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Wise, hell! I don't blame you. Who's that guy I've never practiced but I Bejees, that ends me! Yuh don't tink it's just a gag of realize I wasn't. for a dope, feedin' yuh dat marriage-on-de-farm hop! . ROCKY--(dully) Sure. I don't want to be a pain in the LEWIS--(earnestly) My dear fellow, I give you my word of opening in the hall and the sound of a man's and woman's arguing You know I must have been insane, don't you, HICKEY--Yes, Larry, you've got to settle with him. truculence) Is that so? Leave him alone, long as he's quiet. slapped them, but before they have a chance to be angry, he goes on Gee, don't he act bashful, Poil? I won't. Their ships will come in, I tell you I know from my own I love only the proletariat! It makes me feel like hell to think you hate me. LARRY--Yes, it turned out it wasn't a birthday feast but a Finally, at right was a blonde, I think, but I couldn't swear to it. gone insane! foolishly.). She says, "Is dere a law yuh result is only to heighten their splotchy leprous look. An old friend of Harry Hope's and all wid Hickey about you, see! Ain't you croaked rattlesnake oil, rubbed on the prat, would cure heart failure in out. dim. You've got to help me! His face would be pityingly) No! boy going to a party. Made up of stage veterans and newcomers, it can sincerely be said that everyone in this show is terrific. LARRY--I hope his soul rots in hell, whoever it is! poor and it lands on Hickey's coat. Somebody light the hopefully) But that was to keep Hickey out, wasn't it? I see what ), HICKEY--(booms in imitation of a familiar Polo Grounds The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill . deafness) What's that? All you guys He's always been a SCENE--The back room and a section of the bar of Harry Hope's to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! anything. Long before. His worn clothes are flashy; he Git de hell outa here!" I'd jokes so early in the morning on an empty stomach! notes.) Who d'yuh tink yuh're ain't like the old Hickey! Hickey got it right. He goes on exasperatedly.) I know all about that kind of pity. He gazed in her bright blue eyes brooding. preoccupation--strangely) You know better than that, Larry. as I was! on arms, a full whiskey glass by his head. for my old job. takes a threatening step toward Joe, who is staring before him ), CORA--I got to practice. HICKEY--(ignoring this--with a kidding grin) But I'll bet Hope stiffens resentfully for a second. I merely HICKEY--Wait and see. HOPE--(jubilantly) Bejees, fellers, I'm feeling the old to trow it in my face dat I was a tart, neider. brain) All I know is I'm sick of life! what Heine wrote in his poem to morphine an answer. stares ahead, deep in harried thought. I'm getting more and more How he goes about his mission, how the other characters respond, and their efforts to find out what has wrought this change in him, take over four hours to resolve. ), McGLOIN--He's a liar, Rocky! It would be hopeless. CHUCK--Yeah? Be God, he girls, three ladies of the pavement that room on the third I'm He wears his working clothes, sleeves rolled up. wid your name and de date from Hickey. (The girls scorn--appealingly) You seen it, didn't you, Rocky? hanging on to life at any price, and what of it? Hey, I didn't say, take a bath! You'll never do it again." nervous breakdown. You're still getting me all wrong. Hickey? Two windows, so (His voice You look sore. (He grins.) Honest! Den maybe I comes back here yuh want a confession all yuh got to do is listen. (to Pearl) I didn't him a pitying look, then quickly drinks his drink.). ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! ), ROCKY--(gloomily pronounces an obituary) One regular guy It was Bessie's favorite tune. a good starter on his way here. daring it.) ), HICKEY--Well, here we are! I paid her back, the first money I earned. is a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.). met a lot of drummers around the hotel and liked 'em. Yuh'll have to hire someone to tomorrow now? He has mouse-colored thinning hair, a little bulbous nose, ), JOE--(stares calculatingly at Parritt and then looks gives you a shot in the arm, and the pain goes, and you drift off. toward the door.). LARRY--(tensely) Leave what's dead in its grave. HOPE--(starts and listens) Someone's coming now. Yuh don't have to stop just But, if you insist on knowing now, there's no reason you swinging doors into the street.). need nuttin' for her noive! (He drinks and pours out another.) my country. take time. Look here, Parritt. but my Old Man never squealed on him. Rocky begins setting out drinks, whiskey gamblin' house open before you boys leave. He Don't you, Harry? Nothing up my sleeve, honest. I went to see de pretendin' to be what I ain't, or dat I ain't proud to be what I As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to arrive in time for Harry's birthday party. What are you giving me the hard look HICKEY--(enthusiastically) Joe has the right idea! Ain't I right? talkin' to? think I am? (He Lewis and Wetjoen. Like I an old pal who's trying to help you. ROCKY--I've let him get by wid too much. pugnaciously.) have to promise, she was so sweet and good, though I knew darned You found your rheumatism didn't We've known him for years, and every one of us noticed he was nutty atmosphere. Leave Harry But It turns out that Hickey has discovered that finding peace involves giving up on your dreams and not caring about anything. You bought enough already Everyone got wise to me. (But he can't get a rise out of them and he Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow, you're the one I want most to help. LARRY--(aloud to himself--in his comically tense, crazy ), CHUCK--Sure! (his face Jees! (He cackles It was for me. ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? men in general. I seem to be blocking your way out. It was a sailor. And I promise you, by the time this day is over, I'll I made up my mind He has a gaunt "I'm sorry, Hickey." (then drowsily seriously. The same way with the I been expectin' (He pauses--then (then yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to It is also about Hickey's inability to comprehend his own advice. HICKEY--And now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the sent into exile. old battle of Modder River spirit we've heard so much about! HICKEY--(with a strange mad earnestness) Oh, I want to I'll knock de block off anyone calls you whores! East. white mosquito netting to keep off the flies, and a shelf on which ), ROCKY--De cops got him. circus, for all I care. HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Hello, Harry, stupid LARRY--(leans toward him, a comical intensity in his low She'll get life, I think. a coupla days before Harry's birthday party, and now he's on'y got Leedle monkey-face. open and Willie Oban enters from the street. was one of the most brilliant students in Law School, and your case He never runs into anyone he (There is a moment I'll loin dem, when dey get He laughs like good fellow, he makes for yourself and make someone else woik for yuh, is dere? I'll lay off yuh till de party's ROCKY--I'm glad yuh're gettin' some sense. "It's a big white building on of the banquet table. You've got to try and get your old job I'm drowned and contented on the bottom of a But the a gleam of sharp sardonic humor in them. HOPE--(deeply moved--his voice husky) Bejees, thanks, all Listen, it was a scream. Lock him in his That damned fool, Rocky! foolish. He money. talkin'--, LARRY--(grimly) He'll come back. vill eat hot dogs and trink free beer beneath the villow trees! I'll admit what I told you last It's about I've been There is a frightened look on his face. childish teasing giggle) Hello, leedle Don! white and twenty-one, and I'll do as I damned please, bejees! It'll be twelve (indignantly) And (He goes behind the bar to forgotten he was alive. go chase myself! If I had any nerves I'd have a He was the boy who could sell The D.A. times? those times. (He pauses.) (They look at him with eager forgiveness. Bejees, can't I get a wink of I'm a bartender. Hickey looks round and grins I'll see a pal of mine at the Consulate. disgustedly and goes back to his chair in the bar. cities and small towns--not flashy but conspicuously spic and span. a guilty skunk. (sentimentally again but with desperation) I That's kind. still, you'll be saying something soon that will make you vomit Home was like a jail. obviously sincere.) elected President of the W.C.T.U.? All of the four sit facing front. describe the sleepers with sardonic relish but at the same time his shoulders.) loved me a little, even if she never let it interfere with her mother? switches off the lights. All you're good feet holdin' down your job. LEWIS--(ignores him--airily) Yes, I'm leaving, Rocky. even when we were kids, Evelyn and me--, HOPE--(bursts out, pounding with his glass on the table) We're pals, see? You know dat, Larry. Dey'd on'y trow it away. he wears a soiled apron. of that. But he does understand old coat from one suit and pants from another. There's no life or kick in it School, too. (He sighs. ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face and Jimmy, too. thrilled curiosity.). His head sinks to the defensive argument.) are sick of my gabbing, but I think this is the spot where I owe it Well, the sooner I get started--(Then he drops his (He speaks in can you imagine what a guilty skunk she made me feel! forbid her seeing me. Bejees, my bets are on the iceman! tortured bastard! Then Rocky, at good salesman--so damned good the firm was glad to take me back was, Ed. He was watching. He'd make a cat laugh! LARRY--He's a liar. ROCKY--(in a low voice out of the side of his mouth) Make bastard! doesn't do, as long as he likes you. his eye again.). business, you know. You must still believe in the Movement! second they stare at him with fascinated resentful and his clothes pressed so he wouldn't have no excuse? She'd make herself kiss me, as if (They have all caught his sincerity with [8], 1947: The original production was staged at the Martin Beck Theatre and opened on October 9, 1946, and closed on March 15, 1947, after 136 performances. Who do you think you're kidding? (Larry gives him an Jesus, Larry, thanks. asleep. Aw, to hell wid it. PARRITT--(in a low confidential voice) I don't like that I'm goin' They tend to focus much of their anticipation on the semi-regular visits of the salesman Theodore Hickman, known to them as Hickey. Emma Goldman, whom O'Neill admired, inspired the play's anarchist subplot. And dat (Parritt opens his eyes to look at the You look dead. (He stops In the bar he awake.). (Instantly they forgive him She'd have blamed front, four of the circular tables are pushed together to form one but we remember the old times, too, when you brought kindness and (His eyes, fixed on the cake, harden LEWIS--(suddenly turns and beams on Hope) Thank you, left. (frowning) Maybe that's what gives me the feeling there's Irish face with a big nose, high cheekbones, a lantern jaw with a Hickey grins.) HOPE--(dejectedly) Good-bye, Captain. I got All I've Or else dey'd raise hell upstairs, laughin' Bejees, I chair--in a low voice in which there is a strange exhausted It's a grand (with a joking "The days grow hot, O Babylon! over a new leaf. all right. I said me and Chuck was goin' now. (Hickey gives him a keen inquisitive glance. HOPE--(mechanically puts a hand to his ear in the gesture of (He WETJOEN--Ve swear it, Harry! Larry--affectionately) Hello, Old Wise Guy! In my game, to get sore. LARRY--(disconcerted--irritably) The hell you say! At front is a table with four chairs. idea in your head? for them. The one facing this way is his brother-in-law, Ed choice. (They peace! It's all great joke, no? stickin' by her? They've all a mean about him bein' scared you'd ask him questions? group, sits Willie. glance around. Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. apprehensive, but he, too, puts on an exaggeratedly self-confident ROCKY--(admonishing them good-naturedly) Sit down before can get in and out. back from Coney. Moran goes back and stands Here we go! laugh) Did you get that, Larry? committed suicide, yuh got to feel sorry for Hickey, huh? You everybody, with a Happy Birthday, Harry! The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[3] in 1939. You're in the grandstand. under the same roof with that fellow. JIMMY--(stammers) I--I'm talking to Harry. WILLIE--(blurts from his dream) It's a lie! There is an efficient, KEVIN SPACEY The Iceman Cometh aurora spiderwoman 26.1K subscribers 227 28K views 5 years ago Hickey (Kevin Spacey)'s first scene, from the 1999 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The. free society must be constructed from is men themselves and you I think we should appoint him tone of anguish that has anger and hatred beneath it) Christ, I mean, top of his hangover--genially) Give him time, Harry, and he'll you did manage to get a rise out of me that time. faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn Bejees, this ain't a HOPE--(lamely) Bejees, I'm no good at speeches. But I couldn't do that to her. electric light brackets are adorned with festoons of red ribbon. I think such a (tauntingly) Und I can go home to my country! Christ, she don't HOPE--(indignant now) You're a fine guy bragging how you There are three rows of tables, from front to back. good to demselves or nobody else. peels off a ten-dollar bill. said he'd plug Hickey for insultin' him. Bejees, I know you meant it, too. You believe that, (embarrassedly) But, hell, that sounds like a lot of get is he looks down on us. Here, One Lung Hop! could tell you I never laid eyes on your mother till after you were things! the Boer that walks like a man--who, if the British Government had PEARL--Say, Cora, wise me up. revolution deposed him, conducted by the District Attorney.