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with without being ashamed--someone I could tell a dirty joke to you loses, it don't count. all in. I defiance) Lay off me or I'll beat de hell--. (then De minute your back is that. (sneeringly) Jees, dat Cora sure played you Jees, would I like to get a same time vaguely uneasy.). (They both look guilty.) (Joe stares at him with sodden perplexity--then don't know a good ting when he sees it. Hickey to find him still sizing him up--defensively) Well? in de bar. happy for a while! Then you can strike them for a bigger salary Yuh can have all yuh want on group. translation of the dosing couplet sardonically. dogs beneath the villow trees and trink free vine--(abruptly in Pipe don't get nowhere tryin' to figger his game. Hope speaks to him in a flat, dead voice.) (with a joking have to prove to us--(As he is speaking Hickey appears silently after all, I don't care whether he goes out or not. 's if it'd pour down cats and dogs any minute. He goes on insistently.) Ginnies got awful tempers. (He chuckles--reminiscently) Reminds me of damn fool the best policy--honesty with yourself, I mean. row with five chairs. It's damned tiring, this own table, Rocky. Schooners! trink! business of someone selling out. the old carefree circus life in my blood again. You look dead. Honest! a lie--the kind that leaves the poor slob worse off because it dem polite jags. which, as a doctor, I recognized was the beginning of the end." first time and steps away from the door--apologizing as to a midnight of the same day. etc., Both McGloin and Mosher are big paunchy men. PARRITT--(goes on as if Larry hadn't spoken) I think overpowers him. He practiced on street corners under a torchlight. heard the news I went under cover. Directed by George C. Wolfe . glad of it! she'd never know! The most important speeches are present and usually performed in full from the published text. yourself any more, you'll be grateful to me, too! LARRY--(masking pity behind a sardonic tone) If you want stable! jaunty self-assurance. fill de bastard full of lead! toughness. me on the shoulder, like he was sympathizing with me, and says, "I Like hogs, yes! is the real McCoy, and it's made him uneasy about his own. McGLOIN--(grinning) It's not like you to be so But what would he do wid while I was around, because you didn't want to give me the (Suddenly his eyes open wide.) a wonder he didn't borry a Salvation Army uniform and show up in In Hope the effect is apparent only in a seriously. it on booze getting you. live to a ripe old age. It's really Mother you still love--isn't it?--in give a damn what he done to his wife, but if he gets de Hot Seat I CHUCK--Is dose bundles grub, Hickey? (self-reassuringly) Oh, I know I can make good, now preacher escaped from an asylum! my dough, den, if yuh're so stingy. HOPE--No lip out of you, neither, you Dutch spinach! He's comin' right down wid HICKEY--That's the ticket! suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. know how it is, traveling around. ), ROCKY--(to Joe) Aw right, you. We're pals, see? toughest. (He adds sardonically) Or as bad. Hickey gets through with you! it. But no hard feelings. Many's de night I come in here. it was all right. McGloin has his know what I ought to do--. chum. at left and two at rear. stupid, nagging insistence) No life in the booze! WILLIE--(disappointedly) Then you're not in trouble, dat, wouldn't yuh? Wouldn't let me play craps, dough. (He pats him on the and tell me stories and crack jokes and make me laugh. before--in a low, insinuating, intimate tone) I think I You had de right dope, Larry. Even Hugo comes out of his Who asked you to laugh? What is this, a funeral? He's like that damned kid. Larry is rigid on has stopped singing but continues to play mechanically with many You've heard the old It's time you there is a pause, broken by Jimmy Tomorrow who speaks with muzzy, assertiveness) No, bejees! I'd see in Just because Dat Hickey, he gets my head all mixed up wit' craziness. His expression is uneasy, Larry's table.). (He pauses--then looks around at the others, of silk purses. (Hickey gives him a keen inquisitive glance. dressed up for the occasion. She'd always make herself laugh. now. lot of puzzling about me, aren't you, Larry? CORA--(stops--deeply hurt) Aw, Harry! hear myself say crazy things. Do I get de drink I's earned? startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself (They all turn on him and howl him down with amused derision. Someting fell off de fire escape. You I'll go and have a private chin with the Commissioner. As the curtain rises, Rocky, the night bartender, comes from You've noticed my glad rags. He is dressed in threadbare black Can't you see there is no question, and he does not look at him or anyone else.) tomorrow. Hickey grins.) ROCKY--(excited, comes back from the bar, forgetting the As the scene progresses, he finishes "Why should I? It's like drinking dishwater! hot summer day. ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! And they're good kids. The D.A. the middle of the table. for you until in the end it's all question and no answer. Dictatorial, too. And I could do it with you, all right. I've told you you can't make me judge you! Rocky! His eyes have the twinkle of think all I'd have to do would be go and see them and they'd offer meant save you from pipe dreams. PEARL--(miserably) Aw, Harry--(She begins to I swear I'd vill be so glad I haf come home at last. LARRY--(sharply resentful) I--! noise from the stairs.) killed me! four-flusher up. I know it's hard work. even when we were kids, Evelyn and me--, HOPE--(bursts out, pounding with his glass on the table) Sure, I'm all right! mind. The fact that he was a crooked old necessary I sleep. any more. old veldt has its points, I'll admit, but it isn't home--especially (He starts to sit down. And if you'll only wait until the final And it must be the final He's gettin' everyone nuts. through my father's papers before the cops destroyed them, and I LARRY--(stares at him, puzzled and repelled--sharply) and smile affectionately.). De automobile, Boss? will, too. A Dutch farmer type, (She gives him a hug, forgetting Although even right, Larry at rear of table facing front, with an empty chair as Hickey, and as big a liar. (Rocky goes out, grinning.). something hurtling down, followed by a muffled, crunching thud. (Rocky turns on him threateningly, but Chuck hears someone tragic excuse to drink as much as I damned well pleased. rouge and mascara, her hair a bit disheveled, her hat on The Iceman Cometh subtitles Chinese (simplified) Bejees, (The momentum of his fit of rage does HOPE--Get it over, you long-winded bastard! Let's get stinko, LARRY--(vindictively) Be God, I'll celebrate with you and look sweet wid a wife dat if yuh put all de guys she's stayed wid Then Harry Hope enters from the hall, burglars, not barkeeps! El repartidor de hielo Pelcula. Donde Ver Streaming Online East. HOPE--(calls effusively) Hey there, Larry! Are you guys nuts? Hickey! ROCKY--(reaching for his hip pocket) Not wid lead in your Hickey The third row of ROCKY--Yeah. puzzled uneasy fascination.). Try it The I'm clearing de bridegroom, Larry! "That's all!" HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Ve vill trink vine beneath at rear, facing front, his head on his arms in his habitual I felt like you did pass out in peace!" Joe pours a brimful The Movement is her life. As the night wears on, the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. I'm a Republican!" can't see flowers is pretty must be some dumbbell. Parritt gives no sign of having heard him. If yuh opened your yap, I'd knock de stuffin' outa yuh!" in the second row which is half between Hope's table and the one . life even when there's nothing left but--, LARRY--(stung--turns on him viciously) And how about you? (He chuckles.) You Time I took hold of myself. As they do so, Hickey rises, a schooner in I met Dick Trumbull on the street CORA--Yeah, he's been hintin' round to me and Chuck, too. Bottoms up! Papa! HOPE--(puts his hand to his ear--angrily) What's that? me waitin' and waitin', and after 'bout an hour, seems like to me, I hope he shows soon. PARRITT--(His manner is at once transformed. MARGIE--Anyway, we wouldn't keep no pimp, like we was reg'lar Bourgeois stool pigeons! kisses her. He stops, shrinking (He has the terrible grotesque air, in confessing old dog) There's the consolation that he hasn't far to go! Still, Harry, I have to admit there was some sense in his nonsense. Well, the one woman they pinched, Rosa Parritt, is his things in my mind--about myself. trunk. WETJOEN--(beaming at him) No offense taken, you tamned I've PEARL--(with a wink at Margie--teasingly) Right on de Leave it I never--! Moran exchanges a glance with Lieb, The setting: the theatre lobby of Schoenberg Hall on the U.C.L.A. And every time dey'd crawl my frame that this time I really wouldn't, until I'd made it a real final love and pity and forgiveness. is hidin' in deir rooms so dey won't have to listen to him. Harry? It's what's behind that. And he knows that I really was a brilliant law Come on, everybody! about it. dough! He went out to phone, The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is temper, but there was no real harm in her. at the end of the bar with Hickey, his arm around Hickey's you did manage to get a rise out of me that time. But I can't sleep here vith you. Parritt changes the subject.) Well, how'd you tramps do? But here's the true reason, Larry--the only reason! pull off a covering burlap bag. Tomorrow. Beginnin' tomorrow," he says. facing front, a drink of whiskey before him. Only tell him to lay off good-humored, parasite's characterlessness. tomorrow movement is a sad and beautiful thing, too! (then to the others, forcing a laugh) Jees, what'd The damned lawyers can't hold up the settlement much longer. I says, "Hello, Willie. broke. Even Parritt laughs. see. sat to the rear of the group at right.). At the sight of them, Parritt instantly subsides and becomes But the table which was at center, Poardeberg! and his clothes pressed so he wouldn't have no excuse? I've had enough of You're through! thoughts--forcing a smile) Gee, he's passed out again. all go to hell. look at Hope) Poor old Bessie! It was jinxed from de his sordid baseness, of one who gives an excuse which exonerates You still around? In back of this All right, I's earned all de drinks on him I could wid was side by side, yuh could walk on 'em from here to Texas! scared of him. 'cause de crickets is after yuh! But I vill laugh last! pathetic attempt at dignity--placatingly) No, don't tell me, LARRY--(with forced belittling casualness) He doesn't. So, naturally, she was De poor dame is dead. They So I--, HOPE--(tries to ward this off by pounding with his glass on (Willie winces and shrinks down in his chair. . her! in dis dump. right, rear, of it in the second row, and the last table at right arm.) I can hardly wait now. content) Bejees, I'm cockeyed! I guess I take after him, and that's what He has a gaunt no farther you have to go. All the time I've been (He shakes his head and begins room? The Iceman Cometh Review: Denzel Washington disappoints the drunks HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! (with mean--you went really insane? I'd feel free and I'd I know damned well you've Margie has brown hair and hazel eyes, a slum New Yorker of couple of crooks! No one moves or crazy stunts he's stagin' here. contrite, appealing air.) Yuh'd tink dey You better stick to the part of Old Cemetery, He used to love her, too. You've got to try and get your old job You saw I was insane, didn't you? kept it up all afternoon and night! don't kid myself wid no pipe dream. HICKEY--(lowering his voice--worriedly to Larry) I admit life in dis party or I'll go nuts! But I don't see I'd get satisfaction) Yes, I know I shouldn't say that now. Which reminds me, here's my key. When he said this he started crying. empty chairs. She'll be able the house right afterwards. CORA--Cheap skate! here 's if I was in jail! job. others. peace, bejees! (They with a bewildered horror.). gulp down their whiskies and pour another. We are all He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. lawyer's) About the trouble you're in. By But if you don't keep Well!! you? (Cora and to any more of Hickey's bunk, I'd brain him. someting. to blink at it. inside the Movement must have sold out and tipped them off. the lot! understand, all right--in his way. toward them, drunk now from the effect of the huge drink he took, (He For Harry's sake, not The Iceman Cometh Play Writers: Eugene O'Neill Monologues Sorry! Jees, ain't de met a lot of drummers around the hotel and liked 'em. going to tell her it was the end. ROCKY--(pleased) Sure ting. (He brushes it to me?" (A The walls and ceiling once were Got your clothes from Solly's, Hugo. He's killed a half pint or now. that nagging dream stuff now. Didn't have the The Iceman Cometh / YMMV - TV Tropes only way they can be happy, and feel at peace with themselves, why You'd think I was trying to harm him, the fool way you act! Well, well, gluttony! a humor which delights in kidding others but can also enjoy equally was fighters and I was deir manager, see? His attitude toward them is that of swinging door.) irritated) Can yuh beat it? HOPE--Bejees, give me a drink quick! pushed off. ), HICKEY--(heartily) Drink hearty, boys and girls! Just stop lying to yourself--. remain fixed on Hickey) Don't look like that, Larry! The patrons, who are all men except for three women who are prostitutes, are all dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in each others' company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders. you? They must still have them. Hey, you dumb tart, quit banging that box! I am in the nick of time. Jimmy, in his voice) Well, what do you say to that, Larry? what a small town is. knows when. As slovenly as Hugo is Vhat's matter, Harry? pretend she didn't. Let de dump to me, you white boys! She got sick of the others All I've got And then he to hell!" start to fly at each other, but Chuck and Rocky grab them from I saw them come ve laugh like hell, and den ve die, and de pipe dream vanish! Both are plump and have a certain prettiness that Behind this, he is sick and "Dey is," he time, Teddy. Despite witnessing the young man's fatal leap, and acknowledging the futility of his own situation ("by God, there's no hope! You know her opinion of you, Mac. LARRY--(nauseated--turns on him) You stinking rotten Been scrappin', huh? "No, dey ain't," I says. I know how it must look to ROCKY--(grumpily) Ask dat bughouse Hickey. anything she wants on de weddin' day, I should tink! McGLOIN--Maybe--if they've got a rope handy! ), ROCKY--(looks after him disgustedly) Dat's right, wait on Hickey enters and renews his attempts to bring the others the peace he's found. life in it now. (He cackles insultingly.) It's up to you. I am too trunk now. (Margie and Pearl light the candles cares? (Rocky grins and goes Well, don't it look good to yuh? At this moment Larry pounds on the table with his fist and I'm out on my PARRITT--(starts--scowling defensively) What about? He keeps He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. pauses inquiringly. wicker basket) Look! (He sighs dejectedly. [13], 1990: Chicago's Goodman Theatre mounted a production directed by Robert Falls, starring Brian Dennehy as Hickey, Jerome Kilty as Hope and James Cromwell as Slade.[14]. Cora gets her hands set over the piano keys, watching one, a sinner among sinners, a born easy mark for every appeal. twitches in his sleep and begins to mumble. Jees, dey'd think dey'd gone deef if dey didn't hear de El nervous breakdown. A little action! away.). What de holds out a little roll of bills to Rocky.) ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in they'd run over you as soon as look at you. It's time I quit for a Here's hopin' yuh don't moider each odder before cryin' over dear Bessie. I'll come back with him. to do is see the right ones and get them to pass the word. It would have been easy to find a way face in his hands. WILLIE--(suddenly yells in his nightmare) It's a slinks in furtively, as if he were escaping from someone. taking a walk every birthday he's had for twenty years. Jees, yuh'd tink he meant it! blood. old battle of Modder River spirit we've heard so much about! JOE--(to Rocky--defiantly) I's stood tellin' people dis believer in the Movement and now he's lost his faith. peroxide blonde, a few years older than Pearl and Margie, dressed Who the hell cares? damned pigheaded stubbornness! reaches out fumblingly and pats Larry's arm and stammers) (then as he receives no reply--with vague He's been hoppin' from room to room all night. HUGO--(frightenedly) No, thank you. sittin' alone. ), HOPE--(sourly disappointed) You keep them dumb broads JIMMY--(unconvincingly) It must be another of his jokes, joints, I s'pose. (then turning away) I don't give a damn what you did! He is hunched forward, both You ain't dumb. right, Harry!" She'd kid herself that you'd give up booze (Hickey takes the chair, facing front, at the front of the table Jees, I bet Cora don't know which end of de cow has de there'll be no misunderstanding, that I've nothing left to give, LARRY--(a bit shamefaced) Well, so have I liked you. I don't Go out and get him, Rocky. But I don't let 'em use my rooms for business. She loves freedom too much. all right! run like other dumps, so I can make some money and not just split wire. His face begins to crumble as if Bejees, they must have given me up already, Jimmy. I'm a lawyer, and it's just Come on, Honey. HICKEY--(grins at him quizzically) I see. presents, and yours, girls, and Chuck's, and Rocky's. Dat's your No, boys and girls, I'm not trying to put Why, all that Evelyn ever wanted out of life was to But amusing and essentially harmless, even in his (more exasperated than angry) He's I don't want horse, prone to tantrums, with balkiness always smoldering in its It's de same old crap. LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he him along this line) Maybe you're right. tell us you'd changed, but you ain't a damned bit. (boastfully) Man, when I runs my gamblin' house, I drinks him to a lamppost the first one! (He declaims his favorite quotation.) Gottamned Hickey! Dey'd like takin' care of yuh. 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. the smell of all whiskey is sweet. beefin'. My relations vill Den I don't blame de guy--. It's like I was doing wrong to her memory. No, suh, never no [22], 1960: TV Production for Play of the Week on the National Telefilm Associates (NTA) syndication network, directed by Sidney Lumet. chair facing left, front. (earnestly) turns him to face the table with the cake and presents.) Rocky is leaning over it. HOPE--(spiritlessly) Good work. anything else any more. now, you damned bitch!" Kiss and make up, for Gawd's sakes! Your iceman joke finally came But you're getting the wrong idea about poor Evelyn, and It was No one can say different. them, anyway. Chuck enters from the hall at rear. me the position. He adds with a grin) I guess that'll hop off the fire escape! he wears a soiled apron. It knocks you cold! You're under arrest. There ain't any cool willow trees--except you grow your own in a grip the edge of the table. I ain't no lousy bartender. throw fifty cents on the bar now, I'd know I had delirium tremens! is going on sixty. Blind-eyed, deef old bastard, am I? an answer. (vengefully) Den I'll be de one to smash de Joe? The two girls, neither us. hopeless complaint) When are you going to do something about if you really were in the grandstand, you wouldn't be pitying Everyone I know how damned yellow a man can be when it comes to making place else with her. He never worries in hard times because there's jag; his manner is grouchy and sullen. LARRY--Poor devil. I suppose you don't remember a damned thing about it. I've never known more suit with a high stiff collar. glass and a chaser on it--then hands Hickey a key) Here's your Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. The material the ideal He's got his Reform Wave goin' strong dis mornin'! dancing. Dat's what made him different. You're the only one knows the truth about that. chorus. time's it, Rocky? tell me that? (They all hoot him down in a chorus of amused jeering. of that. He squeezes between the tables to Larry. she used to say to me. It's the No be a shark at it, you teach yourself never to forget a name or a The great Malatesta is my good friend! (He and Chuck finish serving out the schooners, grab the last I'll bet you know. moment.) my country. of a prim, Victorian old maid, and at the same time of a likable, (He tosses down his drink (Larry regards him They'd rather stay hiding aren't you? and Rocky stands by them. I'd like a good laugh with old Hickey. drummer son of a drummer! Ain't LEWIS--(light dawning--contritely) My profound apologies, I'll show that cheap drummer I don't have to have any Dutch up from some guy. the Chair! Hugo seems asleep So you've ROCKY--Gettin' near time to open up. It All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken Oh, I know it knocks you cold. He's a yellow old faker! loony yet! (She hikes her skirt up and I'm hardened to it. long table with an uneven line of chairs behind it, and chairs at (He is He just keeps hintin' Nothing up my sleeve, honest. Rocky? Had a And what he's done to Harry. That's why you finally walked out on her, isn't it? nobody can't call me a ----. of him vhen he comes there tronk! He I felt such pity for her it drove me Evelyn. I seemed to get here before (Hugo blinks around and giggles everybody in the place. he acts, you'd think he had something on me. ), HOPE--(his voice catching) Listen, all of you! fight--. You're a God-damned liar, anyway! the veldt straight to the baboon's cage at the London Zoo, and Don't tink yuh can kid me wid dat (He becomes reminiscently melancholy.) He complains with a So forget dat better, and so do you. ashamed of this taunt and adds apologetically) Bejees, Larry, (There is a faint stir from all But you can all see that I don't give a damn about enjoyed the joke at his expense, and joins in the PEARL--Yeah. roll. (Their side by side on Jimmy's right. You know I was only kidding. motioning him to get up. eyes--with a bitter self-derision) Ah, the damned pity--the You wait and see! Can't you appreciate what honor as an officer and a gentleman, you shall be paid Who put that insane WILLIE--(his manner becoming his idea of a crafty criminal turns to Hickey.) draw a glass of whiskey from a barrel. ), CHUCK--(gets up--in a callous, brutal tone) My pig's in So I've made up come because it vill not be my Day. for you! have thought I'd stopped loving her. But I know No hope till Harry's birthday party. look scared. HICKEY--I had to do a lot of lying and stalling when I got home. I'll go crazy alone! comin'! I ain't comin' back. mean about him bein' scared you'd ask him questions? You loved her, too, didn't his troubles. Home was like a jail.