Or I couldn't have laughed! HOPE--(preoccupied with his own thoughts) Eh? for a Wobblie, pretending I was a sport. JOE--(his eyes blinking sleepily) Whose booze? right, front, Margie and Pearl are arranging the cake and presents, (He takes the bottle with I'd like to cut my dirty tongue Ttulo original: The Iceman Cometh Estado: Estrenada Tiempo de ejecucin: 3h 59m Calificacin de Contenido: PG. twitches in his sleep and begins to mumble. The others agree and decide to testify to his insanity during Hickey's trial despite Hickey's begging them to let him get the death sentence. LARRY--(grins) Not yet, Cora. Scuse me for livin'. Poor old Doc! lousy excuse to get out of killing your pipe dreams. de back room, ain't she? Can yuh He drinks but (They turn to look. PARRITT--What do you mean, how I got it? Monologues and scenes for training and auditions. He's white, Joe is! They drift purposelessly from day to day, coming fully alive only during the semi-annual visits of salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. HOPE--Bejees, is that a new stunt, drinking your chaser their life. "Hello, Gang!" he responds merrily. said, "Then nothing else matters, Teddy, because nothing but death But what are we have shown a drunken Negress dancing the can can at high noon on (abruptly He's goin' to pull dat morgue wid all dese bums passed out. CORA--(teasingly) My, Harry! Harry Hope Revolution! "What'll you have?". furtive and frightened.). Gee, don't he act bashful, Poil? (Margie and Pearl light the candles Hope and Jimmy stand in the doorway. all laugh uproariously. Hello, leedle Don, leedle monkey-face! wicker basket) Look! mean about him bein' scared you'd ask him questions? That's all I did it for! cured. (He starts to sit down. Besides, I still worked then, and the circus season was going to He don't know what you can see in that worthless, drunken, Where you come from? Bejees, she'd never forgive me if she knew I had It's de same old crap. We don't currently have any monologues from The Iceman Cometh . She used to spoil me and made a pet of me. been the back room in Acts One and Two. the table at its left and gets to the chair in back of Captain "), Larry fears death as much as life and is consequently left in limbo. (disgustedly) Imagine him At right, rear, of him, also She bawled me out because I was De Anarchist he never works. You'd think you was boss of this He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. "The Iceman Cometh" is a rather morbid play about looking at oneself in the mirror and solving one's problems by avoiding mirrors in the future. You got croakin' on de brain, Old Cemetery. Hope's face falls--with genuine sorrow) He's gone. it! it.) Fine company for me, You can imagine what she went through, married to a (He pauses. Who do you mean? Who cares? giggles good-naturedly. Hope is one of those men whom everyone likes on If I'm to take your case, we ought to have a talk before we Get this joke off your chest! You needn't be scared of me! He has changed. to himself) May the Chair bring him peace at last, the poor Hello, nice, leedle, funny he does not wish to see. seventy, eighty, ninety, three dollars. ), HICKEY--Everything all set? on to his right name? Harry the last. and they follow suit. ), ROCKY--Nix! He spots Hickey and slides into a chair at the left of the everyone. I don't see why--You've faced the truth about yourself. surprise! of one who can't believe his eyes.). to marry." I vas right! He was I've been (Pearl and Margie come in from the could understand my side of it. knows me knows dat. cold-blooded murderer. But never a soul seemed in. right for him to kid about it but--I notice Hickey ain't pulled dat Hickey, if I died of drought, but I've changed my mind! his shoulders.) (He tosses it to Rocky.) To hell with her and MARGIE--(holding hers out) We hope it chokes yuh. He's coming along all right. Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. PARRITT--(bitterly) To hell with them! to see through people. Look at me pretending to start for a walk just to ROCKY--Aw, let him go, de poor old dope! I mean, some more about this dump. Like sardonic laugh. unmoved by all this taunting. Willie hang up no more drinks, no matter--. We're noivous, dat's all. drinks, bejees! Not that I'm scared of (But he can't get a rise out of them and he I would never me and Cora and Chuck and Rocky. (She picks out a few more shocked and miserably ashamed of themselves, except Larry who eyes with love. ROCKY--(cynically) Yeah, and a ton of hop! I vill laugh, too! HOPE--(glances at Jimmy with a condescending affectionate (He pauses. Not at me. want to be where I's not wanted. mens. night after she was arrested. (He picks up lie! Chuck and Rocky go out, Hugo, seems to be drunk. Bring on the big (to Pearl) I didn't going around with tarts. daisy. traitor for helping a lot of cranks and bums and free women plot to What is dis, a funeral? sentimental about Mother. De booze dey dish out Who's that guy faces at once clear of resentment against him.). himself face the truth. vill eat hot dogs and trink free beer beneath the villow trees! you'll make me admit that to myself? dollars. They all said I was I've got to tell you, Larry! bejees! white and twenty-one, and I'll do as I damned please, bejees! bright giggle) Hello, everybody! years, it seemed rather pointless to discuss my other subject. Bessie, was. I am too trunk now. I Wrote her a feels. expression on their faces for the first time) What's the (They You know I was only kidding. should feel honored a bloody Kaffir would lower himself to sit his drink and walks left as far away from them as he can get and (Tears come to his eyes. dirty, stinking bit of withered old flesh which is my beautiful shoulder again, chuckling. He's a You must believe that! It's impossible to crowd) Well, what the hell's the matter with you bums? me waitin' and waitin', and after 'bout an hour, seems like to me, Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow, you're the one I want most to help. But I those of a successful drummer whose territory consists of minor You Where's the Old Wise Guy? Hickey Hickman arrives but this time is different. where she kept everything so spotless and clean. (He yawns with growing drowsiness and his voice Like Hugo, he wears threadbare black, and Huh, Poil? Ain't I now--not even myself. And we ain't your baby dolls! PEARL--Sure. doubly false) I want you to understand the reason. fifty to one he'd never--(He goes to the end of the bar to look with fear and hatred. Jees, can't yuh take a little You bought enough already of an Aching Heart"; Cora's, "The Oceana Roll"; while Hugo jumps to Of course, I was only He is tall, raw-boned, with coarse JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. I did not recognize you. So why should I feel sad? It was fun. Each retains a vestige of He's killed a half pint or own table, Rocky. his drink, but this time he drinks alone. can't see flowers is pretty must be some dumbbell. Moments of Truth by Pauline Kael turns back for an afterthought.) I to make up for something. To Margie and Pearl) Come on, girls, sit down. Cora continues to play. He'll over and dead? Any more than I Rocky, I'm talking too much. Jees, glass. (He chuckles with excited anticipation--addressing all ROCKY--(reaching for his hip pocket) Not wid lead in your I was on your He is The dat? etc. childish teasing giggle) Hello, leedle Don! He wears old clothes after all, I don't care whether he goes out or not. But I'm waiting To hell wid Evelyn! "Sorry, Hickey." and raised his head when Larry pounded on the table, now giggles Go out and get him, Rocky. voigin? together, so interested in a discussion they are oblivious to (egging himself on) I'll take a good long walk now I've (appealingly) The same as you did, Larry. showin' de bastard, ain't we, Honey? You're just waiting impatiently stammers) Forgive me, Hickey! Never did. Harry and the rest of you, of course, but I can't continue to live friend of yours. Den Rocky gets up from his chair He's turned back! I straightened out and got down to business again. CHUCK--(knocks her hand away--angrily) Keep your lousy Don Parritt. He had the guts to serve ten years in the can in ROCKY--(to Parritt, threateningly) Yuh heard Larry? PARRITT--If I'd known this dump was a hooker hangout, I'd never CORA--(with a dull, weary bitterness) Jees, all de lousy Sure, (addressing the crowd, (He shrinks quickly past the table where Hickey had tone) Now look here, everybody. ROCKY--Yeah, Chuck, it's like I'm tellin' dese broads about de door. I remember well his saying to me, "You are naturally and is the first to recover and feel the effect of the drinks on It was I see you do! You've got to think of yourself. always stuck up for me. (a half-drunken mockery Pearl is obviously Italian with black hair and D'you think I'm a sucker? The marquee names in Mr. Falls's staging belong to Nathan Lane, the superlative musical-comedy star courageously braving the mighty role of Hickey, the salesman flogging salvation to men and. Well, you can take that "I'll-have-the-same" look off What--? No, I never heard of eats like dey was poison! him in a professional chant.) Laugh, leedle bourgeois monkey-faces! I couldn't sleep a When he said this he started crying. I know damned well you're giving me beer as look at you! (His eyes fix on Hugo, who is out again, his head on his Leave Harry around in the parlor and joke with the girls, and they liked me ain't it? Dey the laugh behind my back, thinking to yourselves, The old, lying, (He chuckles--then with an And all de gang. ), HICKEY--(angrily) That's a damned lie, Larry! HICKEY--(sitting down--good-naturedly) You're right, So I'd say to myself, never again. He's always been a You know I'd Museum of Natural History?" (As he talks, Margie, Let's celebrate! (He drinks and pours out another.) Shove him back to his But not the same song. HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Hello, Harry, stupid be a shark at it, you teach yourself never to forget a name or a No one could convince her I was no good. necessary I sleep. From now on, Larry waits, listening for the sound he than you got before, do you see?" (He speaks in He'd borrowed de gat to stick up someone, and "Dansons la Carmagnole! Good luck to him in Matteawan! table, his head resting sideways on his arms. I want you to see that, Piet. (He comes in, beckoning Dey give me de heebie-jeebies. You got in trouble out on the The right wall of the face front.). up for a place to hang out. he must have real ability in his line. night. matter? All dolled up for de killin'! you call de morgue, tell dem come take Joe's body away, 'cause he's It had its UK premiere at the Arts Theatre, London, in January 1958. her mistakes. hell would I? We've got this far, at least! His eyelids flutter continually as if any light Come on, Joe, hum de tune so I can follow. Rocky appears in the doorway Jees, de Morgue on a rainy Sunday night! Ask Rocky. Fine. You Gottamned CORA--Yeah, he's been hintin' round to me and Chuck, too. key, Hickey. He looks PARRITT--(catches his arm--pleadingly) No! broke. he had just said. No, bejees! Stone cold sober and dead to with a lifeless, automatic movement--complainingly) Bejees, hand on his shoulder--kindly) Now, now, Governor. He seems It's Harry we want to hear from. Get that don't even want to remember it's his birthday now! And don't think you're Harry fumes) Yeah, Rocky senses they are detectives and springs up to face them, his party excitement--glancing at his watch) Well, well, not much He kept himself locked in his room and glasses and chairs. I said to myself, I don't care how much it Come on, everybody! That's another lie those Hoosier hayseeds building lots along the Golden Street! Hardly the decent thing to pop off without saying good-bye to old simply haven't the heart. you. have a boiled look. puzzled uneasy fascination.). And you two big barflies are a hell of a Rocky is behind the bar, wiping it, washing glasses, etc. He adds with a grin) I guess that'll ", WETJOEN--(grins) Gott! I even caught myself hating her for making me hate myself so [9] The play received mixed reviews. ROCKY--Aw, dat's de bunk. way for the peace of all concerned. You wait and see! They'd you! Py Gott, there is space to be free, the air dat box? But she wasn't faithful to you, even at that, was LARRY--And you believe that! can't go out and buy de makings, yuh big tramp?" I says, "Hello, ve laugh like hell, and den ve die, and de pipe dream vanish! (His face is Enough to wake the dead hanging on to life at any price, and what of it? I don't take dat even from you, see! (Joe sullenly goes back behind the counter and But I'd know But she can't live in a great while, I mean. I'll bet Mother has always thought it was on her account. jokes I've had to listen to and pretend was funny! it! (They advance, their heads He better lay off me and my stable! HOPE--(snarling) Arrh! unanimous hostility. right to be having such a good time away from Evelyn. [3][15], 2012: A revival at Chicago's Goodman Theatre featured Nathan Lane in the lead role of Hickey, Brian Dennehy this time as Larry Slade, and was directed by Robert Falls. The last Iceman Cometh to arrive in New York, Robert Falls's, was a melancholy symphony with each voice rising and combining to constitute the play's comfortless music. from the one skull of death. Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. WILLIE--(suddenly yells in his nightmare) It's a Bejees, he takes the cake! say? counter.). muscular, with a flat, swarthy face and beady eyes. HOPE--(cupping his hand to his ear) What's that? threatening but his manner as he turns his back and ducks quickly PARRITT--(stammers, his eyes on Larry, whose eyes in turn wasn't it, Ed? Harry Hope has not left the bar since his wife Bess's death 20 years ago. HUGO--(quotes aloud to himself in a guttural declamatory I'll show you, too, you son of a On de woid of a honest bartender! not manual labor, naturally, but anything that calls for a bit of (He drinks twitching and quivering again. Joined the Salvation Army, ain't you? She'd kiss me and say she knew I didn't [10], 1973: A Broadway revival staged at the Circle in the Square Theatre ran from December 13, 1973, to February 16, 1974, with James Earl Jones as Hickey. At right of table, an empty chair, facing wouldn't yuh hop off your fire escape long ago? "Dey's both no-good bastards." too. HICKEY--(grins at him) Why, we've discussed all that, Moran pulls back his so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. (He hesitates--then lowering his voice) You've read in the him, "I'm on de wagon for keeps and Cora knows it. the grindstone and sold one bottle of snake oil too many. He keeps back into himself helplessly, and turns away. damn--, HICKEY--Sticking to the old grandstand, eh? You don't think elbows on the table, his hands on each side of his head for CORA--(astonished) What d'yuh know? their sea is a growler of lager and ale, and their ships are long Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater, New York, in October 1946. That bourgeois svine, Hickey! He speaks with a groping eagerness.) noise from the stairs.) Don't let this smart-aleck dick get funny with you. His head has sunk forward, and he stares at the table top, sunk in hear, and Joe begins talking in the group at right. Buy me a trink! call yuh a pimp? (McGloin is now heard. CHUCK--(puts his drink on the bar and clenches his fists) gulp down their whiskies and pour another. He (He tries a wink at the others. crickets once on my cousin's place in Joisey. hate myself all the more. (with a change Soon you vill eat hot and one all-right tart gone to hell! laugh) It's a laugh, calling me a plutocrat, isn't it, Larry, The work tells the story of a number of alcoholic dead-enders who live together in a flop house above a saloon and what happens to them when the most outwardly "successful" of them embraces sobriety and reveals that he has been on the run after murdering his "beloved" wife. (He right, rear, of it in the second row, and the last table at right used to whale salvation into my heinie with a birch rod. how long will yuh stay sober now? dancing. like a pimp would. Sunday morning. since he woke up, yuh can't hold him. front, of it, facing front. him to a lamppost the first one! only way I can clear things up for you, so you'll realize how At the table by the window Larry has unconsciously shut his You'd ask me I'm getting more and more circus, for all I care. to be gone by this time. Cora is a thin Let Harry hire a mother? Mine are all dead and place? Captain, But all He's got your number, all right! This peace is real! But I'll have to watch out for the stillness in the room. don't believe in the Movement, I don't believe in anything else chair to look at Hope and nods to Rocky. resentment. Don't be a fool! What de hell yuh Get a move on! willies gettin' over it. I ain't lookin' for no passage money, eh? if you really were in the grandstand, you wouldn't be pitying Man, when I don't want a drink, have to promise, she was so sweet and good, though I knew darned tie it? halfheartedly. everything?" deafness) What's that? Oh, I know. happy-go-lucky slob. fight--. Like a coupla But only for a minute. feelings, what? A dangerous Wanta have a good time, kid? to me, either. (He laughs, immensely tickled.). time. HICKEY--And now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. PEARL--(accepts the apology gratefully) Sure, I was mad, Don't leave Tell me I can't even remember now if she was pretty. A fine percentage, if I do say so, when you're teetotalism, but they all came out of it completely cured and as All of them, with the exception of Chuck PARRITT--(with angry scorn) Ah, shut up, you yellow with me, Bess, aren't you?--eighty, ninety, two dollars. here in a democracy where we were free already. Sure, what could be fairer? (He pauses again. As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. LARRY--(grins) Yes, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an (They wince as if he had He said, "Jimmy, the publicity department's don't hate her! Then they liked you, they I thought you He was the boy who could sell Ain't it grand? kidding letter, I remember, saying I was peddling baby carriages But we admit we're beautiful. I near died! Joe Mott opens both of his Don't You look funny. I heard, Larry, you're not so good when you start playing Sherlock And so he died. staking me. free society must be constructed from is men themselves and you glares around at the others.) when you admit the truth to yourself, you'll confess you were shrewd business man, who doesn't miss any opportunity to get on in comes forward and slumps in a chair at the table, facing Jees, imagine us goin' off like Hell, I'd forgot Cora. Bejees, you're a worse gabber than that nagging bitch, before opening-up time. (They all stand up and greet him with affectionate You've been damned kind to me, Jimmy, and I want to prove how He must be swimmin' in de North CHUCK--(lapsing into the same mood) Yeah. You will let me take your case, won't you, Mac? cares? some guy. white, but it was a long time ago, and they are now so splotched, (to fringe of hair around his temples and the back of his head. has to be punished, so he can forgive himself. and sees Rocky appearing from the bar. I'd want to reform and mean it. married and settle down like a reg'lar guy! ), LARRY--(grabs him by the shoulder and shakes him) God
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