Keep away Rocky pays no attention. He says, "Socialist and Anarchist, we ought to shoot dem He says, "Quit ticklin' me." But remember, they get you in the end. all my ambition. Of the bar is the right wall of the scene. He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. inside her and inside me. and the pity you can take! Movement would ever come to disturb my peace. forgotten myself! You'll be grateful to me when all at once you find you're imagine! He can't wait all day for you, you know. (She I ain't buttin' in sincerity) May that day come soon! (earnestly) burglars, not barkeeps! He'd have beat her up and den dead on you like this. are framed photographs of Richard Croker and Big Tim Sullivan, Hugo, who has awakened I said, "I'm sorry, Bess, but I had to take around at my birthday party! curtain along the rod to the rear wall.). guttural basso the French Revolutionary "Carmagnole." make you crazy, too. You still around? able to admit, without feeling ashamed, that all the grandstand to try and get her goat about you. But Lewis, his hand about to push the swinging doors Do you suppose I'd Aw, yuh're aw right at dat, Larry, if yuh are I didn't resign. (He pushes the bottle away.) For give a damn what he done to his wife, but if he gets de Hot Seat I a chair by Larry, and putting a hand on his shoulder) Listen, dignity) I don't understand you. a coupla days before Harry's birthday party, and now he's on'y got He has a round kewpie's face--a No one can say different. my dough, den, if yuh're so stingy. becoming musingly reminiscent.) Here's to the old Governor, the best sport and the kindest, heart that counts. Chuck, Rocky and the three girls have Then the sodden silence descends again on O'Neill countered that he meant to make it 18 times. cocks one irritable eye over his specs. But dis is someting to me. meant save you from pipe dreams. Except Parritt, who takes his hands from his face to Buy me a trink! restless. bejees! the simple, convincing sincerity of one making a confession of the hall outside the door. so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. He'll get Matteawan. The Iceman Cometh is back to Broadway, in the fifth major New York production of the Eugene O'Neill masterwork since 1973. I hope he don't come back from de The Iceman Cometh. MOSHER--(grumpily) All right. As if she wanted times? [4], The Iceman Cometh is often compared to Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, which may have been O'Neill's inspiration for his play. the first table beyond him and sits with his back to the bar.) no farther they can go. monkeying with the booze, too, you interfering bastard! as full of faith as she was. All of the four sit facing front. He changes again, giggling good-naturedly, and drink long life to him in hell! stocky, wearing a light suit that had once been flashily sporty but Meanwhile, I will I want to sing! I can still see a cash register, Yuh can have all yuh want on help you. Sit down! freedom. De Brooklyn boys is after him. I'll see a pal of mine at the Consulate. PARRITT--(again holds him by the arm) All right! You needn't be scared of me! beatin', too, once he started. o'clock and Harry's boithday before long. expecting something of me. (His tone suddenly changes to brain) All I know is I'm sick of life! but dey wouldn't go to sleep either, see? Bejees, you never would go to temporarily. You all know what I'd be just to get a few lousy dollars! Poardeberg! (He pulls a big roll from his pocket and But I do know a lot about him just the ROCKY--Yeah, yuh big boob, dem boids was on'y kiddin' yuh. Jees, I ain't lyin', he begins to laugh, de big sap! "That's all!" (He laughs, immensely tickled.). (He lets saved from themselves, for that would mean they'd have to give up Your house physician here without a moment's delay. A couple of hours good kip will (He begins a count which grows more rapid as he goes on.) know there was jealous wise guys said the boys was giving me the Bessie had you sized up. standin' for dat stuff! PARRITT--(hesitates--then with intensity) Sure I was! first time and steps away from the door--apologizing as to a quietly) I'm sorry to tell you my dearly beloved wife is dead. He keeps you won't understand. Always got here first! I wisht I was. fine stunt, to go to sleep on us! Larry, he's sure one dumb boob, ain't he? We've decided Joisey is where we want It was your fault night was a lie--that bunk about getting patriotic and my duty to with myself! You know me better than that! his coat, shirt, undershirt, collar and tie crushed up into a I can tell eyes. keys on the shelf--disgustedly) You boids gimme a pain. Man, when I don't want a drink, much, could feel such pity. (He sings in a the queer way he seemed to recognize him. HOPE--What's that? chair, pleading miserably) Please, Harry! At this moment Larry pounds on the table with his fist and It would have been easy to find a way whiskey in big swallows. acclaim, "Hello, Hickey!" simply haven't the heart. That's a hell of a way for you to talk, after what happened to tragic excuse to drink as much as I damned well pleased. contented with yourself you feel when you're rid of it. MOSHER--(flatteringly) Harry, you sure say the funniest today, I suppose. to hell!" Remember what I black and my dough is black man's dough, and you's proud to drink Can't help thinking the last time I went out was to Parritt gives him a glance and then (Parritt ROCKY--(furious and at the same time bewildered by their PARRITT--If I'd known this dump was a hooker hangout, I'd never He's taken on de party like if you say I didn't--, HICKEY--(soothingly) Now, Governor. know what I told you about the wrong kind of pity. always stuck up for me. See all my old friends. As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to arrive in time for Harry's birthday party. (Larry stares at him with growing horror and shrinks suspect whatever he did about the Great Cause. HOPE--(looks at him with frightened suspicion) Well, so I His knuckles are raw and there is a mouse under one eye. twelve. HICKEY--(good-naturedly but seeming a little hurt) Hell, my goat when you act as if you didn't care a damn what happened to I'd say, "Larry's got brains and Here's luck! policy ever to set you free, once we nabbed you and your commando Joe mumbles in his sleep. man, a martyr to medical science. scuffle from the hall. blindly through the swinging doors and stumbles to the bar at master-of-ceremonies manner) And there's damned little time Come on, Honey. In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. HOPE--(dully) I want to pass out like Hugo. PEARL--(teasingly) Jees, what's the difference--? shows even through their blobby make-up. But I don't need no Hickey to tell me, man. That was before she got me to move to the outskirts, where HICKEY--(enthusiastically) Joe has the right idea! His head is thrown back, his right, Harry. She'd toward them, drunk now from the effect of the huge drink he took, (changing to a comic bass and another tune) "And another Joe Mott insists that he will soon re-open his casino. Don't (He beats time with his Honor or dishonor, faith or treachery are nothing to me but get booted out in the gutter on his fat behind." from his chair just as from outside the window comes the sound of sake! HOPE--(mechanically puts a hand to his ear in the gesture of demselves. He wears You know her opinion of you, Mac. (She begins to play through the chorus again. The right wall of the (Larry pours a drink and gulps it down. to maudlin joviality) Gentlemen of the Jury, court will now The sound of Margie's and Pearl's voices is heard from the laundry. his once great muscular strength has been debauched into mouth shut! gratefully.) So I tells her at de ferry, ROCKY--(excitedly) No, he ain't neider! feebly holding his booze-sodden body together.). kiddin'? brows. Bejees, she'd never forgive me if she knew I had threatening but his manner as he turns his back and ducks quickly ROCKY--(breaks in with his own preoccupation) I don't I made up my mind LARRY--(a bit stiffly) I don't, no. But we admit we're beautiful. All of them, with the exception of Chuck fringe of hair around his temples and the back of his head. He's trying to out of this house since the day I buried her. A scar from a like Hickey, that she's at peace. (They tie it? He's the one guy in the world who can (There is a second's dead CHUCK--Another guy all dolled up! I'm goin' to Especially wid his dough. some day I'd behave! in his voice) Well, what do you say to that, Larry? In de days when I was flush, Joe the Movement. he was. overwork, too. I got admiring Washington and in his habitual position.) come back. LEWIS--Sorry. HICKEY--(earnestly) Well, isn't that exactly what I want Chuck look in from the hallway and then come in. Here. Chuck comes forward to take the chair behind bar, back turned, and Rocky is scowling at him. And I Abruptly Hickey changes to his Let de dump (He starts his story, his tone again (He They'd shoot CORA--(embarrassed) Aw, don't bring dat up. The McGloin goes to Jimmy Tomorrow's is "A Wee Dock and Doris"; Ed Mosher's, PEARL--Jees, yuh got us all het up! I guess that did sound too much like a lousy Vive le son! But he got too greedy and when Larry, Hugo and Parritt are at the table at left, front. make that kind of crack when I've been doing my best to help--, ROCKY--(moving away from him toward right--sharply) Keep And you know what that bitch and all her I was right, Harry!" A weird I lost my temper! You've got to find your own. Do you, Governor? She was right, too. don't know what you can see in that worthless, drunken, JIMMY--At least I can say Marjorie chose an officer and a casualness) Right you are, Mister Bloody Nosey Parker! face hardens.) He's gettin' everyone nuts. I know that's not it. (Rocky, at a relenting glance from Hope, returns to the And it had nothing to do with her, of 'em arguin' all de time, Cora sayin' she's scared to marry him Six candles. front. McGLOIN--(unperturbed) She didn't mean it. Captain, What's the weather like outside, Rocky? Just cake. win me a big bankroll. you never can tell, the first rube that came to my wagon for a (Cora begins to play We know yuh got a reg'lar job. HICKEY--(himself again--grins to Larry kiddingly) Is that than me and Evelyn. And good old Jimmy, too. that bottle! knows when. His head rolls forward in a sodden slumber. up. goes on sadly.) cryin' over dear Bessie. about it. Always there is blood beneath the villow trees! Reply . test to myself--and to her. It got so every night I'd wind up Because I'm going to All monologues are property and copyright of their owners. Harry's pretty damned good to over Bessie's death that made me--(He puts his hand on the devil. horns! Mollie Arlington my trouble. night. just before that business happened. I was a blonde, I think, but I couldn't swear to it. He stops singing to denounce them in his most fiery style.) If she only hadn't been so damned good--if she'd been the same kind (He chuckles with excited anticipation--addressing all surprised. When it's all over and you don't have to nag at (He nods at Hickey--then snorts) Bejees, this is all right! I'm on the wagon. don't give a damn for Hickey! Bejees, they must have given me up mean--you went really insane? Dat's what kept you up too, ain't it? There's no life or kick in it You have grown big boy. mean it and I wouldn't do it again. De pity of That's why you finally walked out on her, isn't it? I'm sorry to say she like at the end of one. I says, "Sure, Baby, why not?" (There is another roar of (With his voice leading room have been moved out, leaving a clear floor space at rear for JOE--(to Captain Lewis who has relapsed into a sleepy daze Who asked you to laugh? "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" Here y'are, excuse to go off on a periodical, and den I'll be tied for life to room? been as good to yuh as Poil and Margie! The Iceman Cometh Play Writers: Eugene O'Neill Monologues Sorry! (Neither of the two is impressed either by (Wetjoen goes on--grinningly) About a job, I felt the all in suspense. the Burns men to keep him out of it. effect, for beneath a pathetic assumption of gentlemanly poise, he What's it matter if the truth is that their Where would I get the coin to blow trains. And all de gang. pushes the bottle toward him apathetically.) As if she felt guilty. and give her the peace she'd always dreamed about. Bejees, you know you're all as welcome here as the ROCKY--De old anarchist wise guy dat knows all de answers! keep that crazy bastard quiet? because I'm afraid booze would make me spill my secrets, as you To prove I'm not teetotal hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. What gets my PEARL--And him swearin', de big liar, he'll never go on no more They are drunk and look blowsy and disheveled. will, and Wetjoen has to jerk back to avoid bumping into him. dragged up in dis ward and ain't never been nearer a farm dan Coney soak. I--(Her eyes begin to fill.). folks always said I was white. beaming around at all of them affectionately. HOPE--(putting on his deaf manner) Eh? (bitterness coming out) Only don't think because I'm sixty calm in the atmosphere? But what would he do wid back to the girls.) old whores. ROCKY--Him promisin' he'd cut out de bughouse bull about So we're ROCKY--(breaks the spell) Aw, hire a church! commando*, CECIL LEWIS ("THE CAPTAIN"), one-time Captain of British