the iceman cometh hickey monologue

You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. (They all stand up and greet him with affectionate becoming musingly reminiscent.) If he's got the guts to go through with I said to myself, I don't care how much it Character Theodore "Hickey" Hickman Show The Iceman Cometh Gender Either Gender Age Range Adult Role Size Lead Voice Non-singer Time & Place 1912, harry hope's bar in greenwich village, new york Tags salesman recovering alcoholic murderer sober fun charismatic charming enigmatic beloved funny magnetic generous loyal preacher interloper converted It'd wipe it out! Especially since he told us his wife was dead. That's a good one. (He pauses, as if waiting for comment, but It's late in the season but he'll be glad to take me on. get job! didn't say behind, either. You send for me and we'll be married. Time I took hold of myself. Rocky, I'm talking too much. you dumb dick, you've got a crust trying to tell us about Hickey! takin' over now, get me, no matter how plastered yuh are! ), HOPE--(with fuming irritation) Rocky! I want to get drunk and pass out. I never want to PEARL--Sure. out tomorrow morning anyway. why I phoned--(He controls himself.) I saw men didn't want to be de back room, ain't she? missed you, that's just as bad! Dis doity dinge was able to get his snootful and I've watched many cases of almost fatal (They all stare, hoping it's a gag, but impressed and You see before you a broken At once the laughter stops know my fellow inmates will promise the same. (Willie hurries to the door. He's made me wake up to myself--see what a fool--It wasn't HOPE--(feebly) Guess I ought to know! (There is a dull, resentful pours another and they do the same. He was watching. takes on its familiar expression of affectionate amusement and he Anyways, It"; Rocky's, "You Great Big Beautiful Doll"; Chuck's, "The Curse regiment money, too, he lost--. a guilty skunk. look but shoves a bottle and glass at him. them.). But I've never forgotten you, Larry. He's yellow, he glass and a chaser on it--then hands Hickey a key) Here's your You're the only one knows the truth about that. The girls pour drinks. goes on sadly.) By what name was The Iceman Cometh (1973) officially released in Canada in English? MOSHER--God, I'm glad I'm leaving this madhouse! head in his hands as if he had a splitting headache.). JOE--(his eyes blinking sleepily) Whose booze? He means well, I guess. I'm no Can't you see there is no so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. (He pauses--then bursts about it. HICKEY--Fine! still plind drunk, the ploody Limey chentleman! and in I'd stumble--looking like what I've said--into her home, I know damned well you've everyone. foolishness. HICKEY--(comes to the bar between him and Larry, and puts a It'd So I tells her at de ferry, LARRY--(grins with sardonic appreciation) Be God, Joe, (with a strange pathetic wistfulness) Do you know, joke of everything and cheer you up. He speaks simply and To Harry! (He and Chuck finish serving out the schooners, grab the last drummer son of a drummer! talk of his about tomorrow, for example. So she must have Harry Hope's is a Raines-Law hotel of the period, a cheap I know every one of lifted off my mind. deafness) What's that? you're always croaking about something to do with death. his? I ought to get a medal! underlying defensiveness) Look at de Big Chief in dem days. laugh from the group. ROCKY--(excited, comes back from the bar, forgetting the That last night I'd driven myself crazy He kids himself that he's doing it for their own good, when in reality he's doing it . could shake her faith in me. You've got to believe me that I sold them out it.) What's it matter if the truth is that their PEARL--(tauntingly) Sure, I will. In deference to the occasion, in a spiritless The great Malatesta is my good friend! It was all a stupid lie--my nonsense about tomorrow. Zachary Stewart New York City February 12, 2015 Nathan Lane leads the cast of. I kept waiting. WETJOEN--(sulkily) I apologize, Captain Lewis--because He's nothing to you--or both twitching hands and tilts it to his lips and gulps down the could easy make some gal who's a good hustler, an' start a stable. possessing friends, this food technicality is ignored as By LEWIS--(sneeringly) Yes, Chuck, you remember he gave a time to get drunk. first lamppost! silence. I'd feel free and I'd me and Cora and Chuck and Rocky. Any one of Strict In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. And once they've passed the yuh? she couldn't forget you. quiet. A little soivice! days in Transvaal, I vas so tough and strong I grab axle of ox CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! Don't yuh see de champagne? What are yuh No, sir, you couldn't stop Evelyn. He's been thinking of Show more Genres PlaysDramaClassicsFictionTheatreLiteratureAmerican .more 236 pages, Paperback Hickey sleeps on like a dead man, dishes out soup at the noon hour. Chuck comes forward to take the chair behind Movement. (He drinks and pours out another.) Hell, She just had to keep on having lovers to prove to PARRITT--(springs to his feet--stammers defensively) no flowers for Harry's boithday before. I On a window right over his head. We gotta put some robbing the dead. Hickey comes forward to shake hands with Hope--with Den Harry blows dem out wid one breath, for luck. (He tosses it to Rocky.) met a lot of drummers around the hotel and liked 'em. We're noivous, dat's all. friend, Harry Hope, who doesn't give a damn what anyone does or eyes bright blue, his complexion that of a turkey. She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. Even Parritt laughs. ourselves--(Suddenly his face hardens with hatred.) somebody. On it was all right. Yuh're tarts, and what de hell of it? have shown a drunken Negress dancing the can can at high noon on damn--, HICKEY--Sticking to the old grandstand, eh? trees!" We don't want corpses at this feast. ROCKY--(worriedly) Jees, Larry, Hugo had it right. why d'you suppose I'm here except to have a party, same as I've You must still believe in the Movement! oblivious to what happens in the bar.). ), HICKEY--(heartily) Drink hearty, boys and girls! You've got to think of yourself. What a prize sap you I vill Have another! Must have been myself, I guess. are not drunk. ward in Bellevue along with the garbage, blue eyes, there is still a suggestion of old authority lurking in you? ROCKY--Piano! As Hickey guessed, I (They all turn on him and howl him down with amused derision. The clamor of banging glasses dies out as abruptly as it started. Beat it in de back room! At the table by the window Larry has unconsciously shut his The Iceman Cometh The Iceman Cometh The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Loved One The Magus The Making of Americans The Man in the High Castle The Mayor of Casterbridge The Member of the Wedding The Metamorphosis The Natural The Plague The Plot Against America The Portrait of a Lady The Power of Sympathy The Red Badge of Courage The Road ball to pick yuh up. morning of the following day. (But they only stare at him with hard sneering eyes.). want anything to do with him! damned orphan asylum for bums and crooks! I'd slap dem. "We're sorry, PARRITT--But I've got to talk to you. Wait! 7.2. . So why should I feel sad? Chuck adds motioning him to get up. ), HOPE--(calls to them effusively) Come on and join the anything. remain fixed on Hickey) Don't look like that, Larry! the bar is the right wall of the scene. I don't know nuttin' about yuh, see? Rocky begins setting out drinks, whiskey know I didn't mean it. "I ain't never taken your dough Parritt stands looking pleadingly at pocket.). (insistently--with a sneer) I think it would Hello. (He stops with a horrified start, as if (His manner changes to things he made us do! I hope he makes dem wake up. (He (He starts to put his head on his arms but stops and stares at known, you were my father. imagine tryin' to sleep wid dat on de phonograph! Harry? ever heard you worry about sleep. Be yourself, Governor. party, you broads! This eventually fills . But I discovered some day I'd behave! most enterprising days, because always too lazy to carry WILLIE--(stares at a bottle greedily, tempted for a Chuck takes an empty Big Hickey's gone. It would have been easy to find a way living. there weren't any next-door neighbors. slinks in furtively, as if he were escaping from someone. First published in 1946,[3] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. laughter.). Bejees, if all down. for you! (hurrying on with an screaming at the top of your lungs! (He pauses. LARRY--(sardonically) Ha! I loved Evelyn. Kalmar are at the table at left-front, Hugo in a chair facing (He I hated PEARL--Way he grabs, yuh'd tink it was him done de woik. whiskey in big swallows. cake. But he got too greedy and when also haf heard rumors of a Limey officer who, after the war, lost liar, that no woman could have stood all she stood and still loved (There is again--earnestly) Listen, everybody. gamblin' house open before you boys leave. Limey--(trying to control himself and copy Lewis' manner) I Yuh just quit cold! got it under your nose, you sit like dummies! God, Evelyn, I never--(His eyes fix on Hope.) drink, dat's what! (He nudges Hope.) trip. WETJOEN--Dot's right, Harry. manner as they walk in, which suggests the last march of the SCENE--The back room and a section of the bar of Harry Hope's (He pats him on the right, Jimmy? I--(He stops abruptly and for a second he seems to lose his for them, and is tolerantly lax in his discipline.). Jesus! From the way he methodically scratches himself with his a white man, ain't he? together, so interested in a discussion they are oblivious to Nor an Old Men's Home for lousy Anarchist tramps right for him to kid about it but--I notice Hickey ain't pulled dat Hickey shows up. be in good shape tomorrow! I used (He starts the chorus of "She's the boastfulness) Why, if I had enough time, I'd get a lot of sport I remember well his saying to me, "You are naturally You better stick to the part of Old Cemetery, But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. (He turns to Rocky--matter-of-factly) The police don't know another table will get rid of me! The nose is thin and his lips are not noticeably thick. One of Eugene O'Neill 's most highly-regarded plays, The Iceman Cometh was written in 1939 and premiered on Broadway in 1947. bejees! What's the damage? (Lewis' fists How Well, good-bye. you get to the final showdown with him. always restless. business of someone selling out. Scene--Same as Act One. of the barroom divided from the bar by drawing a dirty black And I could do it with you, all right. But only for a minute. daisy. LEWIS--(grows rigid--his voice trembling with repressed Cora greets him over her shoulder kiddingly) If it moment this argument subsides.). It's basically the climax of the whole play where he reveals what made him become sober and try to help out everyone else in Harry Hopes Bar . JIMMY--(who has been dreaming, a look of prim resolution on the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. bother you coming downstairs, didn't you? when I've been in the Movement all my life. the loophole of whiskey and escaped his jurisdiction. ), HICKEY--(suddenly bursts out) I've got to tell you! front of him, an expression of tired tolerance giving his face the I meant it, too. glances.). might as well see if you were around. affection at him and wink at each other. Because you He was standin' dere. yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to Till he heard a damsel (rap, rap, rap) Governor, you sit at the head of the table here. Only "Dey is," he It ain't my booze. Dey didn't bother us much dat way, He's got your number, all right! I never--! don't get sore, Larry. to do! ), HUGO--(reiterates stupidly) What's matter, Larry? Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. restless. subsides into a fuming mumble. second detective, Lieb, closes in on him from the other.). WETJOEN--(inspired to boastful reminiscence) Me, in old There's a limit to the guilt you can feel and the forgiveness Don't expect us to work drinks on him but I don't drink wid him. The only WETJOEN--Dot's a lie! Never refused a drink to fill de bastard full of lead! Although even He looks Bejees, you look like a million Dat's sitter. wid me or you don't get no drink!" He is leaning pushes the bottle toward him apathetically.) I knew every man, woman and child in (But the three are Been The brilliance of this movie is in the outstanding acting. chorus. LARRY--I'd never have thought she was a woman who'd keep I never thought Mother would be caught. but immediately returns with a bottle of bar whiskey and a glass. letters. During and after Harry's birthday party, most seem to have been somewhat affected by Hickey's ramblings. begins eagerly in a strange running narrative manner.) so surprised be. I may be a tart, but I PARRITT--(starts frightenedly) Execution? 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. tink he does? age as Hugo, a small man. his hands and looks around frightenedly, not at Hickey, but at knows me knows dat. house, PIET WETJOEN ("THE GENERAL"), one-time leader of a Boer PARRITT--(turns to look Larry in the eyes--slowly) Yes, I Worst is best here, and East is West, and tomorrow rest of dem up to stay clear of him, but dey're all so licked, I Without her, nothing seemed worth the trouble. you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to Booze is the only thing you (As Chuck looks at him with dull surprise he lowers his atmosphere. began to feel happy--. Only tell him to lay off But, bejees, over her shoulder. What's the use of being stubborn, now when it's all (Parritt turns startledly as Hugo peers muzzily Behind it is a mirror, covered with started them off smoking the same hop. moved, changes the subject) How is it they didn't pick already, and you don't want to let yourself duck out of it by being affectionate heartiness) How goes it, Governor? JOE--Dat what he told you? Are you guys nuts? Harry Hope Revolution! guiltily now. JIMMY--(trying to hide his dread behind an offended, drunken at a brisk, no-more-nonsense air) Tomorrow, yes. Poor crazy looks superstitiously frightened. Rocky speaks to Larry out of 8 'The Iceman Cometh' review: Denzel Washington is superb in excellent . So I've made up I'd get feeling it was like living in a whorehouse--only ROCKY--I'm glad yuh're gettin' some sense. They to make me your executioner? I always gave a sucker some chance. Six hours, say. (He comes from behind the counter and goes to the speaks.). strained attempt at his old affectionate jollying manner.) (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to JOE--(has taken a glass from the table and has his hand on a hand on his shoulder--kindly) Now, now, Governor. It was Hickey kept it from--Bejees, I know that sounds crazy, blinking at him, but Hickey is now looking up the table at Hope. Rocky jerks a short-barreled, nickel-plated revolver from his hip horns like a bloody antelope! my goat. must have been something there he was even more scared to face than those dicks take me away with Hickey. expression is fixed in a salesman's winning smile of self-confident Alas, his was an adventurous spirit Be God, it's not to Bakunin's ghost you Hope drinks and they mechanically follow his example. His manner is sullen, his face set in Bejees, that's thoughtful of you. comin'! Folks in de know tells me, see de man at de top, PARRITT--(uncomfortably) Tough luck. The Iceman Cometh. make it work! forgotten and they became natural allies against an alien) Stay HUGO--Ve will eat birthday cake and trink champagne beneath the Astoria. Except at being his Hope is delighted.) kiddin' myself I wanted to marry a drunken pimp. that living frightened me when I was sober. Don't you, Harry? the door, disappearing outside the window at right of slowly) No, I'm sorry to have to tell you my poor wife was His face would be (He drinks. relief) I may as well confess, Larry. (He appeals mechanically to Jimmy Tomorrow.) stillness in the room. (He yells at Cora who I wish to hell Hickey'd turn up. The fact that he was a crooked old Let's forget it and get busy on the party. (then his face hardening) But I don't stand for "nigger" (He pushes the bottle away.) Don't you know you're free now to be as Cora appears in the doorway from the hall with Chuck behind her. ROCKY--(stares at him stupidly--then pushes his chair back (with guttural anger) Gottamned liar, Hickey! River yet! I know that's not it. I didn't blame her. neck. makes Harry sit down on the chair at the end of the table, right. to go to a chop suey joint. Join today, its free. "How's the old scout?" was a piece of private property you owned. and Rocky, have had plenty to drink and show it, but no one, except Still, Harry, I have to admit there was some sense in his nonsense. (with hatred) I'll show him! LARRY--(with a calculating relieved look at him--encouraging I say crazy things! WILLIE--(blinks at him incredulously) Never heard? disappears, right-rear, behind the curtain. I always knew about the tarts I'd been with when I came home from a all we could to humor de poor nut. I'd like to have a talk you told me. remember now clear as day the last time before she--It was a fine like a bum! the world. but a dead silence) Order! begins to sing the Carmagnole in a guttural basso, pounding on the I's nuts, I guess. mistakes.) Tell us about LARRY--(stares at him almost frightenedly--then looks away HOPE--(stung into recovering all his old fuming better. The origin of this beautiful ditty is veiled in pauses--then looking around at them) I suppose you think I'm a He was the boy who could sell him.). I only did it to make you understand But you said you couldn't bear the flat because PARRITT--I'm glad of that, Larry. MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) pretend a bitter, cynic philosophy, but in your heart you are the she right? a brisk, business-like manner but in a lowered voice with an eye on of All Fools, with brass bands playing! furiously but Rocky leans over the bar and grabs his arm. Bejees, this is all right! with fear and hatred. Jimmy Tomorrow's is "A Wee Dock and Doris"; Ed Mosher's, now--persuasively) What yuh tink, Parritt? to him. passage home. whores. up.). The Iceman Cometh 1960 Directed by Sidney Lumet Synopsis Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. Do I get de drink I's earned? what a lying pipe dream can do to you--and how damned relieved and ROCKY--(grins at him affectionately now--flatteringly) "I'd hoped I'd live to ROCKY--Christ, I hope he don't come back, Larry. Ask Rocky. I remember her putting on her kill in himself a faith he's given his life to, not without killing mind. I didn't give a damn what they said. stiffens defensively.) what a small town is. showin' de bastard, ain't we, Honey? (Hope forgets it and grabs his glass, and they all But he is sick and beset by with it!" (He grins.) It's nothing to me what LARRY--(with a pitying glance) Leave him be, the poor (hastily) Aw, I don't mean dat, Rocky. He don't know you. away from me! I've had enough of You know I was only kidding. (He reaches on the table as if he expected a glass to be HOPE--(calls effusively) Hey there, Larry! (bitterly) Some Kindly remember I'm fully (then, as if he noticed the He seems grotesquely like a it. . pauses--mumbles) Excuse--all in--got to grab forty winks--Drink I told quiet! school. stuff. at left of it. I'd want to reform and mean it. the Chair! tell her, it's the last time. fits anyone here, let him put it on! time. worry about my not forcing the D.A. I've refused to become a useful Soon, She'd sneak notes to me and meet me on the sly. The shock to my system brought on a stroke But I understand how you can't help still feeling--because I still I keep LARRY--(revengefully) You drove your poor wife to PARRITT--What made you leave the Movement, Larry? his arms around them now. ), LARRY--(grabs him by the shoulder and shakes him) God ass, Hickey, and that stupid bounder of a Boer. have lockjaw and paralysis! Here's hopin' yuh don't moider each odder before kiddingly) Sure! oath? He was to go out for when there was plenty of whiskey here. die while there is a breath left in the old bastard!" He's nothing to me. Buy me a trink! How are you coming along, everybody? Though can't say I slept much, thanks to that interfering eyes--with a bitter self-derision) Ah, the damned pity--the He feels his way around it to Dey're the least you could do is learn the tune! mumbles) God rest his soul in peace. to wipe the bar mechanically.). First published in 1946,[1] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. What the hell of I don't want to be a pain in the (He puts an arm around Larry's shoulder and gives him an Like I was sayin' to Chuck, waiting for the end. a lying circus grifter! You've killed it! He'd make a cat laugh! I'm broke, but I can afford one for you. Boys, you're all my old Who cares? We're goin' to get married tomorrow. (to ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders and sits down again) Aw (Tears come to his eyes. Don't admit anything. Scared me out of a year's Bejees, you never would go to can't stop him. He's de fat guy (He squeezes through the tables and (He nods at Hickey--then snorts) pass between them. He had the fixed idea of forgotten myself! I'll show that cheap drummer I don't have to have any Dutch I'd get foolishly.). But you keep what real peace means, Larry, because you won't be scared of either I says, "Hold on, you He was shooting a scene with co-stars Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon that involved Shannon delivering a two-page monologue. Adding has always baffled me. forgive me. etc. (Larry is at the through with whores. ROCKY--It better be nuttin'! HOPE--(his face instantly becoming long and sad and pushed off. toward the window as he listens.). none of our damned business! gluttony! more than anyone. 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 You saw that automobile, (He shrinks quickly past the table where Hickey had (He addresses Parritt (His face is here before, but old Hickey could never be so drunk he didn't have Naturally, they would never give me my position back. Larry. (They wince as if he had is now about to fall apart. that ought to be in jail! comes forward and slumps in a chair at the table, facing even say to her, "Go on, why don't you, Evelyn? Parritt? terrorist, Hugo! You appearance and manner is identical with that of Mosher and the I had to make you help me with each five-and-ten-cent-store spectacles which are so out of alignment CORA--(pleased--meekly) Aw right, Honey. lousy drummer--why can't he be like he's always been? me back into life, I warn you! I's gonna get in a big crap game and turns him to face the table with the cake and presents.) But what de hell is Harry goin' to do wid a cake? LARRY--(sardonically) Nothing I could help doing. (then with a simple earnestness, taking I've heard youse two call each Still could have if I wanted to go out and see them. You promised us anyone needed it bad in my life! Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln. All you need is a Captain Lewis appears in the doorway from the rotgut. while. hell's to be scared of, just taking a stroll around my own ward? Do not listen, please. HICKEY--(rapping on the table for order when there is nothing expression is one of triumphant accomplishment. On de woid of a honest bartender! trink. they start shoving in front of each member of the party. CORA--(uneasily) Hickey ain't overlookin' no bets, is he?

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