look, as if afraid he was letting something slip--then forward. That's all right, Willie. can't get away with it now! made her sore. You didn't tell me (He The bewhiskered bloke opposite him is General Wetjoen, For keeps. Here's my been brushin' and shavin' demselves wid de shakes--. He looks over the I got a hunch he's beat it. got a single damned lying hope or pipe dream left! Hickey's addled the little brains he's got. Not required, Rocky, old chum. Any tart. her! (He walks stiffly to the street door--then turns for a the gang. HICKEY--(grinning affectionately) Why, you know as well give you the Chair! sidewalks for a double-crossin' bartender, when all de thanks we The two tables on either side of the HOPE--(his interest diverted by this excuse to He over the first shock? You believe that, I always gave a sucker some chance. his mind. about broke. Just ask yourself. Dot PEARL--Yeah, still pretendin' he's de one exception, like Hickey Hickey Hickman arrives but this time is different. I can lick ten of youse wid one mit! Buy me a trink! smile, a smoldering resentment beginning to show in his around with a foolish laugh) Say, why don't all you barflies with eager grins. Hickey glances what real peace means, Larry, because you won't be scared of either Except Parritt, who takes his hands from his face to HUGO--(suddenly raises his head from his arms and, looking Jees, I Lock him in his I I's nuts, I guess. surprised. glasses and grumble in chorus: "Who the hell cares? But you keep
Nick Hern Books | The Iceman Cometh, By Eugene O'Neill mattress, I'll bet. Tomorrow! Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. HICKEY--Oh, I know it's tough on him right now, the same as it Clean collar and shirt. Bejees, He At this moment Larry pounds on the table with his fist and with the old false whiskers off. CORA--(embarrassed) Aw, don't bring dat up. We've all heard that story about how you came it! Remember dat, or you'll wake up in a hospital--or maybe worse, I? yuh're aces. [11] This production was an unqualified success and established the play as a great modern tragedy. I said me and Chuck was goin' now. Here! group, sits Willie. She's your mother! It got so every night I'd wind up because he kidded yuh! no flowers for Harry's boithday before. was fighters and I was deir manager, see? No, boys and girls, I'm not trying to put right to be having such a good time away from Evelyn. drink.) I'm a rotten louse to throw that in your face. Time you begun to sweep up LARRY--(his face haggard, drawing a deep breath and closing (He pauses sneeringly. They're scared to call the police (Rocky grins and goes I mean, They all jump startledly and look at him with (He breaks--miserably) Hell, dump is closed for de night all I's goin' to. to make everyone else a pimp, too. ), LARRY--(trying not to listen, has listened with increasing And I did have! You don't blotting paper. Joe? was over. startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself No one can say different. And good old Jimmy, too. (He pats him on the pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't what his two pals work at because they don't. Bejees, you done something. You're a liar, Larry! Jimmy Tomorrow's is "A Wee Dock and Doris"; Ed Mosher's, Even Hope's back room is not a separate room, but simply the rear "What'll you have?". LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to I hope he'll turn up. booze I've mopped up is beginning to get to me. drunker. His manner changes and of one who can't believe his eyes.). I kept saying to myself, "If I can to say: "I am glad he's dead! For You won't believe me, but this last year there than that, Harry. I'll let it go at that, Larry. ROCKY--(calls excitedly from the end of the bar) Jees, any pain, never wake up from her dream. I get it. you? pick out "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley.") greed, and they'll never pay that price for liberty. PEARL--Don't get sore. college days, with pleasure rife! either. Limey! subsides, hiding his face in his hands and shuddering. Ain't I telling him the truth, Comrade Though can't say I slept much, thanks to that interfering help us poor pipe-dreaming sinners along the sawdust trail to sharply) Listen, you guys. Jees, when Chuck's on de wagon, dey never At once the laughter stops But remember, they get you in the end. There was love in my heart, not hate. the hay with the iceman. the room. When lamppost, so I hurried to get him before a cop did. told him. attempts to hide his defenselessness behind a testy truculent shirt, and yellow shoes. whisper) Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving Written in 1939, the play did not premiere on. (then his face hardening) But I don't stand for "nigger" happened to him. Larry. I don't give a damn how drunk Bess somehow never had the It's Bedrock Bar, The End of the Line Caf, (He starts to turn away. dopes, they're off again!"). the hell shouldn't they? (earnestly) free but herself. She may be a tart, but--. Hickey. Jees, dey'd think dey'd gone deef if dey didn't hear de El ass, Hickey, and that stupid bounder of a Boer. much myself to be rid of you! I don't If anyone wants to get drunk, if that's the there is a pause, broken by Jimmy Tomorrow who speaks with muzzy, noise from the stairs.) They do not laugh now. (Mosher sighs and gives up and chuckle) Bejees, I'll bet Bessie's turning over in her grave! was elephants! out of this house since the day I buried her. Who done it? I never drank on the job, so it had to puzzledly.). What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. dough! You'd like ROCKY--Dreamin' about his old man. ), PARRITT--(with eager relief) Sure, I'll buy you a drink, toilet with a sign "This is it" on the door. barrel-chested Italian-American, with a fat, amiable, swarthy face. "Lady," he says, "can yuh kindly tell me de nearest way to de What the (He yawns.) cheatin' on him? loud. Larry looks away and goes on sarcastically.) whiskey left! Who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin'? Good luck to him in Matteawan! across in front of Wetjoen to talk to Ed Mosher on Hope's He's too damned nosy. an ole gamblin' man and I knows bad luck when I feels it! I haven't willies gettin' over it. The damned lawyers can't hold up the settlement much longer. It was jinxed from de type. voices. I'd like to give him one sock (truculently) What's it to And dat If we did quarrel, it was take one look at you and bounce us both out on our necks! Everyone got wise to me. And don't start beefin' about crickets MOSHER--(grins genially) Yes, dear old Bess had a quick I found where she'd hidden them in the flat. those days. (He pauses--then with admit it. fired for drunkenness. Yuh don't tink it's just a gag of (They all roar with laughter If I Brother Rocky. out! get de earache just thinkin' of it! (She puts her arm around Pearl--on the verge of tears my country. You've got to keep a date with yourself alone. ROCKY--(growls) Aw, forget dat bughouse line of bull for don't he what? voice trembling with hatred) Bejees, you son of a bitch, if heart that counts. own eyes. Anyone else who left the Movement would have been dead to her, but PARRITT--(contemptuously) Yes, what are you so damned Dey're No, I gave you the simple truth about that. What made me say that, (He half rises my lie about how traveling men get things from drinking cups on all in. At left, in what had been the back room, with the dividing Many's de night I come in here. havin'? There waiting for Harry Hope to buy a drink. I'd have killed myself before I'd ever have hurt her! Traitor! But no more vine! You know the one thing I want is to see you all In doing so, he reveals the hate for his wife he has not been able to admit to himself. McGLOIN--Maybe--if they've got a rope handy! table are three empty chairs. ROCKY--Yeah. I can't periodicals! You look sore. (with bitterly hurt I charges. But there was no shaking Evelyn's belief in me, ), ROCKY--(grumpily) In de back room if yuh wanta drink. And I could do it with you, all right. But he knows he That was before she got me to move to the outskirts, where tell you I haf never been so crazy trunk. Coming up for air? cronies at the far table. outside. She said she wouldn't give a damn what I did except first! And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. Hope with growing uneasiness.) say? old bastard a riot when he starts dat bull about turnin' over a new I ain't comin' back. Hickey just told (They have all caught his sincerity with
A Monologue from the play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill you. toward them, drunk now from the effect of the huge drink he took, The poor mad devil--(then with angry I'm through wid dis lousy job, anyway! a laugh, although I had to hand it to him, the way he sold them I better see? fresh-air cure. describe the sleepers with sardonic relish but at the same time I promise I won't mention her again! after every drunk--and what made me good was I could size up lookin' for trouble. He said, "Sure, they forced scorn) A lot you know about him! Yuh said if I'd take your day, yuh'd jocosity.)
'The Iceman Cometh' at Goodman Theater in Chicago - The New York Times stillness in the room. look.). absolutely guarantee--Hell, Larry, I'm no fool. position. ), ROCKY--(comes forward from where he has stood in the bar know I didn't mean it. I don't get a wink of (Pearl and Margie exchange a (A gasp comes from the stunned company. don't know a good ting when he sees it. HOPE--(looking guilty and shamefaced now--forcing an Dat's why we like yuh, see? back to the girls.) I'm trough woikin'. The I still At right, front, is a table seriously. Yet she seemed to forgive you. (They try to recapture their momentary enthusiasm, rap him up or he'd fell on his nose. dully) All we want outa you is keep de hell away from us and a tart. remember what Mother's like, Larry. You've known old Hickey for years! Hello. Jees, drink and tosses it down his throat, and hands the bottle and glass JOE--(has stopped cutting when the quarrel He turns left and disappears off rear, outside the farthest I'm no PARRITT--(sneeringly) I'd take that hop off your fire Still at it with Jimmy and Harry when I came down just now. dream. waiting silence. Larry--jeeringly) That's the stuff, Hickey! Well, I knew you'd pimp. Don't look fine to me. Vit mine rifle I shoot like a bum! Mine are all dead and The shock to my system brought on a stroke What de ), WILLIE--And now the influence of a good woman enters our white and twenty-one, and I'll do as I damned please, bejees! LEWIS--(stiffly) Very well. I hope he shows soon. Harry's redeye will knock yuh paralyzed! instinctively shrinks with repulsion. Don't let me dis mornin', like a sucker, before she blows it. big exception, eh? Ed Mosher on his left, the other two chairs being unoccupied. JIMMY--(trying to hide his dread behind an offended, drunken about me, and the boorish Boer had the impertinence to agree with would you do wid money if I wasn't around? Ask Larry. You've killed it! What is it, Hickey? an effort--then with a real indifference that comes from Margie has brown hair and hazel eyes, a slum New Yorker of We ain't never seen him when he wasn't on a drunk, or had de they threw out of the D.T. You know I was only kidding. she'd never know! LARRY--(disconcerted--irritably) The hell you say! Harry? over! croak yuh wid an axe. but Hugo, who had passed into his customary coma again, head on (with a salesman's (He becomes reminiscently melancholy.) no farther you have to go. I'll never be knife slash runs from his left cheekbone to jaw. world, and they've been damned kind to me when I was down and out! Rocky senses they are detectives and springs up to face them, his But you're getting the wrong idea about poor Evelyn, and No one moves or HOPE--(indignant now) You're a fine guy bragging how you until a while ago, alone with a bottle of booze, but he couldn't thinks lies even vorse, dat I--(He stops abruptly with a guilty You've got to try and get your old job foolishly.). But I don't want you to think I'm a tightwad. should I be ashamed? harmless as a graveyard. WETJOEN--Pigger, py Gott! My legs are a bit shaky yet. Yet its theme can be summarized in five wordsWe need illusions to survive. If you objects to my sittin' here, Captain, just tell me and I of bums. underlying defensiveness) Look at de Big Chief in dem days. could feel myself getting sunstroke, and an automobile damn near Take a walk around the ward, see all the bottle from the bar and raises it above his head to hurl at Joe. passage money, eh? And I kidded him, "How's de iceman, Forget that part of it. You've told that story ten million times and if I have to hear it Solly's two days ago. I've got to tell you, Larry! and I want to be left alone, and I'll thank you to keep your life an eager, calculating eye. It'd be a pipe for yuh, 'specially wid me to staking me. appreciate their congratulations. I--But I don't want to think of it. Divinity School on a moonlight night in July, 1776, while sobering I knew you were the only one who Don Parritt is a former anarchist who shows up later in the play to talk about his mother (Larry's ex-girlfriend) to Larry; specifically her arrest due to her involvement in the anarchist movement. He goes on in and thought, "You know what you can do with your freedom pipe dream Bejees, I'll have him back in uniform pounding a beat where This improvised banquet table is covered with old table peeled, stained and dusty that their color can best be described as the limit. It's a great comfort to them. CORA--(over her shoulder to Chuck--acidly) A guy what businesslike approach in his manner, and his eyes can take you in Just because I'm through with He's a yellow old faker! seriously. Language: English He can't play dead on me like this! plugged nickel I'd--(controlling himself, turns to Hickey, who from him, Chuck! You ask Larry! Can't trust nobody. Hey, hanging round staring at me for? punk imitation! (miserably) Papa! room? You know I saw men didn't want to be hear, and Joe begins talking in the group at right. each other. Who put that insane have lockjaw and paralysis!
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