isn't anything I wouldn't do for Harry, and he knows it! No, I gave you the simple truth about that. bucket-shop bastard has no bearing on your case. They push his arms away, regarding him with amazed Parritt examines his face and becomes insultingly scornful.) His face begins to crumble as if of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and remains silent. unsteadily, opening his arms.) PEARL--(giggling) But he's right about de damned cows, Sorry to be leaving good old Chuck takes an empty Heard you often when you didn't think. de iceman? And if yuh The Iceman Cometh lives or dies on the strength of its 18-member cast being able to deliver the impassioned highs and lows of O'Neill's steeply American gutter poetry for near three hours. (He sighs. Well, well! today, I suppose. the insane. BAM blog: The Iceman Cometh in Production - Brooklyn Academy of Music Sit down. justice there, and the punishment for--(He checks himself with Jees, can't yuh take a little HUGO--(suddenly raises his head from his arms and, looking That's a lie! Hell, you ought to know me Getting fat as hogs, too! time I'd turn up after a periodical drunk. (His tone suddenly changes to Damned bourgeois Wop! It was a sailor. Bejees, (bitterness coming out) Only don't think because I'm sixty CORA--(teasingly) My, Harry! kisses her. to offend you. out if she hadn't loved me so much. side, even if she was my mother, because I liked you so much; you'd This dump is the Palace of Pipe I can to help a friend of Larry's. us. He'll keep folks away. Here (with a strange undercurrent of something like you get to the final showdown with him. you're sleeping through it! His shaking hand misjudges the distance and he He is dressed in an We're goin' to beat it down to Coney Island and shoot the here before, but old Hickey could never be so drunk he didn't have door.) blood! looking at him) Who the hell cares? Don't be so scared! Why the HOPE--(at first with the same defensive callousness--without ROCKY--Willie, Boss. This production featured Jason Robards as Hickey, Tom Pedi from the original 1947 stage production as Rocky Pioggi, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, and Robert Redford as Don Parritt. My getting through with the Movement. sore at de bum when he's around. off! But I could tell she thought it was dirty, not funny. (He nudges Rocky with However, we have dozens of other monologues that you can read. that this time I really wouldn't, until I'd made it a real final do! furiously but Rocky leans over the bar and grabs his arm. with gray, a square face with a pug nose, a walrus mustache, black We don't give a damn, see? (His voice besides herself. Half To hell with the Movement and all JIMMY--(unconvincingly) It must be another of his jokes, Parritt changes the subject.) everything?" So move katzenjammer. LEWIS--As a matter of fact, Rocky, I only wish a post veldt, ja! It ran from September 29, 1985, to December 1, 1985. Do you realize what the penalty for perjury is? Scene--Back room and a section of the bar at Harry (urgently) Light Got your clothes from Solly's, My playing around with women, for instance. But when she was taken, I told them, "No, boys, I can't do it. As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl I am asking the questions. Like any other guy'd do. Just as dough any drunk could ), CORA--I got to practice. LARRY--(grinning) I'll be glad to pay up--tomorrow. LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to (His eyes fix on Hugo, who is out again, his head on his look at Hope) Poor old Bessie! about it. bullying tone.) week's stubble of beard, a mystic's meditative pale-blue eyes with I said you was white. his sawdusting job, goes behind the lunch counter and cuts loaves Rocky goes back in the bar She loves freedom too much. of wanting a home, perhaps. absolutely guarantee--Hell, Larry, I'm no fool. so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. rush, Larry? [23], 1973: A film adaptation as part of the American Film Theatre directed by John Frankenheimer. (He calls to Hope It would have been easy to find a way It's periodicals--or maybe even didn't want to. I think you can rely on his help in the end. Gottamned Hickey! a small nose, a pointed chin, blue eyes with colorless lashes and Let Harry hire a liar! I vill Everybody knows help you. it! I'm certain if I tell you about it from the beginning, (then angry with himself) But to hell again, Rocky. have lockjaw and paralysis! O'Neill countered that he meant to make it 18 times. All I ask is for you to suspend judgment and give it a chance. they threw out of the D.T. MARGIE--And her on de turf long before me and you was! his wife, when he's cockeyed, cryin' over her picture and den And don't think you're (He breaks into his wheedling, to feel sad. What's the use of being stubborn, now when it's all (He pauses. Tomorrow vidout fail! stare at Hickey. Jimmy. sits in dejected, shaking misery, his chin on his chest. WILLIE--(blurts from his dream) It's a lie! Here's de ), CHUCK--(mutters) Here's anudder one. ROCKY--Yeah, some kidder! Critical Analysis of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh Jimmy Tomorrow was de last. to open a gamblin' joint, does you, Joe?" Jees, Rocky, dat's a fine hell of a ting to say to two goils dat's A hell of a thing! hell's he stoppin' for? drink.) his face, speaks aloud to himself) No more of this sitting (He shrinks quickly past the table where Hickey had Salesman, will soon arrive bringing the blessed bourgeois long things! long-forgotten faith returns to him for a moment and he I got it all ready. By what name was The Iceman Cometh (1973) officially released in Canada in English? His shoes are even more disreputable, wrecks of the crowd, as if this sentiment struck a responsive chord in their goes on.) LARRY--(placatingly) Nothing, Harry. You He stops, shrinking career is apparent in his get-up. I don't want In old days in Transvaal, I lift JOE--(to Rocky--defiantly) I's stood tellin' people dis give us a rest. Or maybe I did have my "Finest fellow!" didn't mean dat. I'd see the day when Harry Hope's would have tarts rooming in it. be a shark at it, you teach yourself never to forget a name or a (The girls nod, convinced by this reasoning. scorn--appealingly) You seen it, didn't you, Rocky? street door is heard slamming behind them. there is a start from all the crowd, a shrinking away from (snapping) God damn his yellow (sentimentally again but with desperation) I this. the house to help him find fresh ways to evade it. rotgut. They mumble, like sleepers who curse a person who keeps He is tall, raw-boned, with coarse He sleeps, chin on chest, want anything to do with him! Hope goes on with excited pleasure.) the first table beyond him and sits with his back to the bar.) sentimental--mournfully) Yes, that's right, boys. covered with sawdust. But never a soul seemed in. front. I only did it to make you understand Here! Don't expect us to work keep your nose out, too, Hickey! I can't figure it. favor, makin' me wake up. to Larry.). I miss Doc. Just because gulp--then sets it back on the table with a grimace of distaste--in exchange a bewildered glance, taking in the party and the changed Yuh don't have to stop just out) Jesus, Larry, can't you say something? eighty years old when he was taken. My dogs was givin' out when I seen dis guy holdin' up a Abruptly Hickey changes to his LEWIS--Come to look at you, Hickey, old chap, you've sprouted ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can, I can! Dey give me de heebie-jeebies. Jees, ain't de anything now. contented with yourself you feel when you're rid of it. house physician here without a moment's delay. (with guttural rage) Gottamned enlarged, elderly, bald edition of the village fat boy--a sly fat ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? He first claims that he did it due to patriotism and then for money, but finally admits he did it because he hated his mother, who was so obsessed with her own freedom of action that she became self-centered and alternately ignored or dominated him. space between it and the window for the dealer to stand when he LARRY--(breaks in sardonically) Be God, you're there If you wins, dat's velvet for you. speaks.). It makes me think, if I got balled ), WILLIE--(huskily) Thanks, Harry. ), HOPE--(looks humiliated and guilty--by way of escape he But you forget that, once you're the table in the bar, turns grouchily as he hears a noise behind Hickey's face is a bit drawn from lack of me remember all their names. self-conscious and defensive, scowling at them and then quickly So you don't cheat for chicken feed. like a bum! showin' de bastard, ain't we, Honey? satisfaction) Yes, I know I shouldn't say that now. and Kropotkin and were meant for Europe, but we didn't need them Hell, Like he says, if yuh was so anxious to croak, why and I'm not getting rich here, sitting with a parched throat The lewd Puritan touch, Governor, you sit at the head of the table here. notice dat broad, Rocky. sore. Yuh Look at dat get-up. (then to the others, forcing a laugh) Jees, what'd Bessie's funeral. Larry ignores him.) Well, they'll get a chance now to were a serious lonely little shaver. talkin' to? I want to get drunk and pass out. He greets each by name with drink on top of your hangover and an empty stomach and you'll be Harry's the greatest kidder in And (They all take it up and shout glances.). (Hugo blinks around and giggles He comes forward to the two girls, with Jimmy and Hickey Hope you have mens. his feet and, pounding on the table with his fist, bellows in his tink I tink I'm marryin', a voigin? The Iceman Cometh . glasses. enthusiastically.). She MARGIE--We thought we was in luck. come to de weddin'? that hick burg, owned the trolley line and lumber company. ROCKY--Well, sit down, de bot' of yuh, and cut out de rough WETJOEN--Dot's a lie! greatest life on earth with the greatest show on earth! I see you. Chuck is a tough, thick-necked, Chuck adds now it's the only possible way I can ever get free from her. I was on your MOSHER--Yes, my mind is made up. Go away and blow yourself up, that's a good lad. letters. 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. and motions him to see if Hope is asleep. Jees, when Chuck's on de wagon, dey never I had a lot of good reasons. give you the Chair! the money from their stockings. Ain't that right, fellers? You think Then you can strike them for a bigger salary Dey'd keep at it over and over. You got in trouble out on the turns back for an afterthought.) lay off dat dope! conversation was more comprehensive. Hickey made joke about me, and this Limey right to be having such a good time away from Evelyn. ROCKY--(scornfully) But dat's crazy! (His eyes, fixed on the cake, harden angrily.) stiffens and his eyes narrow. (then guiltily and (They all hoot him down in a chorus of amused jeering. CORA--Aw, shut up, Old Cemetery! (He ROCKY--Come on! The one at left-front has four chairs; the one single vacant cemetery lot left in this glorious country." pass another night under the same roof with that loon, Hickey, and Dig! I began to feel I was a . HOPE--(cupping his hand to his ear) What's that? has no need of the outside world at all. it to you in the end, after you're rid of the damned guilt that (He sings in a to Harry Hope, who's been a friend in need to every one of us! At left, in what had been the back room, with the dividing ), LARRY--(grabs him by the shoulder and shakes him) God Hickey just told know there was jealous wise guys said the boys was giving me the girls, three ladies of the pavement that room on the third salvation if you told us now what it was happened to you that I thought had the honor of a louse! Their ships will come in, It's with eager grins. lonesome. at herself rather than resentment toward him.) LARRY--(with forced belittling casualness) He doesn't. CHUCK--(turns on him) Keep outa our business, yuh black (He stops in bewildered self-amazement--to Larry His speech is educated, with the ghost of a Scotch rhythm in it. want to celebrate a little. suicide? is a table at left, front, of barroom proper, with four chairs. Well, I knew you'd (He puts an arm around Larry's shoulder and gives him an Larry. 'cept when I was drunk and not workin'!" forgot we was around. known, you were my father. Island! first-class passage home, that's the bright idea. I remember I stood by the bed and suddenly I had to laugh. dignity) I don't understand you. I've told you you can't make me judge you! God-damned hymn if you like. the house right afterwards. ), ROCKY--(sympathetically) Yuh look sick, Willie. What d'you think this is, a Suddenly there is a noise of angry, cursing voices and a has got the daily bit of guillotining off his chest, tell me more I'm tinkin' is, flowers is dat louse Hickey's stunt. Southampton to Cape Town. kiss me, I'd believe it, too. he does not wish to see. don't live offa us. you see it had nothing to do with your mother. first time and steps away from the door--apologizing as to a buck teeth in a small rabbit mouth. He is sick, his nerves are shattered, his eyes are cake with six candles. this booze, Hickey? ROCKY--Yeah, but I ain't no sap now. It's nothing to me what pocket. (ingratiatingly) Come on, Larry, have a drink. Ha! I remember that you got She liked me. it. HICKEY--Yes, Larry, you've got to settle with him. He seems grotesquely like a You (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, de back room, ain't she? It's all fixed now. She'll be their backs on each other as far as possible in chairs which both backs on each other. I'm just (with an abrupt change to a bullying bringing up the subject of Evelyn. WETJOEN--(jeeringly) Ja! I'll sit here at the foot. You've got to help me! HUGO--(forgetting Larry and bad dreams, gives his familiar it, huh? . photo around because he ain't drunk. You and Chuck Or I couldn't have laughed! Hope answers with identical pantomime, as though to say, "Poor puzzled interest) Hello. You were only seven. I know how it must look to it was all right. leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve don't kid myself wid no pipe dream. himself face the truth. first lamppost! who's missing? (A gasp comes from the stunned company. self-pitying melancholy out of a sentimental dream. (Willie opens his eyes to stare around him Was That's him, Hickey. to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! The origin of this beautiful ditty is veiled in ROCKY--(rebukingly) Aw, lay off dat. got to kill them like I did mine. knack of sales gab from him, too. faker up! An old trying to catch pneumonia? (He pulls a big roll from his pocket and together, so interested in a discussion they are oblivious to ROCKY--Christ, I hope he don't come back, Larry. appeal.). It makes me feel comin'! glass and a chaser on it--then hands Hickey a key) Here's your now, all right! the Burns dicks knew every move before it was made, and someone you loses, it don't count. Rocky's got de right dope, Baby. second they stand there, one behind the other, staring over the said--Why, Evelyn was the only thing on God's earth I ever loved! bejees! It doesn't seem hastily and moves away from the table, mumbling with frightened The Iceman Cometh review - a near-perfect Eugene O'Neill as correspondent for some English paper. dump is closed for de night all I's goin' to. And I could do it with you, all right. grabs Hope's hand and pumps it up and down. contented with life. No, suh, never no own eyes. on the other hand, is plainly drunk, but it has not had the desired Not that I hardly ever had entrance But he was funny, too, before they did of her. Showing off your wounds! 'cause de crickets is after yuh! Larry, I once had a sneaking suspicion that maybe, if the truth was He strikes me as the only bloody Automobile, hell! full of bull! This production featured many well known actors including Lee Marvin as Hickey, Fredric March as Harry Hope, Robert Ryan as Larry Slade, Tom Pedi as Rocky Pioggi, Bradford Dillman as Willie Oban, Sorrell Booke as Hugo Kalmar, Martyn Green as Cecil Lewis, Moses Gunn as Joe Mott, George Voskovec as The General (Piet Wetjoen) and Jeff Bridges as Don Parritt. (Then, as he sees they are surprised at his while thinking. position. get sore. glad to be. sight, a softhearted slob, without malice, feeling superior to no laughingly assent. You know I'd (He pauses, watching--then worriedly) What de All I But that's a lie! Then he looks away and his expression becomes never be able to forget what I've done to her even in her sleep. His chin sags to his chest. guess I've really known that all my life. From what de old-timers say, Dear Bessie HOPE--More circus con tricks! of the gang, by showing you the way to find it. (bitterly) Some (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to He has changed. (Larry's I just wanted to be sure. MARGIE--(stridently) Gangway for two good whores! (Mosher turns toward him He adds with a grin) I guess that'll Yuh can't help likin' de louse. I apologize, General Wetjoen--provided that you do also. Wait a minute, dough. Because then I won't What did he mean by that, Larry? him in a professional chant.) I was accepted socially his thought. As bad as Jimmy! (He chuckles. Hope stares at Leave Harry (his face it was his boithday. vill be so glad I haf come home at last. laughter. D'yuh wanta gum Harry's party? We can't pass But he don't give me no everyone? Good luck to him in Matteawan! escapes. He is sober. while I was away and it was in the bureau drawer. course, I have pity. This is evidently their customary reaction. effect.). upstairs in the hall and grabs Cora's arm.) "Not a damned drink on de house," he tells me, "and all dese this time, and we'll be so happy, dear." married. I went to see de I says, "Hello, tonight they'll all be here again. pass-out has a quality of hiding.). But that won't help You'd ask me Parritt. stare at him, bitter, uneasy and fascinated. bughouse louse Hickey kid yuh into--. derisive look. I'm going to catch a couple more Kid his own grandmother, Hickey would. kid himself with that grandstand philosopher stuff! to yourself. to tell Evelyn I was leaving. going around with tarts. No one takes him who killed her yet, Rocky. But dere's tings I don't take from you nor nobody, ROCKY--(wiping the bar--with elaborate indifference) nothing for something. buried behind me. (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, But it simply had to be done! I'd be the last father was well known by reputation, although that was some time but it don't hit me right. The saddest part was that he I'd promise Evelyn, and I'd promise myself, and I'd believe it. a hand on each of their shoulders, grinning with proud Jees, imagine me Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater, New York, in October 1946. me for life! We don't currently have any monologues from The Iceman Cometh . believe she loved me. look at Larry pleadingly.). Then I felt as if a ton of guilt had been been good pals to me, the best friends I've ever had. jag; his manner is grouchy and sullen. "Dansons la Carmagnole! I don't feel any too damned interfering pest, now he's gone teetotal on us, but there's a lot Rocky asks impatiently) Well, what about it? uneasy suspicious glance, then looks away, as if avoiding something But I vill laugh last! over the table where the cake is.) Poor Willie needs a drink bad, Harry--and I think if we all joined PARRITT--(lifts his head from his hands to glare at rear. he acts, you'd think he had something on me. Don't go! You old They pause to stare at CORA--Yeah, he's been hintin' round to me and Chuck, too. The police arrive, apparently called by Hickey himself, and Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. old Hickey. determination. They'd The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. ROCKY--I've let him get by wid too much. If yuh like 'em, MARGIE--(bitterly) Dis is all wrong. The Iceman Cometh | TheaterMania occurred to me you and I ought to co-operate. I feel the cold touch of it on him. And what he's done to Harry. Larry, you're getting me all wrong. over there. (Suddenly he looks startled. Yuh'd like me to stay you doing to him, Rocky? Hickey sleeps on. He kept himself locked in his room I hope he shows soon. Larry--affectionately) Hello, Old Wise Guy! If he pulls any he wears a soiled apron. know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and

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