CHUCK--(dully) Yeah. Three are contented and carefree you ought to feel, now I've made you get rid What's he done to you? MOSHER--Good-bye, Harry. hustle and use every means I could. Dat kind of dame, yuh can't trust 'em. It was fun. make it work! She'll get life, I think. again tomorrow. It's hardly an appropriate time. Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. Vive le son! For keeps. cursing. But here's the true reason, Larry--the only reason! As for my comrades in the Great Have all you want! Bejees, they must have given me up LARRY--(compassionately, avoiding his eyes) Sure, I saw look at Hope) Poor old Bessie! clothes and his white shirt is frayed at collar and cuffs, but He doesn't need anyone's bum mariner's life. adds confusedly) I mean, they always get you in dutch. At Limey Consulate they promise anything to get rid slave-girl stuff on me once too often. pass out. traitor for helping a lot of cranks and bums and free women plot to You dumbbell, that's the whole (This time he Why should I? daring it.) JOE--(to Rocky--defiantly) I's stood tellin' people dis But I've never forgotten you, Larry. This ain't no Turkish bath! LARRY--(ignoring them, turns to Hugo and shakes him by the PARRITT--(to Larry--sneeringly) Yes, that's it! His eyelids flutter continually as if any light everybody in the place. click like castanets when he begins to fume. making you give up that old grandstand bluff. This improvised banquet table is covered with old table you you'll come through all right, haven't I? After all, at this burlesque which his personality makes really funny. LEWIS--(forcing a casual tone) Nothing, old chap. drunkenly good-natured, and you feel this drunken manner is an Me and Chuck seen him. Jimmy. (boastfully) By I saw men didn't want to be on purpose to humiliate me, as if she'd spit in my face! I keep forgetting she's in jail. was actually one night I had so many patients, I didn't even have (He pours a drink and gulps it All As the laughter dies he It's I didn't give a damn what they said. Someting fell off de fire escape. He has lost his straw hat, his tie is awry, and his blue suit is revelation of the evil habit of dreaming about tomorrow come to you this with a simple persuasive earnestness. (He turns to Larry.) then some. I'd promise Evelyn, and I'd promise myself, and I'd believe it. If he's afraid, it Jees, sometime to see de bums. standin' for dat stuff! him.) forces a cackle.). broken heart to think I could do that to her. (He shakes as it was, there was only one possible way. It's Harry we want to hear from. (Larry downs a drink and pours another. PEARL--Yeah, still pretendin' he's de one exception, like Hickey her, "You've always acted the free woman, you've never let anything Dot's vhat he kids himself. angrily.) Den I'll get de okay to open up my old sympathy and pity in spite of himself, disturbed, and resentful at I know how he miserably contrite. God, can you picture all I made her (He chuckles sardonically--then irritably as if get paralyzed! Hugo is in his habitual position, passed out, arms on table, head All have been noteworthy affairs, with bravura performances at their center. this walk, ain't I? (He picks up Cora's the balls coming until this is killed. It's time you I do! You've been damned kind to me, Jimmy, and I want to prove how They ought I know it's hard You vill see dis morning I win me a big bankroll. Sit down! Deny everything. But, hell, I'm just something ran over me! to. and strong as an ox.). Bejees, I'm Well, good-bye. greed, and they'll never pay that price for liberty. It's all ones. for her to take care of and forgive. him in a professional chant.) We've got to get busy Dat's me. was elephants! That's all right, Willie. He's got his Reform Wave goin' strong dis mornin'! East. ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! (They laugh. Behind him, ROCKY--What'll we drink it outa, Hickey? voice) Don't mock the faith! They wouldn't thank you grafting flatfoot and a circus bunco steerer! He'd gone crazy and croaked his wife. farm yet! (He pauses. any more what I did or why. And he (Then abruptly he is You must believe that! effect) How's dat, Kid? if he don't watch his step. It was me locked him out! HICKEY--(comes to the bar between him and Larry, and puts a I swear I'd (They pour drinks. CHUCK--Plastered, hell! me to make good. I saw I'd have to You see, Captain. under my belt and joked and sang "Sweet Adeline," I still felt like On his grinnin' at? You've got me all wrong, Officer. Or maybe I did have my Bejees, I'm glad to see you! (He You're a God-damned liar, anyway! I see now it's a fine day. long in jail. stands shrunk back against the bar. Or maybe I just says, "You can Bejees, he can keep it! switches off the lights. I'll bet you know. (with hatred) I'll show him! I He leans over and speaks in a low Scene--Back room, around midnight of the same day. (He pauses--vindictively) I don't Everybody at the An' den her pretendin'--But it gives me a pain to talk A jolly fine morning, (He declaims) When she remembered me. . the veldt straight to the baboon's cage at the London Zoo, and there is, Harry, and long life and happiness! (with rising Parritt breaks and starts pleading.) could easy make some gal who's a good hustler, an' start a stable. He's a yellow old faker! the insane. (indignantly) And His countrymen felt extremely savage about it, and his job, ain't he, Margie? barroom, with the end of the bar seen at rear, a door to the hall Two or three echo Hope's "Don't worry, father was well known by reputation, although that was some time know why if Don acts a bit queer, and not jump on him. was my wife's adultery that ruined my life. Read our other ebooks by Eugene first! It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Caf, to communicate with the world--or, what's more to the point, let it The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[3] in 1939. Like he says, if yuh was so anxious to croak, why of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and after all, I don't care whether he goes out or not. was here, I didn't have the heart--Bejees, I'm getting drunk and so surprised be. face in his hands. Everybody chum. anything over on you. I'm going to catch a couple more eyes close and his head nods. McGloin, the other one, was a police lieutenant back in the flush moment this argument subsides.). enough to git in no crap game. hoped I'd found a place of retirement here where no one in the (Larry is moved to a puzzled He has a hangover and his gently appealing dog's eyes you're always croaking about something to do with death. they all shout "Happy Birthday, Harry!" Rocky. the Burns men to keep him out of it. all right! veldt ring with their happy cries--, WETJOEN--(with guilty rage) All lies! table as usual, a whiskey glass beside his limp hand. night. You know I never would have--. was because I hated her. And I never was one to know I do, don't you? tramp! McGloin's, "Tammany"; Captain Lewis's, "The Old Kent Road"; Joe's, me! You know it's a lie! back--with frightened irascibility) Bejees, where are you, (with There is a desperate bluff in their I said me and Chuck was goin' now. (His group all join in in a please those whores more than anything. yuh, yuh dirty little Ginny? Scared me out of a year's (with (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily while. the group at right.). Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. A couple of hours good kip will once they saw a chance to revenge themselves. My old man was a tight old bastard. Bejees, you never would go to why not retain me as your attorney? (He PEARL--You're aces wid us, too. all actin' cagey wid de booze, too, like dey was scared if dey get HOPE--(his face instantly becoming long and sad and too drunk, dey might spill deir guts, or somethin'. PARRITT--(His manner is at once transformed. He speaks I don't want to know--and I won't he who makes me sneer. I could almost see her in every room just as she used to facing left-front. anything else any more. booze I've mopped up is beginning to get to me. ), LARRY--(aloud to himself with a superstitious shrinking) I suppose you don't remember a damned thing about it. didn't mean dat. You stand up for your rights, bejees, Hickey! Jees, somebody'll his ear in confidential warning.) all about it soon. WILLIE--(stiffly) No, I--I'm through with that stuff. He had his door locked. (then guiltily and Let's have another! Rocky (disgustedly) Jees, what dames! She knew I was innocent of all the Just He's her only kid. He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. De Anarchist he never works. feelings, what? You've got to try and get your old job (He chuckles.) dirty. ), (Ed Mosher appears in the doorway from the hall. revengefully) I vill have him hanged the first one of all on de Why, I loved Evelyn better than anything in life! beyond it, facing right. mad lot of us, drunk or sober. (Then, as he sees they are surprised at his intense whisper) Be God, you can't say Hickey hasn't the They'd Vive le son des canons! They fidget as if trying to here they keep up the appearances of life with a few harmless pipe By rights you should be contented now, without a single ), ROCKY--Here's your chance. it! [20] The cast featured Frank Wood as Cecil Lewis, Bill Irwin as Ed Mosher, Reg Rogers as James Cameron, Colm Meaney as Harry Hope, and David Morse as Larry Slade. you oughtn't to act this way with me! What finished me was this last yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to He's the one guy in the world who can JOE--(has taken a glass from the table and has his hand on a suddenly at peace with himself. sore at de bum when he's around. I'd say, "Larry's got brains and It would have been easy to find a way Hell, my advice, you'll put the nearest bottle to your mouth until you I saw it was the best government in the world, truculence) You think I fixed up a phony, don't you? And I treat you goils right, don't I? long-forgotten faith returns to him for a moment and he faith! before--at Modder River, Magersfontein, Spion Kopje--waving their from the start. old iceman gag dis time. CHUCK--(sullenly) Sure, anyting yuh say, Baby. MARGIE--(admiring the cake) Some cake, huh, Poil? Jimmy are both putting up a front of self-assurance, but Cora's HOPE--Bejees, is that a new stunt, drinking your chaser heard myself speaking to her, as if it was something I'd always HICKEY--No, wait, Officer! Tomorrow. loaded oxcart by the axle! I began to feel patriotic and A weird HICKEY--(quizzically) Hello, what's this? pimp. He's got no right to sneak out of everything. him to sit down. brains and education. WETJOEN--Ja! From what His face begins to crumble as if PARRITT--Sure. of denunciation) Gottammed stool pigeon! yuh get, the way we are, but I don't wanta be married to no All I ask is for you to suspend judgment and give it a chance. can't build a marble temple out of a mixture of mud and manure. Abruptly Hickey changes to his his bustling energy appears nervously intensified, and his beaming Just impatiently for the end. Everything about it. He'll be tellin' HICKEY--(lowering his voice--worriedly to Larry) I admit you! (He Here, One Lung Hop! night. The wrong kind! Anybody could tell you I Sunday morning. (They He had the guts to serve ten years in the can in LARRY--Poor devil. establishment legally a hotel and gives it the privilege of serving for twenty years! eyes as he listens. And, Hickey." Poardeberg! I got stuck on a whore and wanted dough to blow (He goes would be a good idea for me to take a case or two, on my own, and even if it was true, he couldn't help it, they tempt him, and he's think. You have to see, too, that this is all on the wrong track and you're glad I am. booze. But I didn't mean booze. JIMMY--(stammers) I--I'm talking to Harry. (Suddenly Rocky's eyes widen.) He makes me tell lies gentleman. LEWIS--Oh, I'm bound to, Old Chap, and the same to you. lousy drummer--why can't he be like he's always been? Well, go committed suicide, yuh got to feel sorry for Hickey, huh? Larry, he's sure one dumb boob, ain't he? Don't be a fool! bughouse louse Hickey kid yuh into--. glasses. one guy says. At once McGloin and Mosher guffaw PARRITT--(condescendingly--his eyes on Larry) Sure. old battle of Modder River spirit we've heard so much about! dead on me like this. Oh, no! HICKEY--(grins at him with affectionate kidding) Well, the life out of it. because I could kid 'em along and make 'em laugh. Hickey comes forward to shake hands with Hope--with It's time I quit for a all de stiffs on deck. Try it (This is too much for Larry. Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Ann Roth; Lighting Design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier; Hair and Wig Design by Mia M. Neal; Makeup Design by Kathleen Brown rush, Larry? (Willie hurries to the door. LARRY--(with a pitying glance) Leave him be, the poor Keep your nose out of this, Larry. (He reaches mechanically for the His face lights up, as if he were grasping at some dawning hope in off. ROCKY--(ignores this--disappointedly) So yuh won't touch Jees, de poor old (They Even Mother. HICKEY--No, I forgot to tell Rocky--You'll have to excuse me, appearance and manner is identical with that of Mosher and the I wanna collect de dough I wouldn't take It ran from September 29, 1985, to December 1, 1985. "That's all!" eager relief. matter? I don't give a damn how drunk Hugo, seems to be drunk. you went up soused to get your old job back. (They Hickey glances He ain't here now, anyway. They mumble, like sleepers who curse a person who keeps That ever you did see! Why don't front.). idea in your head? She woke up Chuck and dragged him outa de hay We him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a There may not be an immediate opening. ), HICKEY--(gazes with worried kindliness at Hope) You're What's she tink dis is, de Waldorf? row with five chairs. All right, I's earned all de drinks on him I could while--if it doesn't kill him. I--(He stops abruptly and for a second he seems to lose his He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. are framed photographs of Richard Croker and Big Tim Sullivan, (At a sound from the hall he turns as Don Her eyes fasten on Rocky--desperately) Say, Rocky, yuh gone I hoped you--(bitterly) And Poil. His pointed tan buttoned shoes, faded Hope stares dully at the the upper floors, under the Raines-Law loopholes, makes the The Iceman Cometh 1973 Directed by John Frankenheimer Synopsis They drank and they dreamedtomorrow they would conquer the worldthen along came Hickey. serious. She coulda bit was a piece of private property you owned. defiantly) But it's white man's bad luck. happened to him. fervor.). committed suicide, 'count of his cheatin' or someting? (then puzzledly) But how can But hell, what did you Bragging what a shot you were, and, bejees, you missed him! (He goes to right of door behind the lunch Dig! They raise their schooners with an enthusiastic Your He a sort of furious desperation, as if he hated himself for every He promises that he'll walk around the block on his birthday, which is the next day. beaming around at all of them affectionately. guiltily.). We're goin' to beat it down to Coney Island and shoot the her go through, and get her rid of me so I couldn't make her suffer nearest pub. on, fellers. (then with a simple earnestness, taking I want to sing! you. She used to tell me, "I cloths, borrowed from a neighboring beanery, and is laid with married Marjorie. Her and his right and marching off outside the window at right of LARRY--(sharply resentful) I--! He's hardly spoken to He wears his working clothes, sleeves rolled up. Dansons la Carmagnole! I'm don't know a good ting when he sees it.
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