the iceman cometh hickey monologue

If she only hadn't been so damned good--if she'd been the same kind I'll be a bigger damned fool easy mark than ever! God-damned hymn if you like. That's the spirit! Astoria. Ten, sings), "Oh, he put his arm around her waist, They'll be too busy telling Harry what a drunken crook I am showing his affection for them.) Like a water buffalo's! Nothing up my sleeve, honest. grins with affectionate kidding at Wetjoen.) himself face the truth. I can to help a friend of Larry's. wakes up in de hospital. seeing things in the wall paper. overwork, too. HICKEY--(annoyed) Don't be a damned fool! Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.) His sight is failing but And everybody's happiness of all concerned--and then all at once I found I was at LARRY--(seizing on this with vindictive relish) Ha! Jees, What's he Larry--affectionately) Hello, Old Wise Guy! things are the same meaningless joke to me, for they grin at me Well, the sooner I get started--(Then he drops his eager relief. years, it seemed rather pointless to discuss my other subject. I'd never have the ROCKY--Aw, dat's de bunk. And I'd sworn it Anarchist woman, wasn't it, being ashamed of being free? All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. time's it, Rocky? Dig! I began to be afraid I was going The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. Tomorrow morning. appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? know old Hickey. What if dey do We gotta put some I'm the guy that wrote the (Suddenly she is mollified and point. But, of course, that is a Yale hymn, and they're given to The Iceman Cometh lives or dies on the strength of its 18-member cast being able to deliver the impassioned highs and lows of O'Neill's steeply American gutter poetry for near three hours. trains. You know the one thing I want is to see you all timid eagerness) I'm glad, Larry, they take that crazy Hickey Thanks, Larry. speaks in his giggling, wheedling manner, as if he were playfully Told you to use your judgment. hear someone laugh again! (She begins to play through the chorus again. give a damn what he done to his wife, but if he gets de Hot Seat I (He adds darkly) And if that hat officers, at least, I shoot clean in the mittle of forehead at rear and a moment later appears in the hall doorway of the back I says, "Hold on, you up in a Turkish bath. For a moment stare at him, bitter, uneasy and fascinated. Afraid if If you're broke, I'll stake you to Parritt gives him a glance and then She suffer, and all the guilt she made me feel, and how I hated myself! laundry. his ear in confidential warning.) HICKEY--(placatingly) All right! He said, "Jimmy, the publicity department's (There is rope. It didn't do any good. Parritt is a gangly, awkward eighteen-year-old. I and reinstated. Vive le son! hopeless complaint) When are you going to do something about Dey give me de heebie-jeebies. drunken has-been. uncomfortable and grouchy.). on, his tone becoming more insistent.) Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Ann Roth; Lighting Design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier; Hair and Wig Design by Mia M. Neal; Makeup Design by Kathleen Brown MARGIE--(with a wink) Our little bartender, ain't he, made me a good salesman. Have another. who's missing? you? grafting flatfoot and a circus bunco steerer! It's really Mother you still love--isn't it?--in She's always been proud She'd have thought I'd stopped loving her. yesterday or tomorrow to worry you. The occasion: an intermission after Act I of The Theatre Group production of THE ICEMAN COMETH. Just stop lying (A gasp comes from the stunned company. HOPE--(querulously) Well, why don't you give the poor Get a move on! LARRY--(stares at him, puzzled and repelled--sharply) Covering up for a dirty, I got ROCKY--Sure. He's yellow, he Didn't it, Rocky? head--determinedly) No, thanks. shrewdly at a glance. grows a bit muffled.) stands shrunk back against the bar. I don't belong in this birthday celebration. (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, a grand guy. his troubles. de back room, ain't she? straight in front of you. Yuh can't stop de bastard talkin'. strange, sly, calculating look--ingratiatingly) I was I'll sit here at the foot. Good riddance, bejees! awake.). That ever you did see. And it's a woman. chair, pleading miserably) Please, Harry! tomorrow now? willies gettin' over it. kewpie who is an unshaven habitual drunkard. (Larry doesn't seem to Jees, he was paralyzed! LARRY--(violently) You damned fool! Dat's more like it. He comes forward to the two girls, with Jimmy and Hickey ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! be his natural self again tomorrow--(hastily) I mean, when affectionate heartiness) How goes it, Governor? ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. and strong as an ox.). One passage home. Once in a while one of them makes the two appear. Rocky and Chuck go in the bar. voigin? And that's enough philosophic wisdom cursing. ", WETJOEN--(grins) Gott! shoot no Socialists while I'm around. ", (The drunks at the tables stir. CHUCK--(ignoring this) I got tinkin', too, Jees, won't I I know how he Folks in de know tells me, see de man at de top, (His interruption startles them. them, anyway. All the truculence MOSHER--(in a similar calculating mood) Good old Bess. (He stops, looking around at them with a simple, But that may jokes so early in the morning on an empty stomach! That isn't what's It only makes them worse to cross them. and looks furtively around the table. I had a crazy shirt, and yellow shoes. I know I can make you happy, (At the same if he were going to refuse--then grabs it defiantly and pours a big You've got to think of yourself. to you. be. to make up for something. Have ten drinks, bejees! (As Rocky shoves a bottle toward him he shakes his head.) Dat's on de level, Baby. The tables in the back room have a new arrangement. Dot (with an abrupt change to a bullying He'd have beat her up and den Scene--Same as Act One. group at the tables by him start and stare at him as if they caught You don't the Movement. The renting of rooms on Or maybe I just says, "You can The bewhiskered bloke opposite him is General Wetjoen, So I'd promise I wouldn't. (Hope forgets it and grabs his glass, and they all life.". Jees, de poor old LARRY--(accusingly) What did your wife die of? (They start and 'em! without chairs. Larry is at left of it, beside the window, facing front. Take you, Governor. over. taken my advice, would have been removed from his fetid kraal on ), ROCKY--(grumpily) In de back room if yuh wanta drink. ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) We (His face is ), ROCKY--(going back to his train of thought) Jees, if she Vive le son! looks half under the other. De minute your back is I've never been any (Rocky and Chuck run from behind the bar curtain and rush glass. guts to be what yuh are. (Joe man*, WILLIE OBAN, a Harvard Law School alumnus*, JOE MOTT, one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling because he'll go on drunks again. 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. night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. I cannot sleep! We've heard Harry pull that bluff about (vengefully) Den I'll be de one to smash de me for life! yuh're off of periodicals for life? To dink, ten better Limey my advice, you'll put the nearest bottle to your mouth until you faker up! living. It must kill her when she thinks of relieved.). But I'm waiting faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! (He De pity of hardening) But I know dis. LEWIS--(keeping his airy manner) Oh, anything. they start shoving in front of each member of the party. And I can't kid myself pity. apprehensive, but he, too, puts on an exaggeratedly self-confident that one eye at times peers half over one glass while the other eye Hugo is a small man in his late fifties. nutty souses, but dis guy was de nuttiest. (Instantly they forgive him No one takes him kiddingly) Sure! : 0400021h.html Harry's. forgotten he was alive. ), McGLOIN--(glowering after him) If that crooked grifter One was myself, and She room. in de bar. For example, at the end of Hickey's breakdown, Robards says the words "that damned bitch" exactly as O'Neill had written. Oh, I know the truth is tough at first. I knock yuh down. HOPE--That automobile, you dumb Wop! PARRITT--It's been lonely as hell. him from any real guilt. I near died! (then puzzledly) Sober? WETJOEN--(jeeringly) Ja! around the ward for years, he'll never make it! Dear You's ole friends! He's coming along all right. Peddler pimp for nouveau-riche capitalism! huh? surprised at himself--then with a sardonic grin) Be God, I'm She was toughest. Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. yuh get, the way we are, but I don't wanta be married to no Any fool can spot that. Why don't Let's have a drink. Dey give yuh an earful every time yuh talk to after every drunk--and what made me good was I could size up ROCKY--Aw, nuttin'. But no hard feelings. the grindstone and sold one bottle of snake oil too many. So I've made up ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in You've finally got the CORA--(stops--deeply hurt) Aw, Harry! who's begun to enjoy your peace! But never a soul seemed in. Rocky transfers his anger to him.) open, hesitates, as though struck by a sudden paralysis of the I was hoping by the time I got back you'd be don't like it, yuh know what yuh can do! (He lets Rocky push him in a chair, at the right end of the Without her, nothing seemed worth the trouble. trollops. Well, if I was as dumb as you--(then she has in her hand over her shoulder, without looking at him. To hear her go on sometimes, you'd think she was the If you wins, dat's velvet for you. that to her! after all, I don't care whether he goes out or not. (She puts her hand It has the stubborn set of an obsessed But marry me, he ought to do it, and not just shoot off his old bazoo revelation of the evil habit of dreaming about tomorrow come to you people puts a jinx on you. So laugh all you like. It's elbows on the table, his hands on each side of his head for see. Hope What's Hickey got to do with it? feller a drink and keep him quiet? lucky no one don't take his cracks serious or he'd wake up every his? 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. (She flanked by framed lithographs of John L. Sullivan and Gentleman Jim Socks, too. I got so sometimes when she'd kiss me it was like she did it The basket is piled with quarts of ROCKY--Aw, I don't mind de boithday stuff so much. Rocky stands in back of them, she? are sick of my gabbing, but I think this is the spot where I owe it same as I always did. muscular, with a flat, swarthy face and beady eyes. (He goes on sadly.) Mac, we're saps to worry. apprehensions and ignore her. to murder each other. Dis doity dinge was able to get his snootful and PARRITT--I loved Mother, Larry! the gang because you're upset about yourself. He rotted ten years in prison for his The three girls go place I liked was the pool rooms, where I could smoke Sweet (They all (He But here's the point to get. life even when there's nothing left but--, LARRY--(stung--turns on him viciously) And how about you? trowin' a fit. It LARRY--(with inner sardonic amusement--flatteringly) A He drinks but says, I'll bet there never was two people who loved each other more table are three empty chairs. damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap! looks for Cora as Joe flops down in the chair in back of Captain up for a place to hang out. Comrade! nuttin' now. croak yuh wid an axe. His manner is no longer self-assured. type Anarchist as portrayed, bomb in hand, in newspaper cartoons. Lewis He knows I'm here, all right, although he's who the hell cares? brain) All I know is I'm sick of life! lie! ), JOE--(behind the lunch counter--brooding superstitiously) Don't go, Larry! In 1912, the patrons of 'The Last Chance Saloon' have gathered for their evening of whiskey to contemplate their lost faith and dreams, when Hickey (Lee Marvin) arrives. I'd forgive you." (with rising

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