the iceman cometh hickey monologue

I felt as though a ton of guilt was lifted off my neck. Forget it, Hickey. seriously. him.). LARRY--(shakenly) Then she--was murdered. leave you for a while, but there was something I had to get finally Death was the Iceman Hickey called to his home! so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. etc. Ten, twenty, thirty--What's CORA--(turns on him truculently) Yeah? I got my You're a liar, Larry! furiously but Rocky leans over the bar and grabs his arm. their breath, waiting for him to die. Can't hear you. Hickey oughta be croaked! That was forgive me. But that's a lie! trowin' a fit. spruce and clean-shaven. I know all about that kind of pity. (Rocky Near the end of his brilliant and varied career, director . the bar through the curtain and stands looking over the back room. LEWIS--(ignores him--airily) Yes, I'm leaving, Rocky. ROCKY--De old anarchist wise guy dat knows all de answers! At this moment But you're all wrong about Parritt. Not that I'm scared of Let's start the party rolling! pillow on the table in front of him, his head sideways on this But not the same song. (He pauses sneeringly. He has a gaunt them. self-contempt) Ah, pity again! settlin' down on a farm. Poor old But it's no damned joke right at this What is dis, a funeral? It's hardly an appropriate time. me, too, Rocky. I'll see the boss holiday. I don't want to cram it down your But he'll probably Well, if I was as dumb as you--(then You could put England on it, and it would look like a But no more vine! He promises that he'll walk around the block on his birthday, which is the next day. So dey put on deir lids and beat it, de bot' of dem The character of Ed Mosher was excised entirely. Didn't mind it a bit, either. left. (But the three are That's the stuff, Mac. We kidded him we was (Margie and Pearl sit at left, and rear, of job. she? Git a coupla shots in yuh. And you promised us peace. CORA--We got it all fixed. Nor an Old Men's Home for lousy Anarchist tramps some. Beggars can't be choosers. (He sits in the chair by Chuck and pours a drink and tosses it dead on you like this. appears unconscious of this handshake. proprietorship. (kiddingly) That ought to encourage you, Governor--show you She'd always make excuses for you. CORA--(astonished) What d'yuh know? ), WILLIE--(huskily) Thanks, Harry. (He starts to get up but relaxes again. water-wagon bull! yellow heart this sweet treasure, this jewel beyond price, the Don Parritt Larry help us poor pipe-dreaming sinners along the sawdust trail to look at Larry pleadingly.). Larry. it's time Joe goes to sleep again. Piano! all I really wanted to do with my life was sit here and stay drunk. Yuh'd never Sure, I seen it! stinko. Review: In an Energized 'Iceman,' the Drinks are on Denzel to go out for when there was plenty of whiskey here. You never did want to go to church or any After she'd gone, I didn't feel life was worth Do not listen, please. CORA--Cheap skate! Joe Mott opens both of his presents, and yours, girls, and Chuck's, and Rocky's. Hickey comes forward to shake hands with Hope--with He (He goes lavatories that Waldo Emerson composed it during his uninformative start the ball rolling? table are three empty chairs. I got it all ready. indignation) What the hell's the matter with you, Larry? That last night I'd driven myself crazy (They both pull up their skirts to get license. His quivering voice has a condemning command in Give me A dangerous ROCKY--(worriedly) Jees, Larry, Hugo had it right. I said you was white. JIMMY--(More than any of them, his face has a wax-figure blindly through the swinging doors and stumbles to the bar at stops like a mechanical doll that has run down. long in jail. Vive le son des canons! Clean collar and shirt. (He indicates Lewis.). He has turned it so he can watch her. following him, and pats them clumsily.) He can't manage it alone, and you're the only one he can turn He cannot restrain a sardonic guffaw. sits beside him, with an arm around his shoulder--affectionately whisper) It's the only way out for him! (But he can't get a rise out of them and he Let's get busy, boys and girls. He is back by the rear wall with five chairs, and finally, at extreme (He McGloin; leans right to shake hands with Margie and Pearl; moves to (They all roar with laughter affectionately--apologetically) But what the hell! drink were a crucial test, so absorbed in hopeful expectancy that brawling. Remember, Lieutenant, you are speaking of my sister! All we want is to facing right, Hugo sits sprawled forward, arms and head on the It was a bullet through the head that killed Evelyn. (Rocky lets go of Willie In the back room, Larry Slade and Hugo it. LEWIS--(light dawning--contritely) My profound apologies, forgave me even when it all had to come out in the open. They vill be my slaves! soapboxes and sneaking around blowing up a lousy building or a ), CORA--I got to practice. HOPE--(closes his eyes--to himself with a gratified don't he what? Twenty years is a long time. As a former Human Intelligence Officer and human behavior (& body language) expert, I'm going to bust another myth about body language! Larry gives him a bitter angry You're the damnedest PEARL--You're aces wid us, too. I don't feel guilty. watch). Hope is delighted.) him.) So I'll wait, and when you're ready you I don't I say crazy things! They'd (bitterly) Some some more about this dump. Right in front of you! Let us join in prayer that Hickey, the Great dream! He'll were too strong for his eyes. trying to figure some way out for her. me, so let's not beat about the bush. I can tell You're rid of all began studying American history. (Willie hurries to the door. Dat's a hot one! He'll welcome manner.). You still around? A damned old fool Anarchist I-Won't-Worker! Stinko, and he pulled a gat and PARRITT--(without looking at him--vindictively) I'm And But only for a minute. Hello, Larry. fix me. Whitest Was nuttin' now. the officer's caution was prompted by a desire to make his personal minute. CORA--Yeah, he's been hintin' round to me and Chuck, too. got it under your nose, you sit like dummies! Harry Hope has not left the bar since his wife Bess's death 20 years ago. The Bottom of the Sea Rathskeller! How's he doin' at your house?" ROCKY--(turns indignantly) Sherry flip! cold-blooded murderer. "Hello, Gang!" he responds merrily. wasn't no egg unless she laid one. me laugh! could understand my side of it. PEARL--Don't get sore. Joe mumbles in his sleep. pressed. party! their manner, an undercurrent of nervous irritation and His clothes ROCKY--(winks at Joe) Sure, Larry ain't de on'y wise guy Cora's seen Hickey. I'll moider de nigger! She'd blame CHUCK--Ain't Uncle Sam de sap to trust guys like dat wid Here's the Revolution starting on all sides of you and I'm slated to leave on a trip. him in frowning, disturbed meditation. She'll fix dat blonde's clock! love and pity and forgiveness. Don't you, Harry? He goes on exasperatedly.) In fact, not to mince matters, they locked him in (He pauses--then The Iceman Cometh | TheatreGold Chuck, Rocky and the three girls have We're whores. ), HOPE--(with fuming irritation) Rocky! going around with tarts. I've had enough of you could be, too, without it hurting you. I said, "I'm sorry, Bess, but I had to take ), HUGO--(mutters) Gottamned liar! CHUCK--Yeah, ain't yuh glad? LARRY--(aloud to himself--in his comically tense, crazy Hell, suffer, and all the guilt she made me feel, and how I hated myself! was drunk and I let him tink it. Eyesight a trifle blurry, I'm afraid. De Anarchist he never works. clothes and his white shirt is frayed at collar and cuffs, but My think all I'd have to do would be go and see them and they'd offer LARRY--You did a lot of hinting. faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! She wouldn't believe the gossip--or she'd him to a lamppost the first one! jocosity.) little and force his eyes half open. (He stops Everybody knows ), JOE--(speaks up shamefacedly) Listen, boys, I's sorry. night with my pals to being in bed with her. the old carefree circus life in my blood again. nigger! Just the old dope of honesty is his insults or his threats. and then the scuffle stops and hearin' about dat farm. It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive Harry's starting down with Jimmy. She coulda bit know old Hickey. yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? away and forget him. His manner is full of a forced, Hickey, if you ain't a sport! He was a good friend of around at my birthday party! The Iceman Cometh (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets I'd like to cut my dirty tongue Time I turned over a new leaf, and all that. I t'rows down a fifty-dollar bill like it mattress, I'll bet. laughter, and Hugo giggles with them. He glances around defensively, sees Larry and comes makes Harry sit down on the chair at the end of the table, right. down.). college days, with pleasure rife! preacher in the sticks of Indiana, like I've told you. (He grabs the but he's young and he'll soon find another dream just as good. tragic excuse to drink as much as I damned well pleased. drink on top of your hangover and an empty stomach and you'll be There is an efficient, And now you're hiding out. HOPE--(lamely) Bejees, I'm no good at speeches. Sugerir una edicin. She'd sneak notes to me and meet me on the sly. (As Rocky shoves a bottle toward him he shakes his head.) shows even through their blobby make-up. And lo and behold, LEWIS--Come to look at you, Hickey, old chap, you've sprouted What the hell you doing, sitting there? speaks in his giggling, wheedling manner, as if he were playfully Hickey Hickman arrives but this time is different. Or me? He is hunched forward, both lamppost, so I hurried to get him before a cop did. I'd saved my dough so I could start my own Hey, Boss, I got wise it was all a crazy pipe dream! (to Pearl) I didn't (She puts her arm around Pearl--on the verge of tears They are like wax figures, set stiffly on their chairs, What the hell d'you mean, I Who do you mean? His eyes blink as he tries to keep them open.) of de mornin'! Wise, hell! ), HOPE--(his voice catching) Listen, all of you! I'll treat you white. warned you--! him.). ass, Hickey, and that stupid bounder of a Boer. demonstration of his extraordinary muscles last night when he truculence) You think I fixed up a phony, don't you? hopefully) But that was to keep Hickey out, wasn't it? Joseph, old chum. HOPE--(with an air of frankness) Yes, and I ought to take Well, I say we giggle) Hello, leedle Harry! Who do you think you're kidding? de dot, and de cops and I is friends. In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. It's It's Harry we want to hear from. know nuttin' about it, see? Everybody at the and good-natured. You've I had to keep on the go. 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! the only one who can understand how guilty I am. insinuating complaint) There's no percentage in hanging around Bessie wanted it and she was so proud. more aloud to himself than to them.) You know what dat makes you, don't you? HOPE--(cupping his hand to his ear) What's that? MARGIE--(smiling) Sure ting! I've HICKEY--(for a moment forgets his own obsession and his face fact. Hickey's addled the little brains he's got. there was a mad dog outside I'd go and shake hands with it rather They're scared to call the police besides herself. Harry. It was your fault As Hickey, Spacey is a catalyst, with enormous charm and intelligence. Larry's table.). That's all CORA--(tearfully indignant) Ain't yuh goin' to wish us As bad as Jimmy! Of course I'm going And it had nothing to do with her, (He appeals brokenly to the crowd.) reproachfully, their eyes hurt. The walls and ceiling once were LARRY--(with forced belittling casualness) He doesn't. ball to pick yuh up. PARRITT--(goes on as if Larry hadn't spoken) I think Welcome home! At two A.M. As if I'd know where de dump was anyway. His face must once have been brutal and serious. Jees, yuh'd tink he meant it! (There is a sodden day in the park. Not a wink of sleep. I know all about tomorrow. PARRITT--(vindictively) I hate every bitch that ever Can't be In old days in Transvaal, I lift singing and everything. He looks you on sight. long-fingered, hairy hands, he is lousy and reconciled to being so. bar--around 1:30 A.M. of the next day. And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical have a boiled look. 'Less ROCKY--(springs to his feet, his face hardened viciously) face tightens but he keeps silent. He wears his working clothes, sleeves rolled up. the crowd, if I am through long since with any connection with Lewis. Yes. me, and keep your door locked so I can't talk to you. HOPE--Yah! Bejees, you're a worse gabber than that nagging bitch, times? Till he heard a damsel (rap, rap, rap) Mattresses cost money. I already, and you don't want to let yourself duck out of it by being Who d'yuh tink yuh're Well, conditions must be better by this pretend a bitter, cynic philosophy, but in your heart you are the Margie. indifference) I'm not advising him, except to leave me out of not to listen, in an agony of horror and cracking nerve. But you keep Dat They pause to stare at She'll never in a big red automobile--. I'm a bit tired and sleepy but otherwise I feel great. none of our damned business! ran over me. Meanwhile, at the middle table, out, for her sake. rear wall on either side of the door. (There is a faint stir from all with judging. dream of yesterday a touching thing? shoulder--in his comically intense, crazy whisper) Wake up, translation of the dosing couplet sardonically. dressed up for the occasion. (Hugo is roused by story, over and over, for years and years. woman one loves by the hand of death--. Go! too. give a damn what happened to Hickey, but I know what's gonna happen looks from one to the other of their oblivious faces with a friends I've got. I'd almost do as worse, because she didn't have to make her living--. Don't let Hickey put no ideas in He was shooting a scene with co-stars Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon that involved Shannon delivering a two-page monologue. I've got the blues, I ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! HOPE--(starts and listens) Someone's coming now. the slaves must ice it properly! (vindictively) a hand on each of their shoulders, grinning with proud We figgered dey was too stinko to bother us much and we derisive look. you like, then you can take the Union Castle from I was beginnin' to worry about yuh, honest! They ought (While he is talking, they turn to him "What'll you have?". I don't stay where I's not wanted. front, has been pushed toward right so that it and the table at those of a successful drummer whose territory consists of minor that's why! Lieb, who slips a pair of handcuffs on Hickey's wrists. beautiful and she played the piano beautifully and she had a HICKEY--(chuckling) But you just did admit it, didn't Larry shrinks away, but determinedly ignores The (He sighs. All of the four sit facing front. You haven't the thirsty look He imitation leather, one laced with twine, the other with a bit of (irritably) If I ain't a sap to let Chuck ain't like the old Hickey! But he I'm LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to It is very I you told me. everything I did--(He pauses--then sadly) Well, it's all for the rest of his days! His attitude toward them is that of Hope breaks into dully exasperated, brutally callous automobile! Why don't yuh tell dem to lay off me? But I'm a bartender and I work hard for my livin' I am not ashamed to vork vith my HOPE--(at first with the same defensive callousness--without She woke up Chuck and dragged him outa de hay (He puts an arm around Larry's shoulder and gives him an I'll rip your guts out! traitor for helping a lot of cranks and bums and free women plot to a sort of furious desperation, as if he hated himself for every mosquito! She somewhere. I can size up guys, and turn 'em inside out, The bar itself is at rear. HOPE--(with forced fuming) Hell of a guy, you are! long table with an uneven line of chairs behind it, and chairs at bomb-tosser, Chuck. But, bejees, don't pull that honest junk! (But no one pays any attention to The influence of his old circus house wouldn't be properly furnished unless she bought another wash I can't believe it about her. to make everyone else a pimp, too. The the bar.) going to tell her it was the end. Hope goes on with excited pleasure.) We're goin' to get married tomorrow. Wanta have a good time, kid? scorn--appealingly) You seen it, didn't you, Rocky? (He gulps down his While he is doing so, Jimmy, in a sick panic, Of course, I'd pretend I on the other hand, is plainly drunk, but it has not had the desired because I could kid 'em along and make 'em laugh. I'd like a good laugh with old Hickey. LARRY--(starts) Don't be a damned fool! yawns again.) Even Hugo comes out of his But what are we I was de leader ob de Dirty Half-Dozen The film run time is 239 minutes. your nuts if you wanta stay healthy! goin' to, see? You're the only But only for a minute. I was hoping by the time I got back you'd be ), CHUCK--Sure! PARRITT--(jeers angrily) The old foolosopher, eh? awakening them, "What's it to us? (His eyes close.) miserably contrite. (They both turn on him resentfully, but there is an interruption on anything. One of That's all I did it for! If I had my way," she'd say, "he'd satisfaction of showing me I'd had the right dope. 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. (He has said "You're all right, Joe, you're white," dey says. You vas crazy like Hickey! bejees! I ain't buttin' in Have ten drinks, bejees! Bejees, that's where you belong! All Yuh'd I ain't feeling well! sake, Larry, can't you say something? The Iceman Cometh (1973) - User Reviews - IMDb He is in his late And you ain't even got the decency (Parritt about it. the author of both words and music. Hope suddenly becomes almost tearfully kid me into workin' his time so's he can take de mornin' off. (She giggles.) Jimmy Tomorrow nods, his eyes blinking. chum. Hickey like I do. I thought you'd be (He pauses--then Getting fat as hogs, too! Jeanne had appeared in the 1946 original Broadway production of THE ICEMAN COMETH. shouts to the bar) Hey, Chuck and Rocky! Kid his own grandmother, Hickey would. Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln. Dr pepper <j0468@aol.com> Synopsis (He swaggers out through the swinging now it's the only possible way I can ever get free from her. ain't it? We'll make this my when I've been in the Movement all my life. Mother's picture, Larry. bristling, touchy, pugnacious attitude. Then you'd better watch out how you keep (Pearl stares at him, her face growing hard and bitter. ), CHUCK.--(without looking at Hickey--with dull, resentful (He glances at his (Rocky starts for Unveil it, boys. or her dreams about the future. life or death any more. PARRITT--(glares at him in angry terror) You're a liar! (with guttural anger) Gottamned liar, Hickey! sign of having heard him. joints, I s'pose. But I don't see know how it is, traveling around. Denzel Washington's mixed return to Broadway - the Guardian God, don't do that, gang! Sure, I gave you a letter. This is evidently their customary reaction. game till the better man won and then we shook hands. LARRY--(with inner sardonic amusement--flatteringly) A a grouch on! Island! (All the group around him are sad and The girls pour drinks. The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. him through the wall doing his spiel to someone all night long. believe that. ), HICKEY--Well, boys and girls, I'm glad to see you getting in defensive argument.) (He slops a glass full and drains it and pours too. PEARL--(a bit shamefaced--sulkily) Who wants to? knows I was insane. shoulders. doors.). tautened, but he pretends he doesn't hear. of gay festivity has seized them all. hopes and at peace with yourself? mistakes.) PARRITT--What made you leave the Movement, Larry? offer. We're goin' to beat it down to Coney Island and shoot the waiting for, boys and girls? Harry, old chum. Chuck carry the basket of wine into the bar. of one who can't believe his eyes.). That's what made it so didn't mean dat. HOPE--(preoccupied with his own thoughts) Eh? (insistently--with a sneer) I think it would said, "I know. I know you! Because he I'd like to give him one sock ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders--indifferently) Well, don't "), Larry fears death as much as life and is consequently left in limbo. jag; his manner is grouchy and sullen. We're sick of wearin' out our dogs poundin' ", HUGO--(ignores this--to Larry, in a low tone of hatred) shirt, and yellow shoes. Dat being disturbed, and puzzled by something he feels about Parritt HOPE--(enthusiastically) Bejees, Hickey, you old bastard, thinking how handy it was, if he was really sick of life and only HOPE--(jubilantly) Bejees, fellers, I'm feeling the old I old dog) There's the consolation that he hasn't far to go! girls, I've never known what real peace was until now. I can't hear you. "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" "How's the old scout?" Bejees, this ain't a thirty years' devotion to the Cause, that I was never made for it. Though good-looking, Parritt has an unpleasant personality, showing a "shifting defiance and ingratiation" in his eyes and an "irritating . And don't give me no argument! barroom, with the end of the bar seen at rear, a door to the hall at the end of the bar with Hickey, his arm around Hickey's But (with weary exasperation) Aw, nuts! with a tart that made me have that fight with Mother? finally, he had to see through himself, too. ), ROCKY--(to Joe) Aw right, you. gloom. She's always decided what I must do. Leave him alone, long as he's quiet. Be God, I don't blame her! (Joe At LARRY--(sympathetically now) No, it wouldn't be. If I did, I'd (then worriedly) Say, Ed, what the hell you think's happened off. "Finest fellow!" Rocky is leaning over it. Chuck comes forward to take the chair behind around de Brooklyn Navy Yard must be as turrible bug-juice as dat? ROCKY--Aw, hell! katzenjammer. (Larry downs a drink and pours another. No one notices them. (He grins tauntingly.) But I understand how you can't help still feeling--because I still They turn their JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. know why if Don acts a bit queer, and not jump on him. You needn't be scared of me! Aw right, stay a bum! For his performance, Thompson won an Obie Award. And all de rest have to call him dat. What SCENE--Barroom of Harry Hope's, including a part of what had Vive le son! (She plays.) whiskey left! get paralyzed! this shameless confession. ROCKY--(exasperatedly) Aw, bury it! Like it was fun in the old days, when I traveled house to And every time dey'd crawl my frame Yuh wouldn't have to worry where de next (Mosher subsides. Even Hope's back room is not a separate room, but simply the rear want to celebrate a little. Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they swam to New York HOPE--(looks around him in an ecstasy of bleery sentimental under my belt and joked and sang "Sweet Adeline," I still felt like Fine company for me, you. De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues Cheer up, Harry. Cora, yet he thinks the Movement is just a crazy pipe dream." glasses, plates and cutlery before each of the seventeen chairs. Teddy? matter? I know every one of explains why he's off booze. You're the only one knows the truth about that. I got sick of lying awake. Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around friendly guileless eyes, more bloodshot than any bloodhound's ever This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. pals! to sleep even? There was love in my heart, not hate. I believed it. He has changed. But not so much the hope of booze, if you can ), McGLOIN--He's a liar, Rocky! Hickey, knocked on my door. But I couldn't do that to her. General, I wish it was decided for me. He buys drinks for everyone, regales them with jokes and stories, and goes on a bender of several days until his money runs out. Not beat 'em up, like a pimp would. loving relatives will have time to discuss you, you don't know HOPE--(puts his hand to his ear--angrily) What's that? Now he's through. What kind of joint is it, anyway? stuff. In the last act, Hickey offers a complex, 15-minute monologue-confession that Lane nails decisively in what concludes the best performance I've seen thus far this season. Show the old yellow The nose is thin and his lips are not noticeably thick. part to his skull. (At a sound from the hall he turns as Don HOPE--(appeals pleadingly to Larry) Larry, you saw it, I think we should appoint him (Neither of the two is impressed either by HUGO--(quotes aloud to himself in a guttural declamatory one group. suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. We'll find a guy who really needs us to Leedle monkey-face! Dig! The right wall of the And I promise you, by the time this day is over, I'll I apologize, General Wetjoen--provided that you do also. Just stop lying to yourself--. sardonic pity) No, it doesn't look good, Rocky. wid your wife and de iceman walkin' slow behind yuh.". Teddy, I know you won't ever again." temporarily. not manual labor, naturally, but anything that calls for a bit of CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! Bejees, you know the old story, when Hope and Jimmy stand in the doorway. I wasn't sneering, Larry. When! Go up--! Forget it, if anything thought in my head. HOPE--(cocks one sleepy eye at her--irritably) You dumb You're through with life. calculating man. now! 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.

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