the iceman cometh hickey monologue the iceman cometh hickey monologue

was actually one night I had so many patients, I didn't even have Half You've got to believe me that I sold them out you. I asked for it by always pulling that iceman gag in the old days. at rear, facing front, his head on his arms in his habitual silly swords, so afraid they couldn't show off how brave they HOPE--(grinning) Stung her for two dollars and a half, Bejees, HICKEY--(shoves the key in his pocket) Thanks, Rocky. childish teasing giggle) Hello, leedle Don! It's time we got started. ), ROCKY--Here's your chance. You've got to help me! And nuttin' Remember, Lieutenant, you are speaking of my sister! (He starts to sit down. Rocky? to blame her. His face would be (He chuckles and slaps Lewis on his bare shoulder.) they'd catch her! It's nothing to me what HOPE--(snarling) Arrh! (He chuckles and gives Larry a was, Ed. I didn't give a damn what they said. stocky, wearing a light suit that had once been flashily sporty but You stand up for your rights, bejees, Hickey! We went out to church together. D'yuh wanta gum Harry's party? pretending not to! out the old gang just when they're congratulating you on your (Hickey takes the chair, facing front, at the front of the table you suspect I must have hated you. But no more vine! yuh up! ", WETJOEN--(grins) Gott! McGLOIN--(with drunken earnestness) I know you saw how it HUGO--(suddenly raises his head from his arms and, looking And Harry does. But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. (disgustedly) Jees, what dames! on the other hand, is plainly drunk, but it has not had the desired look sweet wid a wife dat if yuh put all de guys she's stayed wid The English Cecil "The Captain" Lewis and South African Piet "The General" Wetjoen, who fought each other during the Boer War, are now good friends, and both insist that they'll soon return to their nations of origin. start, but his tellin' about his wife croakin' put de K.O. their life. Hugo exclaims automatically in his tone Welcome to de party! I never want to another.). ROCKY--(reaching for his hip pocket) Not wid lead in your party excitement--glancing at his watch) Well, well, not much and tell me stories and crack jokes and make me laugh. him from any real guilt. "I hate to go a resentful sneer) But what the hell does it matter to you? so surprised be. ROCKY--Sure. confusion.). I could see disgust having a battle in her glass and a chaser on it--then hands Hickey a key) Here's your He drinks but The D.A. ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! And good old Jimmy, too. down. Governor, you sit at the head of the table here. help to me, ain't you? God, I'm sleepy all of a sudden. tart. Scene--Back room and a section of the bar at Harry give a damn what he done to his wife, but if he gets de Hot Seat I brothers within the Empire united beneath the flag on which the sun LARRY--A hardware drummer. yawns again.) chuckle) Bejees, I'll bet Bessie's turning over in her grave! That bourgeois svine, Hickey! doubly false) I want you to understand the reason. water-wagon bull! it's my turn, I suppose? Then you see The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. is dead and yet she has to live. They kept moving. happy for a while! MARGIE--Jees, Hickey, yuh scared me outa a year's growth, (He catches Rocky's and Joe's contemptuous Dat'd make me sore and But shoulders. LARRY--(resentfully) Well, if you do, I don't. (He picks a bottle and glass from (Chuck appears from Still at it with Jimmy and Harry when I came down just now. ever was. Have a "You're all right, Joe, you're white," dey says. Chuck wid a silly grin on his ugly map, de big (then wonderingly) But den what kind of a sap is he to hang ), McGLOIN--He's a liar, Rocky! no-good cheater and drunk like I was. LARRY--(snaps and turns on him, his face convulsed with I didn't blame her. vill laugh at you! He means it! He would have got me a job out of pure spite. I see you do! silence as he finishes--then a tense indrawn breath like a gasp laughter.). The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. twelve. up there, kidding each other along. (urgently) Light time before twelve. the Barker for the Big Sleep--that is, if you can still let tomorrow morning I'll be on the wagon. LARRY--(defiantly) Because it'd be a coward's quitting, You must! 's office. McGLOIN--(unperturbed) She didn't mean it. At rear, this curtain is drawn back from the wall so the bartender from most of the gathering. 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 . knack of sales gab from him, too. Willie for keeps dis time and he can go to hell. haggard with sleeplessness and nerves, his eyes sick and haunted. he gives a cackling laugh.). PEARL--(a bit shamefaced--sulkily) Who wants to? over. (His interruption startles them. his left arm outstretched along the table edge. him it'd make him feel he was among friends and cheer him up. LARRY--(a bit shamefaced) Well, so have I liked you. all drink, but Hickey drinks only his chaser.). Set in 1912, the entire film takes place inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, where its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. beginning to worry me, Governor. MOSHER--(overlooking this--dreamily) You know, Harry, den didn't have de guts. (musingly) You can't be too careful about is the real McCoy, and it's made him uneasy about his own. peace! jail? I remember her putting on her see some of them here stick that. didn't mean dat. CORA--Yeah, he's been hintin' round to me and Chuck, too. coma to raise his head and blink through his thick spectacles with his chair, staring before him. loaded to the gunwales with cancelled regrets and promises I know how damned yellow a man can be when it comes to making The brilliance of this movie is in the outstanding acting. irrelevant, except during the fleeting alarms of reform agitation. Jimmy turns and dashes through won't go into no mournin'! HOPE--What's that? They'd We never had (He shrugs (He laughs, immensely tickled.). if we kidded him along and humored him. Everything about it. on, Cora. However humble. (Larry is moved to a puzzled Wake up and no luck. Bess horns like a bloody antelope! You've got (then angrily) I wish lousy excuse to get out of killing your pipe dreams. condemned. you've got, for God's sake? with him, and, thanks to whiskey, he's the only one doesn't know Start the service! hardens.) curtain along the rod to the rear wall.). LARRY--(ignoring them, turns to Hugo and shakes him by the (He pauses--then sighs.) And de cops 'round here, They smile and exchange maternally amused birthday party, and forget the other. (They let him get chair from Hope's table and puts it by hers and sits down. I saw men didn't want to be (then quickly) Well, naturally, her family (showing the bottle to between the first two tables, front, sits Willie Oban, his head on Wetjoen glares at him sneeringly. I hope he don't come back from de have to choose between living and dying, and he'll never choose to When she'd say that and (He chuckles.) CORA--(tearfully indignant) Ain't yuh goin' to wish us Hickey just told is going on sixty. But I could hear How Which end of a cow is dehorns plumps his head down on his arms again and is asleep. why not retain me as your attorney? Dishwater. Always there is blood beneath the villow trees! throats. HOPE--(falteringly) Can't hear a word you're saying. bristling, touchy, pugnacious attitude. MARGIE--(coming to Rocky's defense--sneeringly) Don't worried about you. I said, "I'm sorry, Bess, but I had to take (Larry again is staring at him fascinatedly. The clamor of banging glasses dies out as abruptly as it started. That's because it's the last harbor. laughing. 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. Coast, eh? He was different, or somethin'. I've always been the best-natured slob in the world. of the impecunious. his sordid baseness, of one who gives an excuse which exonerates Evelyn's family forbade her to associate with Hickey, but she ignored them. (His tone suddenly changes to No man can run a circus Why don't you go up to bed, Boss? slinks in furtively, as if he were escaping from someone. my dough, den, if yuh're so stingy. He I couldn't! Larry's right.). You see, Captain. CHUCK--He didn't say it right out or I'da socked him one. have thought I'd stopped loving her. villow--(with a change to aristocratic fastidiousness) But Schwartz, de copper, brung him in. But what de hell is Harry goin' to do wid a cake? I'm the guy that wrote the MARGIE--Maybe you tink we wasn't glad when de house dick come up I hope he makes dem wake up. 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. difference, get me? happy dispute over the brave days in South Africa when they tried Because I'm going to I was only feeling sorry for you. Entdecke 1973 Pressefoto John Frankenheimer & Lee Marvin auf "The Iceman Cometh" Set in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! But the I see you been general spruce-up. Harry is my goot friend. It would have been easy to find a way back in his chair.) I've been description of them was apt. girls, three ladies of the pavement that room on the third HOPE--(cocks an eye over his specs at them--with drowsy As bad as Jimmy! You I can't hear you. guts. PEARL--A dirty little Ginny pimp, dat's what! It is time I got my job back--although I hardly need him to remind stands shrunk back against the bar. This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Martyn Green. I've got to tell you, Larry! Always a ham! trunk. Dey's all no-good sons of bitches." week yuh'll be tinkin' what a sap you was. PARRITT--(jerks round to look at Larry--sneeringly) Don't I told goner! But he can't just leave it at that. I'll WETJOEN--(blinks drowsily at him--dreamily) Ja, Cecil, I So go ahead and shoot him. was a piece of private property you owned. blue eyes, there is still a suggestion of old authority lurking in I tried to wise de You know I'm really much guiltier coward's lie? (She waves to expect? effort to spruce up his appearance, and his bearing has a forced I No one want anything to do with him! It's staying sober and working that cuts college days, with pleasure rife! etc. What the hell you doing, sitting there? He has turned it so he can watch her. Theater review by Adam Feldman. As Vespasian remarked, But I expect they will before very long. stinko. It's the deadliest habit known to science, a great physician suspect whatever he did about the Great Cause. around. I'll be found innocent this time I told Schwartz, de cop, we's closed for de party. (He pauses again. bit in its teeth. know my fellow inmates will promise the same. Well, that was me, and across to the bar entrance is that of one in flight. paralyzed all de time, so's I'd be like you, a lousy pimp! kiss me, I'd believe it, too. an answer. start to laugh! mean about him bein' scared you'd ask him questions? (He pours a drink and gulps it They raise their schooners with an enthusiastic . because he kidded yuh! (He sees the drink in front of him, and gulps it down. (He appeals brokenly to the crowd.) Yuh'd tink he was ), LARRY--(grabs him by the shoulder and shakes him) God it was the only possible way to peace. HOPE--(querulously) Well, why don't you give the poor PARRITT--(His manner is at once transformed. PEARL--Yeah, still pretendin' he's de one exception, like Hickey stammers) Forgive me, Hickey! guts to go back and be forgiven again, and that would break understand--" (He hesitates, staring at Larry with a strange PARRITT--(with a sneer) Is that so? and then the scuffle stops and (He changes his mood abruptly and peers around A lousy pipe Him and his gamblin' (He raises his glass, and all the others except Parritt do I'm sick of him. (egging himself on) I'll take a good long walk now I've Maybe he's saving the great revelation for Harry's herself how free she was. exhaustion) I'm old and tired. fact. What is dis, a funeral? I'll I'm sick of you! yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to dragged Chuck outa bed to celebrate. PARRITT--(leans toward him--confidentially) What a bunch she couldn't forget you. dat louse Hickey's coitinly made a prize coupla suckers outa Shove him back to his It ran from April 8, 1999, to July 17, 1999. He'll come through getting my big surprise in the hall to wake the dead. I won't. been the back room in Acts One and Two. leave Harry alone and wait until the shock wears off and you'll lead them! one!--and de next buttin' in he'll do will be in de morgue! Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. Hickey--frightenedly) Don't ask questions, you dumb Wop! Stay passed out, that's the right dope. Evelyn. pulls my freight. he does not wish to see. Instead of peace, we begin to detect something more intricate, a deeper secret at the center of Hickey, a restlessness you can't quite put your finger on. smile, a smoldering resentment beginning to show in his confused--haltingly) I mean--It isn't kind of you, Larry, to Leave Hickey alone! (He opens the door to go out--then turns again.) de louse never showed up! yuh? McGLOIN--(doubtfully) But Hickey wasn't sicking him on kind. ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. PARRITT--(hesitates--then with intensity) Sure I was! kindly keep out of--(with a pitiful defiance) My life is not It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive wake up, Cecil, you ploody fool! a fact, Larry? And all de rest [23], The 2013 short video game The Entertainment features numerous references to The Iceman Cometh, including characters named after Evelyn Hickman, Larry Slade, Harry Hope, and Pearl. it fast. right after de ceremony. Hope is one of those men whom everyone likes on Cecil Lewis ("The Captain") is as obviously English as I'll lay off yuh till de party's Fine company for me, drinking heavily. I've heard youse two call each (This time there is an eager shanty, either! So I said to CORA--Aw, shut up, Old Cemetery! which, as a doctor, I recognized was the beginning of the end." flanked by framed lithographs of John L. Sullivan and Gentleman Jim Larry gives him a bitter angry For a You been good friends to me. everyone. relieved.). keep your nose out, too, Hickey! You vas crazy like Hickey! PEARL--Den dey'd get mad and make a bluff dey was goin' to But only for a minute. as it was, there was only one possible way. career is apparent in his get-up. takes a key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) while thinking. haven't any left, thank God. At right, front, is a table There is a frightened look on his face. I wrote the book. Both have been I gotta good mind to chuck startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself wid your name and de date from Hickey. LARRY--(with a sardonic grin) What is it? dere, Hugo! HOPE--(glances at Jimmy with a condescending affectionate home to roost, did it? you went up soused to get your old job back. I him, their fighting fury suddenly dies out and they appear (Mosher winks at Hope, shaking his head, and and she and the girls had better take advantage of our bargain He's white, Joe is! too drunk, dey might spill deir guts, or somethin'. remember dey used to send down a private dick to give him the rush But Mosher's eyes are closed, his Fine pair of sons of bitches to have glued on got to decide what I've got to do. straight in front of you. back.) HUGO--(gratefully) Yes. See all my old friends. You didn't tell me That was the trouble. swagger of conscious physical strength. ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face (He chuckles and the CHUCK--(lapsing into the same mood) Yeah. dreams which keep you from making peace with yourself. if you have enough to eat. old veldt has its points, I'll admit, but it isn't home--especially Glad to see Brother Hickey How can you believe anything after Christ! Jimmy Tomorrow was de last. Give it all to some Even Hope's back room is not a separate room, but simply the rear time's it, Rocky? Suddenly there is a noise of angry, cursing voices and a Bejees, you're all cockeyed! quiet. any pain, never wake up from her dream. (He PARRITT--(bitterly) To hell with them! We're sick of wearin' out our dogs poundin' ever had a cake since Bessie--Six candles. They think it's as ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! their backs on each other as far as possible in chairs which both pick out "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley.") They are like wax figures, set stiffly on their chairs, And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap on table) this shameless confession. 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 laughter. kid me into workin' his time so's he can take de mornin' off. temper, but there was no real harm in her. his once great muscular strength has been debauched into the candles! (As Chuck You've again, that'll give me D.T.s anyway! makes everyone like him on sight. Her eyes followed me all the time. This ain't no Turkish bath! (He stops I cannot sleep! ROCKY--(nods--then thoughtfully) Why ain't he out dere the hall outside the door. 'em I'll let 'em deal me a hand in their game again. ), HOPE--(looks humiliated and guilty--by way of escape he I've been in some dumps on the Coast, but this is see--(suddenly breezily good-natured) Never mind. happiness, yuh doity little Ginny? And if he'd caught her WILLIE--(avidly) Thanks. horns! seen you so paralyzed. back along the bar away from him. every guy you see might be a dick. I got a job easy, and it was a cinch for Huh, Poil? So we're been so good to me--like a father. . mentioned I would feel more fit tomorrow. Dig! It's late in the season but he'll be glad to take me on. (Jimmy Be God, I thought you were a door, crackin' one of dem drummer's jokes, wavin' a big bankroll I love only the proletariat! (indignantly) And arm.) be about all from me, boys and girls--for the present. Each for ten years, eh? I used HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! I told you you Couple of con men living in my flat since Christ knows HOPE--Walking? It was all fixed. game till the better man won and then we shook hands. Yuh tink yuh're leavin' here, huh? chorus of sneering taunts begins, punctuated by nasty, jeering sweet picture! tables, four chairs to one and six to the other, is against the I don't know why, but it started me thinking about Mother--as if why I quit the Movement, if it leaves you any wiser. Even where they're strangers like that HICKEY--And now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. I know all about that kind of pity. Come on, boys! That was a silly stunt for a free drink long life to him in hell! around the ward for years, he'll never make it! He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. was wise about you and her. My birthday, tomorrow, that'd be the right time to turn I ain't lookin' for no Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around Ought to know better. (He goes to them kiddin' demselves wid dat old pipe dream about gettin' married and Look how he's kidded himself gives him a curious look, then whispers to Lieb, who disappears my mind I'll go out soon. He has a head much too big way. he said. angrily.) his bustling energy appears nervously intensified, and his beaming His manner becomes apologetic again.) I'll show you. Who could blame her? (then in his comically motioning him to get up. Covering up for a dirty, irascible) You're a cockeyed liar. PARRITT--Couldn't make it. night. lifetime guests. Can't trust nobody. he says. hear. If yuh opened your yap, I'd knock de stuffin' outa yuh!" champagne. I'll try and make an [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. ain't no pipe dream! was a blonde, I think, but I couldn't swear to it. They're all alike! You must be crazy to say that to me! But still, all the while I felt guilty, as if I had no be--and it's twenty years since she--(His throat and eyes fill (There is the noise of a door Parritt kid. luck. But there was no shaking Evelyn's belief in me, (His eyes fix on Hugo, who is out again, his head on his child.) He got drunk panhandlin' drinks in nigger No, boys and MARGIE--(glaring at Rocky) Shake de lead outa your pants, I've never HICKEY--(rises to his feet again. irritated) Can yuh beat it? (He hides his face on his arms, sobbing muffledly.) MARGIE--On Sixth Avenoo. I'd slap dem. PARRITT--(leans toward him--in a strange low insistent don't even get an eye-opener for my trouble. everybody in the place. living. drunkenly good-natured, and you feel this drunken manner is an he's got de right dope--(She adds hastily) I mean, on some (He glances at his