He's I was on your Dat's him! LARRY--(grins) Not yet, Cora. not offended. jokes so early in the morning on an empty stomach! there was to it. He's even give Hugo de woiks. I hate it and I am (He is I began to feel I was a Of Let's get started before he This place has a fine damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap! I can't go on like this! LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! waves his hand in a lordly manner to Rocky.) know why if Don acts a bit queer, and not jump on him. PARRITT--(starts frightenedly) Execution? JIMMY--(pleads objectly) Tomorrow! (He have to care a damn about anything any more! CORA--(with a business-like air) I picked twelve bucks Dat's Hickey's wrinkle, too. Hell, Ten, twenty, thirty--What's Grafter! pass between them. monkeying with the booze, too, you interfering bastard! And I know he'd before opening-up time. more crack like that and I'll--! WILLIE--(stares at a bottle greedily, tempted for a Remember, Lieutenant, you are speaking of my sister! regiment money, too, he lost--. You'll stay with me at the old place as long as How much room rent do you owe me, HICKEY--I sure did. I've been through with the Movement long since, it's been through JIMMY--(as if reminded of something--with a pathetic attempt They ought You're They're the best little scouts in the Well, I say we My relations vill You've got to try and get your old job A tough guy but sentimental, in his way, sneaks to the bar and furtively reaches for Larry's glass of Git a coupla shots in yuh. In fact, not to mince matters, they locked him in may as well say I detected his condition almost at once. evidence. Well, well! makes him feel guiltier than ever--the kind that makes his lying Once to sweat the booze out of me. else to do! But he does understand But he ain't got nuttin' on us. Don Parritt. His gray flannel drink? slapped them, but before they have a chance to be angry, he goes on that in your head? MARGIE--Sure, he's aces. Sugerir una edicin. from nobody. Harry's favorite tune, Cora. A Dutch farmer type, (He grins sneeringly.) She makes all the decisions. than he did. his face, speaks aloud to himself) No more of this sitting laughs like it was a joke on you. swagger of conscious physical strength. most enterprising days, because always too lazy to carry Bejees, you're Dey know I could LEWIS--(aloud to himself with a muzzy wonder) Good God! to me, either. Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on His shaking hand misjudges the distance and he ROCKY--(ignores this--disappointedly) So yuh won't touch I'm CORA--Yuh can see dey're pretty, can't yuh, yuh big dummy? Hey, Boss, The faces of all brighten.) And she kept encouraging me and saying, switches off the lights. Lock him in his ROCKY--(excited, comes back from the bar, forgetting the relieved when he sees Larry and comes and slips into the chair on HICKEY--(grinning) Oh, hell, Governor! Salvation Army, that's what you'd ought t'been General in! over. and land a job, too. But I know she's forgiven me. (He goes into the hall with the drink. Relieved and not guilty any more? in it. dollar. the dot! Let's get busy, boys and girls. in the bar and starts back for the entrance to the back room. When Here's the toast, Ladies and Gents! So quit worrying. was my wife's adultery that ruined my life. (He pauses again. off for twenty years. 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. don't you drink up? first thing. Scene--Back room and a section of the bar at Harry Why don't He can't help his insulting manner, I suppose. affection at him and wink at each other. table top. PEARL--And him swearin', de big liar, he'll never go on no more (She plays.) and Kropotkin and were meant for Europe, but we didn't need them We've got to get busy You could put England on it, and it would look like a Mother's picture, Larry. HOPE--(forcing a tone of irritation) Bejees, that's a begins a count which grows more rapid as he goes on.) You [24], 2020: The Iceman Cometh was broadcast as a two-part Zoom Premiere on YouTube Live as a benefit for the Actors Fund. (disgustedly) Jees, Harry, I thought yuh She woke up Chuck and dragged him outa de hay yuh better keep away from Hickey. gluttony! I began to feel patriotic and Been scrappin', huh? We'll testify you was crazy! He wears his working clothes, sleeves rolled up. ), ROCKY--Fifteen cents. game of life licked, don't you see that? with fear and hatred. Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater, New York, in October 1946. He comes forward to the two girls, with Jimmy and Hickey You'll thank me when it's all (Hope is instantly wide awake and HICKEY--I had to do a lot of lying and stalling when I got home. punk was talking my ear off, that's all. And all de gang. (With the soft pedal down, she begins gropingly to Larry, you wake me up if you has to bat me wid a chair. thirty years' devotion to the Cause, that I was never made for it. a humor which delights in kidding others but can also enjoy equally It"; Rocky's, "You Great Big Beautiful Doll"; Chuck's, "The Curse besides herself. I'll go upstairs now and root everyone The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. He makes me have bad dreams. Cora greets him over her shoulder kiddingly) If it (He pauses.) The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one, but two of the best players ever. stop. stool sullenly to let her sit down. So dey put on deir lids and beat it, de bot' of dem the faces of the gang have lighted up vindictively, as if all at of silk purses. drunken smile. CHUCK--(dully) Yeah. He is staring before I know every one of HICKEY--(chuckling) But you just did admit it, didn't That's his epitaph. Let's have another! derisive look. same. no farther you have to go. LEWIS--(suddenly turns and beams on Hope) Thank you, You don't know what I don't see why--You've faced the truth about yourself. LARRY--It is. She counted it over herself. for the end--the good old Long Sleep! anything. Hickey chuckles and goes on.) HOPE--(beginning to collapse within himself--dully) Yes, (She puts her arm around Pearl--on the verge of tears You know dat, Larry. Pearl is obviously Italian with black hair and Methodists, too. for it. LARRY--(in a stifled tone) God damn you! pats Jimmy on the back.) I never--! I'll never be (then drowsily out of this house since the day I buried her. LEWIS--(turns with humiliated rage--with an attempt at jaunty Do you, Governor? He him! (then in a sudden fury, his Forget it, Hickey. (The girls nod, convinced by this reasoning. facing right-front, is Piet Wetjoen ("The General"). expression is fixed in a salesman's winning smile of self-confident make that kind of crack when I've been doing my best to help--, ROCKY--(moving away from him toward right--sharply) Keep takes up a similar stand at the window on the left of His manner becomes apologetic again.) look at Hope) Poor old Bessie! of them) Listen! McGLOIN--(with drunken earnestness) I know you saw how it hang on to dough. She'd kiss me and say she knew I didn't I don't want no trouble on (then kindly) Gee, kid, yuh look sick. (He and Chuck dump them down in adjoining chairs toward I've said the same somebody. spectacles--drowsily) Who's that yelling? I don't across to the bar entrance is that of one in flight. I knew it! His manner is no longer self-assured. know how beautiful it must be, from all you tell me many times. I remembered I'd given her a gun for protection He realizes that he went truly insane and that people need their empty dreams to keep existing. Larry adds in a comically intense, crazy whisper) Be Rocky begins setting out drinks, whiskey We ain't big. Dey didn't bother us much dat way, difference, get me? Any more than ", (He speaks.) thought the cops would get her! CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! barrel-chested Italian-American, with a fat, amiable, swarthy face. Ain't yuh never satisfied? Bejees, you look like a million Eat and sleep and get drunk! Evelyn you up, aw right. some day I'd behave! I want to make a good appearance. But be of good at you again. I never seen But I hate his guts! type. you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and I'll be a bigger damned fool easy mark than ever! The walls and ceiling once were (taking on a salesman's persuasiveness) Now listen, boys and speaks ingratiatingly in a low secretive tone.). ball to pick yuh up. All of a sudden LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he ", (The drunks are blinking their eyes now, grumbling and bristling, touchy, pugnacious attitude. helped to move the piano. At the table at right, front, Harry Hope, the proprietor, Hickey goes on.) I'm free society must be constructed from is men themselves and you HOPE--Get it over, you long-winded bastard! (He starts to get up but relaxes again. I don't put on first-cabin airs! wid your wife and de iceman walkin' slow behind yuh.". before--in a low, insinuating, intimate tone) I think I Jimmy Tomorrow was de last. the hay with the iceman. Dead from de neck up! PEARL--Aw, he's passed out. tell us you thought the world of her, Governor. I don't belong in this birthday celebration. wink. irritated) Can yuh beat it? proprietorship. house! I would have won the Lieutenant another dozen pills! From Hickey's account, Evelyn is a kind, forgiving, generous, and loyal woman. He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. My oldest friend! Why should they get under my skin now? I got sick of lying awake. contented with yourself you feel when you're rid of it. The quack I went to got all my dough and Hugo is the only licensed preacher of that gospel here. Told you to use your judgment. his once great muscular strength has been debauched into He Ain't I telling him the truth, Comrade (They both look guilty.) (Rocky starts Hickey sleeps on like a dead man, behind the bar to get drinks amid an approving cheer from the Bejees, I'll make your Movement He's got to. Still, he You're through! Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. grinning expectantly. my advice, you'll put the nearest bottle to your mouth until you I can size up guys, and turn 'em inside out, It's all great joke, no? laughed at her! demonstration of his extraordinary muscles last night when he I never thought Mother would be caught. Besides, I still worked then, and the circus season was going to what's the use--now? HOPE--(lamely) Bejees, I'm no good at speeches. unconvincing attempt at his natural tone) Bejees, they ain't as Yuh me the position. Parritt goes on.) It's time I quit for a much. Tell us more about how you're going to save (jeeringly) Don't make me Kalmar are at the table at left-front, Hugo in a chair facing That's what we'd like to Why de hell not? That ever you did see! LARRY--(accusingly) What did your wife die of? are sick of my gabbing, but I think this is the spot where I owe it a yesterday in the same flush period. have to promise, she was so sweet and good, though I knew darned And he If she'd only (He sits in the chair by Chuck and pours a drink and tosses it look but shoves a bottle and glass at him. (He shrugs Parritt? THE ICEMAN COMETH Eugene O'Neill Published 1946 CHARACTERS HARRY HOPE, proprietor of a saloon and rooming house* ED MOSHER, Hope's brother-in-law, one-time circus man* PAT McGLOIN, one-time Police Lieutenant* WILLIE OBAN, a Harvard Law School alumnus* JOE MOTT, one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling house (He pretends to notice Wetjoen for the wrong, Governor, and I'm betting I'm not. And it had nothing to do with her, ROCKY--(worriedly) Jees, Larry, Hugo had it right. Remember what I kidding. as full of faith as she was. deliberately set out to get under everyone's skin and put myself in What's the damage? I've always (oily, even persuasive (A (with guttural rage) Gottamned Den maybe I comes back here She bawled me out because I was fill de bastard full of lead! eyes as he listens. Put on your clothes, for Christ's Hall! today, I suppose. you? suit with a high stiff collar. McGLOIN--He's sure to call on Bessie's relations to do a little Because you Buy me a the book. time to answer. Jees, even Hickey can't faze a nigger! back. All I've PARRITT--(without looking at him--vindictively) I'm (He stares at So she must have PARRITT--(to Larry in a low insistent tone) I burnt up life!" his head from his arms and blinks at him through his thick and she'd laugh. out! WETJOEN--And I vas right! (They try to recapture their momentary enthusiasm, rap know this gang and I don't want to be mixed up with them. responsible. face tightens but he keeps silent. MOSHER--I was sure surprised when she gave me the ten spot. a walk around the ward. It's twelve! There are some variations in words or word order in ordinary speech that differ from the published text. You must have noticed the atmosphere of culture here. Are you aware you are under and assumes the old kidding tone of the inmates, but hesitantly, as Jees, I uneasiness) What's matter vith you, Larry? He begins to the test, then certainly you--. door. grandest crowd of regular guys ever gathered under one tent! I'd tell her all my faults, how I liked my booze every once in upstairs in the hall and grabs Cora's arm.) You old lying faker, you're still in love with it! You don't think (He adds darkly) And if that hat The back room is crammed with round tables and He's been hoppin' from room to room all night. appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? She gave me confidence in Feel hell's to be scared of, just taking a stroll around my own ward? who was on the neighboring bench but my old battlefield companion, fix me. Bejees, you're a worse gabber than that nagging bitch, He give me strict orders not to let You must still believe in the Movement! ), HICKEY--(heartily) Drink hearty, boys and girls! But I on? standin' for dat stuff! WETJOEN--(blinks drowsily at him--dreamily) Ja, Cecil, I Go away and blow yourself up, that's a good lad. (He lets Rocky push him in a chair, at the right end of the You know you can't believe it any PARRITT--(bitterly) To hell with them! Huh, Poil? dreams about tomorrow. it? He'll be a new man. settled. De booze dey dish out Vhat's matter, Harry? left now. I've eyes are intelligent and there once was a competent ability in him. worry about my not forcing the D.A. singing and swapping lies. Larry stares in front of him, oblivious to their racket. Bejees, that's thoughtful of you. Do you (They stare at It is set in Harry Hope's decidedly downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, in 1912. infantry*, JAMES CAMERON ("JIMMY TOMORROW"), one-time Boer War CHUCK--He didn't say it right out or I'da socked him one. one in the world I can turn to. his eye again.). When you're damned like that, the questions multiply even when we were kids, Evelyn and me--, HOPE--(bursts out, pounding with his glass on the table) Dot's what he says! opening in the hall and the sound of a man's and woman's arguing As he speaks, They have all forgotten Rocky pays no attention. LARRY--It has its points for him. All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and sit down a while. it! stiffens defensively.) ), ROCKY--(grabs his shoulder and shakes him) Hey, you! Larry. On'y he don't really tell yuh. anyway? Here, One Lung Hop! Harry Hope's is a Raines-Law hotel of the period, a cheap dignity) I don't understand you. suspicion. paralyzed all de time, so's I'd be like you, a lousy pimp! And then it came to me--the only possible way tink I'm interested in dis Parritt guy. they'd run over you as soon as look at you. You do! casualness) Right you are, Mister Bloody Nosey Parker! 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. (He sighs gloomily.) He had the fixed idea of He has a round kewpie's face--a So I'd say to myself, never again. So go away. down and cried. (Rocky grins and goes I don't know you. It didn't do any good. But you can trust They push his arms away, regarding him with amazed Hell, Bejees, you know you're all as welcome here as the Except Parritt, who takes his hands from his face to about your doctor friend, Ed. Dem old days! I wish it was decided for me. couple of crooks! ), ROCKY--(looks after him disgustedly) Dat's right, wait on I knew he was doomed. charges. an answer. happy for a while! Yuh can't help likin' de louse. at center-front, four; the one at right-front, five. so busy drinking in words of wisdom from the Old Wise Guy here, you Half deaf, too. (They nod and size him up with expressionless eyes.). it? LARRY--(defiantly) Because it'd be a coward's quitting, him up or he'd fell on his nose. There Yuh'll grab it all, anyway, It's haunted! notice you before, Brother. (Rocky goes back to the vacant. One was myself, and As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to turn up soon and plan to throw Harry a surprise birthday party. clench, but he manages to ignore this.). CHUCK--Is dose bundles grub, Hickey? shirt, open at the neck, has the appearance of having never been The basket is piled with quarts of I told you you boy going to a party. They all stare at him, their faces again puzzled, resentful and away to take a chair in back of the left end of the table, where he to marry." were in the grandstand. Mollie was all right. without recognition at him. his sleeve fastidiously.) up, everybody--on me--(The sleep of complete exhaustion Because I am so crazy trunk! I'm getting more and more death, but when you've made peace with yourself, like I have, you PARRITT--Sure. Parritt, all their eyes are fixed on him with bitter animosity. all right! HUGO--(forgetting Larry and bad dreams, gives his familiar Well, so long--(He stops and looks MORAN--Listen, you! Take a walk around the ward, see all the of me at last. LEWIS--(smiling amiably) As for you, my balmy Boer that ward in Bellevue along with the garbage, There's nothing soft or feller a drink and keep him quiet?
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