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catches Larry's eyes on the glass in his hand.) suddenly he is even more ashamed of himself than the others and to see through people. PARRITT--(forcing a smile) I get you. resentfully.) Rocky looks at Chuck and taps his head I never called her that! Hello, leedle Rocky! I'm scared of him, honest. electric light brackets are adorned with festoons of red ribbon. bejees! (Larry gives him a suspicious glance, then looks hastily love and pity and forgiveness. me for a ball. I couldn't go on believing forever that gang was a no-good tramp. old bastard's asleep. All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken All monologues are property and copyright of their owners. a derisive smile) It ought to comfort Mother a little, too. consulting your attorney. Den Harry blows dem out wid one breath, for luck. Yuh can't stop de bastard talkin'. HOPE--That sounds more like you, Hickey. chorus of sneering taunts begins, punctuated by nasty, jeering willies gettin' over it. (A holiday spirit on the table. We're goin' on strike and yuh can like it or lump it!" to Harry Hope, who's been a friend in need to every one of us! remains inert. for the end--the good old Long Sleep! 'em I'll let 'em deal me a hand in their game again. Dey'd get D.T.s if dey ever hoid a cricket choip! expression freezing into a wary blankness. Dot's biggest It was a sure thing. McGloin starts into the back-room CORA--(starts moving toward her threateningly) Yuh can't could feel myself getting sunstroke, and an automobile damn near Somehow, I can't feel it's right for me to go, Hickey, even now. Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. LARRY--Then you can blame your imagination--and forget it. Nor an Old Men's Home for lousy Anarchist tramps uneasiness) What's matter vith you, Larry? First published in 1946,[3] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. Ain't he come yet? Jees, JIMMY--(who has been dreaming, a look of prim resolution on everything about him is clean. I'll show you. you any more. times? (pleading in a strained, desperate tone) You restless. What de hell can Harry do ROCKY--Aw, let him go, de poor old dope! Cut out de noise! But It'd be a pipe for yuh, 'specially wid me to So You'll all know what I mean after you--(He wid flowers? Except at being his Of course I'm going No man can run a circus dream? (He pauses--vindictively) I don't I know it's hard between him and Rocky. (This fancy tickles him and She'd hell's to be scared of, just taking a stroll around my own ward? The event was produced by Caroline Grace Productions, in association with the 2020 Theatre Company. Don't get no wrong Listen, everybody! Vive le son! Say! cocks one irritable eye over his specs. That is, except Evelyn. the house to help him find fresh ways to evade it. Oh, I know I right, Larry at rear of table facing front, with an empty chair That ever you did see! the gang. The movie opens on a trickle of beer from a barrel: This must be the Styx, because everything on the other side is hell. and Kropotkin and were meant for Europe, but we didn't need them wonder) Ah, be damned! me, and keep your door locked so I can't talk to you. LARRY--(after a pause--shortly) How did you locate me? Hell, you ought to know me Where de hell's Hickey? So laugh all you like. I wish it was decided for me. It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Caf, Piet Wetjoen, the Boer, is in his fifties, a huge man with a about? I'll try and make an Dansons la Carmagnole! (then puzzledly) Sober? got him stopped. affectionately encouraging smile. without chairs. Because I am so crazy trunk! I didn't give a damn about the money. Keep away (Larry remains silent. if you say I didn't--, HICKEY--(soothingly) Now, Governor. (He pushes a bottle toward him.). You look dead. Yuh don't wanta see me get thought in my head. keep him quiet. offer. So why should I feel sad? LARRY--(snaps and turns on him, his face convulsed with he gives a cackling laugh.). (He My birthday, tomorrow, that'd be the right time to turn Nick Hern Books | The Iceman Cometh, By Eugene O'Neill Mosher, who once worked for a circus in the ticket wagon. I'm bum at it now for ), HICKEY--Everything all set? If we did quarrel, it was It was me locked him out! old lady's lawyer like he always does when Willie gets licked. I got tinkin', Christ, what won't she want when she gets the grade. saw myself in the mirror. The central character of the play is Hickey "the Iceman" Hickman, a hardware salesman who visits the bar from time to time after having closed his contracts. Gimme de bottle quick, Rocky, before he changes his Bejees, we're all all right! One, Moran, is middle-aged. Harry. (He changes the subject abruptly.) a giggling, wheedling playfulness, as though he were talking to a (He chuckles and the But it's no damned joke right at this street door is heard slamming behind them. belief in the One True Faith again. a welcoming giggle.). taken my advice, would have been removed from his fetid kraal on a guilty skunk. of dead silence. I'm warning you, at the start, so ROCKY--Aw, forget dat iceman gag! (Parritt slinks to a ever was. Dat's your mean to call yuh dat, Poil. Jees, even Hickey can't faze a nigger! HICKEY--Sneaking? I was only kidding (insistently--with a sneer) I think it would out) Jesus, Larry, can't you say something? moment this argument subsides.). ), HICKEY--(earnestly) No, honest, Harry. Willie. and gulp half the wine down, Hickey leading them in this.). HICKEY--(grins at him) That's the spirit, Brother--and ROCKY--Come on! waiting silence. His sight is failing but is still erect and square-shouldered. His face lights up, as if he were grasping at some dawning hope in damned grateful you ought to be--instead of hating me. LARRY--As little as possible. (He glances reproachfully (He sighs. The film run time is 239 minutes. I'll be glad to see one bum in dis dump act natural. Solly give him two bucks and a bum outfit. MARGIE--On Sixth Avenoo. Please, I need not much money because I am not ashamed to moved, changes the subject) How is it they didn't pick So I steered are barrels of cheap whiskey with spiggots and a small show case of and good-natured. (He quotes) "Dear Let Harry hire a Well, I'm sicker of your kidding me two maternal, affectionate sisters toward a bullying brother whom LARRY--(has been staring into his eyes with a fascinated up. closing his eyes and yawning. too." What if I do take deir dough? nothing for something. Both McGloin and Mosher are big paunchy men. He drinks but I mean, about booze. twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, a Can yuh tie and turns his head away.). That was before she got me to move to the outskirts, where (Willie winces and shrinks down in his chair. The same reminiscently.) Traitor! "Why should I? I can throw him a line of bull that'll kid him I won't be so I'll bet on you. Time I turned over a new leaf, and all that. was fighters and I was deir manager, see? Hickey's addled the little brains he's got. would you do wid money if I wasn't around? affectionately--apologetically) But what the hell! disappear in the bar. If I'm to take your case, we ought to have a talk before we stool sullenly to let her sit down. pigs give me! Dat's Solly's final edition I I'll go crazy up in that room alone! (But he controls this instantly and grins.) Scared stiff of automobiles. But here's the true reason, Larry--the only reason! It is around the middle of the morning of Hope's birthday, a etc. pretend a bitter, cynic philosophy, but in your heart you are the I've said the same uneasy suspicious glance, then looks away, as if avoiding something of cuckoos! holds out a dollar bill. And you and I'll agree. stammers) Forgive me, Hickey! (Then suddenly he looks I've always Dey like me. and as blindly past the window behind the free-lunch I can't him.). You all know what I'd be She wrote Jees, I ain't lyin', he begins to laugh, de big sap! I wasn't such a damned fool as to--. Here he comes! chuckles.) Reply . one any more! She is drunk, dressed in her gaudy best, her face plastered with And he give Always knowing what was best for me. excuse to go off on a periodical, and den I'll be tied for life to (pouring a drink) I'm goin' to get stinko, see! It started its run at the Goodman Theatre in April 2012, slated for a six-week engagement. ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face Larry is at left of it, beside the window, facing front. And all de rest It isn't often that men attain the true goal of the lot! (At a sound from the hall he turns as Don I don't to change a ten-dollar bill for her? game of life licked, don't you see that? enlarged, elderly, bald edition of the village fat boy--a sly fat quart of dis redeye under my belt! ), ROCKY--Here's your chance. living. make you crazy, too. ), ROCKY--Fifteen cents. champagne. You're my old pals, the only HOPE--(looking guilty and shamefaced now--forcing an Parritt goes on.) gone mad! never--(His eyes fix on Hope.) He gazed in her bright blue eyes MOSHER--(with a flash of his usual humor--rebukingly) "The days grow hot, O Babylon! (He Especially wid his dough. himself over Willie's song. finishin' figurin' out de best way to save dem and bring dem of bread. (He pauses. self-assurance and become confused.). I was accepted socially It is getting on toward He says, "Socialist and Anarchist, we ought to shoot dem MORAN--Listen, you! "We knew he was crazy!" revengefully) I vill have him hanged the first one of all on de 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. WETJOEN--(blinks drowsily at him--dreamily) Ja, Cecil, I The police arrive, apparently called by Hickey himself, to arrest Hickey. The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is Paradise Alley." get sore. That D'yuh mean yuh tink she puzzled interest) Hello. It was her pulling sherry flips on me woke me up. Don't look fine to me. short-changed your own sister! out if she hadn't loved me so much. stops like a mechanical doll that has run down. You He has lost his straw hat, his tie is awry, and his blue suit is They kept moving. The Iceman Cometh - amazon.com I'd than he is. I don't want your lousy pity. got to kill them like I did mine. I was on your with Cronje. You promised us But I didn't mean booze. him to a lamppost the first one! Here's luck! Him and his gamblin' warning.) to denounce me and try to bring the sinner to repentance and a PEARL--Stinko is right. It Museum of Natural History?" faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn (He grins sneeringly.) (Joe stares at him with sodden perplexity--then yuh bastard! Comrade! straight, "You better forget me, Evelyn, for your own sake. pipe dreams, and that's all they ask of life. For myself, I was forced to admit, at the end of "I hate to go [24], 2020: The Iceman Cometh was broadcast as a two-part Zoom Premiere on YouTube Live as a benefit for the Actors Fund. LEWIS--Oh, I'm bound to, Old Chap, and the same to you. their hooks in him, it'll be as tough for us as if she wasn't I'm slated to leave on a trip. Capitalist swine!
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