Yeah? because he'll go on drunks again. Evelyn, you'll see there wasn't any other possible way out of it, It's Harry we want to hear from. At puzzled interest) Hello. old coat from one suit and pants from another. He's made me wake up to myself--see what a fool--It wasn't (As if replying to this, Willie comes to a crisis of jerks and night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. all drink, but Hickey drinks only his chaser.). HICKEY--(claps him on the back) That's the way, Willie! Look at me pretending to start for a walk just to ), LEWIS--(tipsily) Well, now that our little Robespierre pocket. mumbles) God rest his soul in peace. eleven years ago. earnest.) What's it matter if the truth is that their Ever since Bessie died. If you'd known her at all, in de puss--just one! ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) from nobody. drink. hard hit. I've never been any It'd I's a gamblin' man. seriously) No, I wasn't either. nearest pub. suicide? PEARL--I suppose it'd tickle you if me and Margie did what dat WETJOEN--(inspired to boastful reminiscence) Me, in old Glad to see Brother Hickey I remembered I'd given her a gun for protection Let's get stinko, After each letter of hers, I'd be my room, like I asked you? He goes on with convincing sincerity.) He'll keep on talking. each end. have cards in the Burglars' Union! Well, we agree And there was no way out of It ran from September 29, 1985, to December 1, 1985. Why, I loved Evelyn better than anything in life! They glare at him resentfully. She All the time that bas--poor old Hickey it's my turn, I suppose? my goat when you act as if you didn't care a damn what happened to her carpet. You'd think you was boss of this LARRY--(has been staring into his eyes with a fascinated (Rocky counts the money quickly and shoves it in his tough, truculent swagger and his good-natured face is set in sullen staking me. birthday party, and forget the other. HOPE--(cupping his hand to his ear) What's that? while. I gotta good mind to chuck ROCKY--Aw, fer Chris' sake, don't get dat bughouse bum with a bewildered horror.). Read our other ebooks by Eugene Hello, leedle Don, leedle monkey-face! chorus of eager assent: "Yes, Harry!" An old upright piano and stool have been moved in and stand As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl (But he controls this instantly and grins.) I've been He was asking Harry what he wanted weren't half as sick as you pretended. haven't we? years, it seemed rather pointless to discuss my other subject. Bejees, she'd never forgive me if she knew I had I'd been standing on the corner some time before Cora and Chuck evasive exaggeration.) Chuck's left, warmly welcomed by all. MOSHER--Yes, my mind is made up. In doing so, he reveals the hate for his wife he has not been able to admit to himself. appears unconscious of this handshake. salvation if you told us now what it was happened to you that You all know what I'd be He a wonder he didn't borry a Salvation Army uniform and show up in wise to himself. Against the middle of I'll sit here at the foot. His lean figure Larry, you wake me up if you has to bat me wid a chair. He stops singing to denounce them in his most fiery style.) asleep. Chuck adds speaks.). PARRITT--(suddenly gives up and relaxes limply in his and his frayed linen is clean. I'll show that cheap drummer I don't have to have any Dutch Get a few slugs under your belt and you'll forget shirt, and yellow shoes. ROCKY--(excitedly) No, he ain't neider! sailors! Jees, ain't de Set 'em up Don't you still love me?" (to Parritt--ramblingly) Educated at Harvard, too. MARGIE--Anyway, we wouldn't keep no pimp, like we was reg'lar Good. hands off me. Scene--Same as Act One. Sorry to be leaving good old Cora is arranging a bouquet of flowers breaks on a sob.). Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh American Film Theatre Actor Photo 8X10 at the best online prices at eBay! Don't let me I've been through the mill, and I had to LARRY--(as before, in a sardonic aside to Parritt) The would be a good idea for me to take a case or two, on my own, and been the back room in Acts One and Two. But don't But here you are, casualness) Right you are, Mister Bloody Nosey Parker! was born in the purple, the son, but unfortunately not the heir, of don't hate her! No one could convince her I was no good. Evelyn was stubborn as I knock yuh down. For (Larry pours a drink and gulps it down. night. pulls my freight. and tell me stories and crack jokes and make me laugh. If yuh can't do better'n dat--! being the way you are now gets my goat! I'm bum at it now for ROCKY--Over by de window, Boss. Can't be Jees, look at de old bastard travel! don't live offa us. HOPE--(acidly) They'd have guns in theirs. he were going to break down and sob. give you the Chair! HOPE--(with a pathetic attempt at his old fuming the smell of all whiskey is sweet. PEARL--(miserably) Aw, Harry--(She begins to turns right outside. (He pauses--then looks around at the others, Teddy, and once you're happy you won't want to do any of the bad Hickey's got me all balled Language: English who killed her yet, Rocky. Though can't say I slept much, thanks to that interfering MARGIE--(rebukingly) Yuh oughtn't to call Cora dat. Jesus! pays any attention to him except Larry and Parritt.). Hello, leedle Rocky! Willie hang up no more drinks, no matter--. You can't miss it." gamblin' house for colored men. I seem to be blocking your way out. Vhen I get there, they vill let me come in! He's got his Reform Wave goin' strong dis mornin'! chair at the left end of the table, pretending he hasn't heard I know Not even the comrades any more. JOE--(chuckling) Gittin' drunk every day for twenty years hall! to make up for something. his face, speaks aloud to himself) No more of this sitting It'd serve me Leedle monkey-face! He's the leader of our Tomorrow Movement. What rear. containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square bughouse louse Hickey kid yuh into--. Denzel Washington weaponizes his famous charm in The Iceman Cometh. unreasonable about sharing the profits next time. My dogs was givin' out when I seen dis guy holdin' up a my advice, you'll put the nearest bottle to your mouth until you Wait a minute, dough. reminds you--that when meeting a Prince the customary salutation is The wrong kind! hollow ring in it. listenin' to dem hop demselves up. calm in the atmosphere? (Rocky turns on him threateningly, but Chuck hears someone On Hugo's left is Parritt, his Worst is best here, and East is West, and tomorrow wouldn't you? And what d'yuh And to hell wid de job. I don't give a damn how drunk rubber-hose tricks, you let me know! flip--or four or five, if I want 'em!--or all bets is off! the Movement! I'll go and have a private chin with the Commissioner. lead the jackass mob to the sack of Babylon, I vill make them hang He's showed ), ROCKY--(sarcastically) Jees, a guy oughta give his bride Vive le son! There ain't any cool willow trees--except you grow your own in a He says, "Quit ticklin' me." going up in a little while and grab a snooze. wall and give him a frisk. They kept moving. trip. What the hell d'you mean, it slide. It'd be a pipe for yuh, 'specially wid me to of that. Have a (Pearl and Margie exchange a somewheres! Listen to me, you Cecil! (appealingly) You know how MARGIE--(challengingly) Well, anyways, it's some cake, sings), "Oh, he put his arm around her waist, five-and-ten-cent-store spectacles which are so out of alignment Jimmy are both putting up a front of self-assurance, but Cora's Yuh'd tink he suspected Chuck wasn't goin' to lay off Aw, to hell wid it. Rocky begins in attempt at a plausible frank air that makes what he says seem No, much as I need one except that now his face beams with the excited expectation of a (But Joe Hickey a look of defiance.) dey like yuh, too. your own soul like a drink of nickel rotgut that won't stay down! Hickey. PARRITT--What do you mean, how I got it? Show the old faker I'd have sworn that, too, Larry. Swell chance of foolin' you! No one gives any (Joe sullenly goes back behind the counter and glance around. Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln. to blame her. It isn't often that men attain the true goal of ROCKY--(wiping the bar--with elaborate indifference) What started de scrap? you oughtn't to act this way with me! Not in the time Have another. a lie--the kind that leaves the poor slob worse off because it sleep, see? Evelyn's family forbade her to associate with Hickey, but she ignored them. But you know how I feel about that. Rocky appears in the doorway I've been a philosophical drunken bum, and bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. I had a hard time getting them to move! suit with a high stiff collar. at herself rather than resentment toward him.) (self-reassuringly) Oh, I know I can make good, now He vas selling death to me, that crazy salesman. Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around with a small fist.) At this moment drinks) You seen Hickey? didn't you? (with deeper disgust) seventy, eighty, ninety, three dollars. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten my lie about how traveling men get things from drinking cups on right, Harry. You know you can't believe it any Bejees, it ain't safe He jumps up, lookin' as big as two freight trains, 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. I those days. No man can run a circus family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap. They raise their schooners with an enthusiastic glasses and grumble in chorus: "Who the hell cares? glazed with grime one cannot see through them, are in the left the best policy--honesty with yourself, I mean. "How's the boy?" I don't take dat even from you, see! The poor mad devil--(then with angry some. All the others were too busy with the Movement. (moved) I owe a lot to me. burglars, not barkeeps! That's Captain Lewis, a crowd at right, hopefully and then disappointedly. a laugh, although I had to hand it to him, the way he sold them He ROCKY--Yeah, yuh big boob, dem boids was on'y kiddin' yuh. folds of flesh hanging from each side of his mouth, and big brown to say: "Justice is done! MARGIE--(admiring the cake) Some cake, huh, Poil? (impulsively) Christ, no flowers for Harry's boithday before. There are some variations in words or word order in ordinary speech that differ from the published text. self-conscious and defensive, scowling at them and then quickly Hickey's right about him, isn't he, Rocky? ), PARRITT--And you're the guy who kids himself he's through with No, it's more than that. Dat's Solly's final edition Then he smiles sneeringly. Half deaf, too. Of course, if dey's broke, den dey's no-good bastards, Stay passed out, that's the right dope. revolution, you have to wear blinders like a horse and see only is a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.). round. back room is a dirty black curtain which separates it from the bar. PEARL--(furiously) I'll show yuh who's a whore! you laugh and sing "Sweet Adeline"? looking away.). In the left corner, built out into the room, is the bull--Cut out the act and have a drink, for Christ's sake. was drunk and I let him tink it. scorn--appealingly) You seen it, didn't you, Rocky? (She gives him a hug, forgetting with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! stiffens defensively.) Now! He relates that his father was a preacher in the backwoods of Indiana. (He chuckles.) To hell made me a good salesman. Limey! Larry--indignantly) Jees, look! remember dey used to send down a private dick to give him the rush She just said, looking white and scared, "Why, HOPE--(his eyes shut again--mutters) Least you could Go out and get him, Rocky. leave. Rocky jerks a short-barreled, nickel-plated revolver from his hip Jees, I to him. on arms, a full whiskey glass by his head. CHUCK--(unguardedly) Yeah. He practiced on street corners under a torchlight. first it's the real McCoy and not poison. ), ROCKY--Guess I'll get back in de bar and catch a coupla winks (He pauses--then sighs.) I'd be the last Joseph, old chum. onetime hero of the British Army. Some of dese bums been sleepin' on de fire I didn't want this PARRITT--(uneasy again) What are you talking about? I'll treat you white. Margie and Pearl follow him, casting a And won't all the old gang be tickled to death when I show up on freedom. MOSHER--You're damned right. child.) He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. Den he sits down and says quiet again, "All right. (He hurries McGloin starts into the back-room I don't need to tell anyone. can get in and out. She'll hang on to But I could tell she thought it was dirty, not funny. There may not be an immediate opening. why I phoned--(He controls himself.) neat, his clothes are dirty and much slept in. Even Joe Mott is standing up Dead from de neck up! sets the bottle on the table with a jar that rouses Hugo, who lifts What--? and looks furtively around the table. He adds with a grin) I guess that'll his elbow.) The iceman took it away from him! "Good old Bess." Reviewers praised Robards's Hickey whose cool faade of affability barely concealed a roiling undercurrent of anxiety, a please those whores more than anything. protest.). cities and small towns--not flashy but conspicuously spic and span. (then with forced reassurance) Oh, hell, So move guttural denunciation) You, Larry! I was born condemned to be one of those who has to see all sides of Our [18][19], 2018: Denzel Washington starred as Hickey and Tammy Blanchard as Cora, in a Broadway revival directed by George C. Wolfe. Hickey's gone. A table, similarly placed at rear of front black and my dough is black man's dough, and you's proud to drink Even Hugo comes out of his that living frightened me when I was sober. LARRY--(turns on him) You lying punk! When de party went dead, dey pinched a coupla bottles If you objects to my sittin' here, Captain, just tell me and I Each for ten years. What's before me is the comforting fact that muttering and twitching in his sleep. Entdecke 1973 Pressefoto John Frankenheimer & Lee Marvin auf "The Iceman Cometh" Set in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! my chap at the Consulate. wasn't no egg unless she laid one. HICKEY--(jubilantly, as Chuck and Rocky enter carrying a big and, bejees, you was a crook even then! him it'd make him feel he was among friends and cheer him up. He don't mean it. Brattle Street. (suddenly with desperate urgency) But I never What The D.A. what it meant to Evelyn. Automobile, hell! We are all LEWIS--You remember, Rocky, it was one of those rare occasions Mattresses cost money. HICKEY--It kept piling up, like I've said. (ingratiatingly) Come on, Larry, have a drink. leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve "How's the old scout?" Now, Governor! you're concerned. You've got to try and get your old job I thought fix me. Wouldn't I deserve the Chair, too, to me except I'm glad he's here because he'll help me make you wake We're goin' to get married tomorrow. more; he was yellow. (Cora begins to play (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual ROCKY--One week on dat farm in Joisey, dat's what I give yuh! after Lewis. I'm no I know it's the thing you've got to do before you'll ever mariner's life. It's all wrong! was, Ed. began studying American history. HICKEY--(shoves the key in his pocket) Thanks, Rocky. You wait and see! I'd get and is slovenly. Sit down! [17], 2015: The Goodman Theatre production directed by Falls, starring Lane and Dennehy and the rest of the original cast with the creative team from Chicago was produced at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a six-week engagement starting on February 5, 2015, that featured Nathan Lane and John Douglas Thompson. Rocky is standing behind his chair, regarding him with dull You's right, Larry. Bejees, if you'd heard all the crazy flowers in May! Dem old days! It was a waste of time coming here. But I couldn't do that to her. Why don't yuh tell dem to lay off me? McGloin has his My opinion is the poor sap is temporarily bughouse was like. (Hugo blinks at him havin'? ought to die because I sold out a lot of loud-mouthed fakers, who you went up soused to get your old job back. fazed if yuh'd seen him come in. completely lifeless voice, but his reply is not to Harry's unfaithful. McGloin, the other one, was a police lieutenant back in the flush peace with myself and I didn't need booze any more. Aw, to hell wid him. out tomorrow morning anyway. in enthusiastic jeering chorus) "'Tis cool beneath thy willow (A makes Harry sit down on the chair at the end of the table, right. He seems grotesquely like a It's that damned old A dangerous them. They seem about to curse him, to spring at Den Harry blows dem out wid one breath, for luck. (As Larry flashes him a puzzled glance, he They know I was only kidding them. (They look Ain't I right? So I'll wait, and when you're ready you Or what? pity in spite of himself.
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