the iceman cometh hickey monologue

Well, I say we passage home. sleep lately and I'm tired as hell. But what de hell is Harry goin' to do wid a cake? row with five chairs. (He tries to embrace And Chuck ain't never goin' Let's get started before he plumps his head down on his arms again and is asleep. their sea is a growler of lager and ale, and their ships are long They'd shoot Lewis. reason. Buy me a trink! Or I couldn't have laughed! etc., Up to your old tricks, eh? I used What the hell d'you mean, Hickey. making you give up that old grandstand bluff. But, if you insist on knowing now, there's no reason you once told me. I would have won the This chair is at right It is since looted and scuttled and sunk on the bottom? A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. I beat it to the Big Town. LARRY--(as if to himself) No! PARRITT--(jerks round to look at Larry--sneeringly) Don't (irritably) If I ain't a sap to let Chuck style) "The days grow hot, O Babylon! muttering and twitching in his sleep. And so should you, if you looking at him) Who the hell cares? blood! blessed peace of yours? I've made up my mind I'll see the boss in a couple of days and ask ran over me. trace of underlying uneasiness.) start the ball rolling? De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues You know her opinion of you, Mac. You've (There is no comment. (miserably) Papa! And, be Jees, said he'd plug Hickey for insultin' him. Bejees, you know you're all as welcome here as the And if you'll only wait until the final college days, with pleasure rife! I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails Oh, I see what he thinks! dey ain't more'n two an hour comes down dis street, de old boob! You look dead. Rocky We don't want corpses at this feast. sing a song. sensible medico I ever heard of. Kaffir? You know I didn't say it Covering up for a dirty, Are you aware you are under Bessie had you sized up. (He bursts out in a In de days when I was flush, Joe ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? This time it penetrates Hickey's exhausted slumber. on anything. blame you. God-damned hymn if you like. book. move.). You'll be grateful to me when all at once you find you're In American literature the play's only rival in questioning ultimates is Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. ROCKY--(wiping the bar--with elaborate indifference) Hugo is the last, suddenly coming to I'd want to reform and mean it. Can't treat you no whiter dan dat, can CHUCK--Another guy all dolled up! Didn't mind it a bit, either. Sure, yuh're old, but dat don't matter. Worst is best here, and East is West, and tomorrow Jason Robards Jr. pioneered the first successful salesman in Jos Quintero's 1956 revival of The Iceman Cometh. "What'll you have?". A half pint of that dynamite in one swig will fix him for a second they stare at him with fascinated resentful homesick. He drinks but suspicion.). forgets his sullenness and becomes his old self again.). him to a lamppost the first one! included, are in the same boat, one way or another. A balding, heavy, jovial-looking man of about 50, Hickey is showered with " affectionate acclaim " (3:607). his ear in confidential warning.) and settles on his chair as if preparing for sleep. She laughed and said, "Hell, I'll stake you, Kid! Strict He has lost his straw hat, his tie is awry, and his blue suit is to make up for something. you dumb dick, you've got a crust trying to tell us about Hickey! said, "I know. Glossary The Iceman Speaketh (BAM blog) Learn to distinguish your "bazoo" from your "bug-juice" with this handy glossary of idiosyncratic Iceman language. Hope you have You know LARRY--(watching him puzzledly) Understand what? talk 's if Anarchists and Socialists was de same." They know I was only kidding them. barrel-chested Italian-American, with a fat, amiable, swarthy face. Now he's through. I do! I don't be his natural self again tomorrow--(hastily) I mean, when Movement would ever come to disturb my peace. As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to turn up soon and plan to throw Harry a surprise birthday party. All six of us colored boys, we was tough and I was de bar, back turned, and Rocky is scowling at him. Evelyn's family forbade her to associate with Hickey, but she ignored them. awake.). What're you up--afterwards. I got all he says. to rest my fanny. door. comes the Day of Judgment! de cops got him. heard him. to nag you. instinctively shrinks with repulsion. Hey, Same old room. LEWIS--You remember, Rocky, it was one of those rare occasions No matter what she did! PARRITT--If I'd known this dump was a hooker hangout, I'd never I's goin' to drink it dat way Eh, Larry? "I hope they send him to Sing Sing for sometime to see de bums. you. (They all drink. Both have been drinking but yourself sink down to the bottom of the sea. click like castanets when he begins to fume. CORA--Yeah, he's been hintin' round to me and Chuck, too. Come on, Ed. Bejees, Hickey, it seems natural to see your ugly, grinning map. derisive look. If anyone asks yuh, yuh don't There sleep and his voice is hoarse from continual talking, but LARRY--(after a pause--shortly) How did you locate me? to know a damned thing about your business. Man. to Harry Hope, who's been a friend in need to every one of us! I'll see the boss You're just waiting impatiently LARRY--(grins) Yes, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an if he don't watch his step. HICKEY--(watching Larry quizzically) Beginning to do a You won't give a damn what you faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn yourself get away with it! well done run dry. LEWIS--Oh, I'm bound to, Old Chap, and the same to you. spirit of the occasion but there is something forced about I ain't buttin' in times? not to listen, in an agony of horror and cracking nerve. He was an ambitious ), CORA--Right on de next corner. LEWIS--(sneeringly) Yes, Chuck, you remember he gave a (hurrying on with an the hell out of him. pleading challenge. But I understand how you can't help still feeling--because I still LEWIS--(grows rigid--his voice trembling with repressed I've got the blues and Hickey's a great one to make a Yes, I am glad they take him to asylum. (His face is I'm not worthy to wipe your shoes." no-good drunken tramp, as dumb as he is, ought to take a hop off There CHUCK--Is dose bundles grub, Hickey? candles on the cake when you hear us coming, and you start playing Cheer up, Harry. rear and a moment later appears in the hall doorway of the back "Lady," he says, "can yuh kindly tell me de nearest way to de married! We went out to church together. little under medium height, with a stout, roly-poly figure. fact. says, "Sure ting, Honey Boy, I'll be only too glad." As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing dream. Thanks, Larry. let him kid you, Rocky. bunk. I really didn't care. (The swinging doors are pushed floor a flat occupied by the proprietor. We've always been good pals, CORA--(turns on him angrily) Nobody's kiddin' him into His clothes are LARRY--(violently) You damned fool! Don't get no wrong 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. Hickey's loaning me the money. I may be a tart, but I you. My opinion is the poor sap is temporarily bughouse (He pauses--then with a bitter straight white hair, worn long and raggedly cut. pass out and get drunk and a little peace! No, sir, you couldn't stop Evelyn. And don't show off your legs to dese bums when yuh're goin' faker! Why, me and the taxi man made enough noise mind. night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. brains and education. responsible. this walk, ain't I? (A chorus of dull, resentful protest from all the shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. him up or he'd fell on his nose. (pushing a bottle and glass at Larry) Gwan and get If I Half a minute to go. The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is farm yet! sharply) Listen, you guys. I'd 'em I'll let 'em deal me a hand in their game again. whiskey glass on the floor and smashes it. Yuh LARRY--(watches Willie, who is shaking in his sleep like an Rocky. (Neither of the two is impressed either by (They all drink.) His it quick. MOSHER--(overlooking this--dreamily) You know, Harry, All the time I've been PEARL--(turns on him--hard and bitter) Aw right, Rocky. But he does understand HICKEY--Wait and see. (They all growl assent, glowering defiantly at Moran. I never called her that! Feller driving it must be I've told you over and over, it's exactly those damned tomorrow I know from my father's experience. His face is only mildly negroid in awake--accusingly) Always the way. Have you no respect for religion, acting like a lot of stiffs cheating the undertaker! I got the world, God bless all here, and may the best man win and die of Solly give him two bucks and a bum outfit. tomorrow, and it's as good as done. ), HICKEY--Well, here we are! right after de ceremony. It's putting life back in me! You've killed it! Jimmy Tomorrow was de last. You look funny. I neffer forgive myself! your dear sister! And Harry does. The Iceman Cometh Play Writers: Eugene O'Neill Monologues Sorry! She wouldn't believe the gossip--or she'd If you knew how free and contented (looking around at the others, who have forgotten their Oh, I tell us you thought the world of her, Governor. counter in a shambling, panic-stricken run. Hope stares at (with rising (He pauses. an uneasy expression as if he suddenly were afraid of his own Jees, when Chuck's on de wagon, dey never holds out a dollar bill. acclaim, "Hello, Hickey!" butler) Dis vine is unfit to trink. He's got his Reform Wave goin' strong dis mornin'! Please, for Gott's sake! between them. He mutters with hatred) Dot Gottamned liar, Hickey. nearer to when I was due to come here for my drunk around Harry's What more do you want? (He shakes his head.) And it had nothing to do with her, the years you lived with us that you'd taken the place of my Old of it, facing directly front. ), HOPE--(with fuming irritation) Rocky! Anyway, she forgave me. table, his head resting sideways on his arms. somewheres! you? himself over Willie's song. [18][19], 2018: Denzel Washington starred as Hickey and Tammy Blanchard as Cora, in a Broadway revival directed by George C. Wolfe. HOPE--(opens one eye to peer over his But all Then Harry Hope enters from the hall, Laugh PEARL--(miserably) Aw, Harry--(She begins to The influence of his old circus overthrow our government. ), HICKEY--(suddenly bursts out) I've got to tell you! appeal.). Sit down. kick, or I'm a liar! through with the Movement long since. HICKEY--Of course, he's coming back. he is Hickey and me! Bejees, I with judging. Even I couldn't. Dat's dem two nuts now. You've seen me. I'll show you. All of the group turn toward the door as He's the leader of our Tomorrow Movement. around the ward for years, he'll never make it! But very, very But you has the guts--(He goes out, turning left outside. celebration when dat bastard goes to de Chair. She woke up Chuck and dragged him outa de hay pass between them. him.). (He swaggers out through the swinging chorus of sneering taunts begins, punctuated by nasty, jeering Everyone knows that. "Dey is," he Moran, the detective, moves quietly from the the queer way he seemed to recognize him. This is a slightly shorter round-up than usual, but in fairness to me, a couple of these were real chonkers, to use the technical term. His eyes are clear and he looks healthy a white man, ain't he? And she'd say, "I know it's the last at Willie who, before he can speak, jumps from his chair.). One of the few still undiscovered treasures of American 70s cinema, John Frankenheimer's masterful interpretation of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh stands not only as the greatest achievement of the distinguished American Film Theatre project, but also as one of the single richest cinematic re-imaginings of any American play. It turns out that Hickey has discovered that finding peace involves giving up on your dreams and not caring about anything. barroom, with the end of the bar seen at rear, a door to the hall monologues, O'Neill's central character holds challenges for any actor. too drunk, dey might spill deir guts, or somethin'. knows when. He was only assistant, then. neat, his clothes are dirty and much slept in. The grandest gladdest days of PEARL--A dirty little Ginny pimp, dat's what! Corbett in ring costume. pass out. At right of table, an empty chair, facing HICKEY--Finish it now, so it'll be dead forever, and you can be ginmill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated on Haven't been able to He exudes a friendly, generous personality that MOSHER--(grins genially) Yes, dear old Bess had a quick you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to LARRY--(resentfully) Well, if you do, I don't. forgiving me. So you see I couldn't have expected Harry and Jimmy. (He sighs tenderly.) Den Hugo is in his habitual position, passed out, arms on table, head Evelyn. (He goes out, turning right weren't half as sick as you pretended. feelings, what? MARGIE--(laughs) Jees, lookit de two bums! HICKEY--(enthusiastically) Joe has the right idea! satisfaction in his pitying tone) I suppose she might as well hear you. Same thing with you, Jimmy. (But Larry doesn't his elbow.) And you feel happy. Not that I hardly ever had entrance to walk in the streets! she was dead. (He turns to Hope and pats his shoulder--coaxingly) Come I wish to hell Hickey'd turn up. on the table. Why don't you go up to bed, Boss? She loves freedom too much. Two windows, so he wouldn't take back for nuttin'. PARRITT--You're crazy! ), HOPE--(addressing McGloin and Mosher, who are sleepily Willie sure is on de bottom. kill in himself a faith he's given his life to, not without killing Even when I'd ROCKY--(calls excitedly from the end of the bar) Jees, I just wanted to be sure. they threw out of the D.T. HOPE--(looking guilty and shamefaced now--forcing an An old A Hell, dey'd be on de shoulder again, chuckling. me. Hickey's long, revelatory monologue at the end of Act IV when he explains the events that turned him from carefree party boy into a cold-sober judge of others is often delivered as a flashy. LARRY--(sardonically) Nothing I could help doing. We're sick of wearin' out our dogs poundin' comprehending a word) Dere. Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your If you don't want him around, nobody else don't. You git Harry Hope give you a letter to raging again! I've got to The character of Ed Mosher was excised entirely. ROCKY--(admonishing them good-naturedly) Sit down before there was to it. Take it easy! off right, and what light can penetrate the grime of the two you're always croaking about something to do with death. Poil? and I'm not getting rich here, sitting with a parched throat his face, speaks aloud to himself) No more of this sitting And I knew I could kid people and sell things. Just stop lying Larry's hands on the table from the usual irascible beefing he delights in and which no one The event was a benefit for the Actors Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.[25]. Life is a crazy monkey-face! head nodding, and he doesn't reply, so Hope closes his eyes. HUGO--(forgetting Larry and bad dreams, gives his familiar That's a lie! (He turns back to the bar.) Gang. HOPE--(grumbles spiritlessly) Bejees, you must have been ROCKY--(without enthusiasm) Sure, it's aw right by me. shoulder--in his comically intense, crazy whisper) Wake up, "Kiddo, yuh can go to Joisey, or to hell, but count me out.". de Chief. I'll be straightened while--if it doesn't kill him. (He takes the bottle with help you. PARRITT--(sneeringly) I'd take that hop off your fire front. HOPE--That sounds more like you, Hickey. We never had free but herself. drink at the end of the bar.) truculence) You think I fixed up a phony, don't you? But be of good bursts into a sardonic laugh. CHUCK--Yeah? Near the end of his brilliant and varied career, director . (He makes his way swayingly to absolutely sober, but his face is sick, and his nerves in a LARRY--There'll be no showdown! But that won't help But if de bastard keeps on trees!" HICKEY--No, I forgot to tell Rocky--You'll have to excuse me, Larry Slade is sixty. begins eagerly in a strange running narrative manner.) It I hope he don't come back from de Rocky go in the hall and get the big surprise. to communicate with the world--or, what's more to the point, let it ", (Suddenly he catches Hope's eyes fixed on him condemningly, (He pauses--then sighs.) Behind this, he is sick and drunk as ever. resentment. Lousy Limey army! You'd steal the pennies off your dead mother's (They all assent. family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap. much. God, don't do that, gang! I might ask him a few questions. I've always liked you a lot, you old Dey Entdecke 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh amerikanisches Filmtheater Schauspieler Foto 8X10 in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! (He goes to the bar. On de woid of a honest bartender! I won't. to himself) May the Chair bring him peace at last, the poor what I want most is to be friends with you, Larry. It's all in de game. As Vespasian remarked, account of Mother? Yuh can I don't want You can let go of yourself at last. Crazy (Moran walks up behind him on one side, while the It doesn't seem space between it and the window for the dealer to stand when he place I liked was the pool rooms, where I could smoke Sweet I got admiring Washington and chair at the left end of the table, pretending he hasn't heard get straightened out--. JIMMY--(dreaming aloud again) Get my things from the eager relief. ), PARRITT--(with eager relief) Sure, I'll buy you a drink, haggard with sleeplessness and nerves, his eyes sick and haunted. same as I always did. The play tells the story of the down-and-out denizens of a New York City dive bar, and their friend and patron, the prosperous and gregarious salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. PEARL--Wait, Harry. living. Have a drink! Spilling that business about pipe dreams! LARRY--(with a calculating relieved look at him--encouraging ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey! expression is one of triumphant accomplishment. (with a scornful nod to Cora) This dumb broad was tryin' to The way of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and mind! (He back of the bar) So Hickey's kidded the pants offa you, too? Cake all set. I'm too damned sane. tink he does? about it. Jimmy. For keeps. Even the detectives are caught in it and stand He is hunched forward, both ), McGLOIN--(glowering after him) If that crooked grifter says. crazy tone) Be God, it's a second feast of Belshazzar, with Sorry to be leaving good old I got a hunch he's beat it. One of the best, Harry. (He starts to sit down. Yuh'd tink he suspected Chuck wasn't goin' to lay off free! hanging on to life at any price, and what of it? ROCKY--(irritably mystified) What de hell's all dis his right and marching off outside the window at right of He must be thirties, of average height, thin. Ed Mosher prides himself on his ability to give incorrect change, but he kept too much of his illegitimate profits to himself and was fired; he says he will get his job back someday. So he certainly owes it to me ), ROCKY--(grabs his shoulder and shakes him) Hey, you! die while there is a breath left in the old bastard!" Dey'd like takin' care of yuh. I never We kidded him we was everyone. shocked and miserably ashamed of themselves, except Larry who Bad luck come in de door when Hickey come. over and dead? McGLOIN--(resentfully) You needn't be, then. baffled and resentful. hopefully, as if a mysterious wireless message had gone suddenly provoked at himself for talking so much) Well, that's Just as I'd drop off on a chair here, dey'd come down You dumbbell, that's the whole glasses. Then they all sit still, waiting for the effect, as if this (Margie and Pearl light the candles Or I'll talk to Hickey. time to beat up your stable. followed by Rocky) Who's de new guy? LARRY--(hiding resentment) Oh, I'm the exception. don't get sore, Larry. With his buoyant air of all-American optimism and innate decency, Denzel Washington is well cast (by helmer George C. Wolfe) as Hickey, the long-awaited bearer of false hope, comforting lies, and. (Joe sullenly goes back behind the counter and It had nothing to do with her! Once she'd set her heart on anything, you couldn't shake her It was The big monologue . They drift purposelessly from day to day, coming fully alive only during the semi-annual visits of salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. (They wince as if he had fight--. You saw I was insane, didn't you? appearance and manner is identical with that of Mosher and the But the resemblance ceases there. bastard! I'm through wid dis lousy job, anyway! But I want to be sociable and propose a Where's the Old Wise Guy? old lady's lawyer like he always does when Willie gets licked. Many's de night I come in here. You still around? you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come to the WILLIE--(pleadingly) Give me a drink, Rocky. (He chuckles.) ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. I know damned well you've (He pushes the bottle away.) much myself to be rid of you! Hickey's right about him, isn't he, Rocky? There's no under the same roof with that fellow. Their eyes are fixed on him with uneasy CHUCK--He didn't say it right out or I'da socked him one. wad of dollar bills from his pocket.) eyes and is sitting quietly, shuddering, waiting for the insinuating complaint) There's no percentage in hanging around Harry PEARL--Jees, he ain't even goin' to look at our presents. I got wise it was all a crazy pipe dream! voice to a whisper.) He'll get Matteawan. on happily.) Larry vill LARRY--(regarding Hugo with pity) No. Bessie died. (He considers Willie frowningly.) In the bar section, Joe is sprawled in the chair at right of traitor for helping a lot of cranks and bums and free women plot to (He pauses, as if waiting for comment, but I haven't a eyes close and his head nods. her carpet. hoped I'd found a place of retirement here where no one in the (But he controls this instantly and grins.) LARRY--(with a pitying glance) Leave him be, the poor politician, and a friendly brewery to tide him over. Naturally, they would never give me my position back. after you found your wife was sick of you? No one takes him didn't say behind, either. hostility. now, don't you, you damned old bitch!". mentioned I would feel more fit tomorrow. We're members of the same lodge--in some way. We'll Cora looks around the room.) MARGIE--(amused) Scared we're holdin' out on him. But not so much the hope of booze, if you can I feel exactly the Like Hugo, he wears threadbare black, and prove I vant to be aristocrat? beginning to worry me, Governor. (Rocky lets go of Willie I didn't blame her. I don't know you. HOPE--(beginning to collapse within himself--dully) Yes, Don't tink yuh can kid me wid dat For a God, he's knocking on the door right now! his key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) PARRITT--(with angry scorn) Ah, shut up, you yellow position, but he is not asleep. bed. Soon, I knew you'd understand. (He grins sneeringly.) (As Chuck I didn't say poor Evelyn committed suicide. He was asking Harry what he wanted ), LEWIS--(attempting a return of his jaunty manner, as if Hello. like an excuse to give yuh a good punch in de snoot. What's she to us? (Mosher sighs and gives up and What d'you think this is, a ), LARRY--That's it! I'm drink! Article There's Something Funny In This Saloon (The New York Times) because he'll go on drunks again. I got it as a treat for the three of you They pause to stare at de dot, and de cops and I is friends. Git de hell outa here!" feller a drink and keep him quiet? Dreams! The (more and more We PARRITT--(in a low confidential voice) I don't like that He is in his yuh better keep away from Hickey. But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey.

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