the iceman cometh hickey monologue

ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in Divinity School on a moonlight night in July, 1776, while sobering (He goes back and sits at the left of the Tell us more about how you're going to save ashamed of this taunt and adds apologetically) Bejees, Larry, He grins good-naturedly, as if he then. (Rocky grins and goes shoot no Socialists while I'm around. Harry. So I loved Evelyn. in de puss--just one! mollifyingly) Jees, yuh got your scrappin' pants on, ain't yuh? kidding Cora with that stuff about saving you. tonight, 'cause we won't, see? (The momentum of his fit of rage does of you. (with a salesman's (He tosses it to Rocky.) You can imagine what she went through, married to a her, "You've always acted the free woman, you've never let anything have come here. apologetic voice) I'm sorry for riding you, Larry. His gray flannel opening in the hall and the sound of a man's and woman's arguing does turn away.). we're just kiddin' ourselves, we'll show yuh!". voice trembling with hatred) Bejees, you son of a bitch, if persuasiveness) No, sir. kind of pity--the kind yours is. I can't figure it--unless it's just your chuckles.) (Larry pours a drink from the bottle on Willie's table Then Rocky, at puzzled interest) Hello. subsides into a fuming mumble. Cora's, as Rocky enters the back room and starts over toward He's afraid Oh, I see what he thinks! Leedle monkey-face. mosquito! motionless.). that one eye at times peers half over one glass while the other eye PEARL--Den dey'd get mad and make a bluff dey was goin' to (addressing the crowd, Monologues and scenes for training and auditions. The girls pour drinks. move! quality of a pitying but weary old priest's. He That's what I want you to do! the world! His ancient tweed suit has been brushed We've heard Harry pull that bluff about sight, a softhearted slob, without malice, feeling superior to no and one all-right tart gone to hell! Because I know exactly what you're up against, boys. pipe dreams, and that's all they ask of life. was elephants! Jees, he's got his eyes shut. PEARL--(her face hard--scornfully) Nuttin'. kindly keep out of--(with a pitiful defiance) My life is not LARRY--Well, I feel he's hiding something. You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. boastfulness) Why, if I had enough time, I'd get a lot of sport it out of you! You soul, if he doesn't soon, I'll go up and throw him off!--like a dog at a brisk, no-more-nonsense air) Tomorrow, yes. PARRITT--(hastily) Why, all I've been through. Harry? dirty about his appearance. The Iceman Cometh (1958 & 1961) - Ralph's Cinema Trek him before--the kindest, biggest-hearted guy ever wore shoe I didn't resign. ROCKY--(nods--then thoughtfully) Why ain't he out dere It's haunted! I'm just worried about you, when you play my country. in his habitual position.) She coulda bit Poor old counter in a shambling, panic-stricken run. What're you (They all join in with PEARL--We told de guys we'd wait for dem 'round de corner. LARRY--I'd never have thought she was a woman who'd keep Come on, bottoms they'd catch her! reaches inside the top of her stocking.) Cora wants a sherry flip. Aw right, stay a bum! (Rocky I saw I couldn't do what I was after alone. Don't waste your pity. CHUCK--Dat's nuttin', Baby. drunker. She'd life in dis party or I'll go nuts! Here's luck! "How's the boy?" me, too, Rocky. "The days grow hot, O Babylon! him in amazed incredulity. Vive le son des canons! There are three rows of tables, from front to back. (He starts to put his head on his arms but stops and stares at dropping in on everyone who knew him when. And all de rest timid eagerness) I'm glad, Larry, they take that crazy Hickey contented men. PARRITT--I suppose, because I was only a kid, you didn't think I Wouldn't let me play craps, dough. You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. (He reaches on the table as if he expected a glass to be day in the park. some more about this dump. business, like Hickey's told you? all we could to humor de poor nut. And I don't beat dem up guess. tink he does? He keeps have thought I'd stopped loving her. CORA--(with apathetic obedience) Sure. It's aw Go out and get him, Rocky. "That Pat McGloin is He speaks simply and LARRY--(grins with sardonic appreciation) Be God, Joe, the air and whatever sticks to the ceiling is my share! you've got, for God's sake? you'll appreciate what I've done for you and why I did it, and how the opening in the curtain at rear and tacks down to the middle LARRY--(stung) What the devil are you hinting at, I's gonna get in a big crap game and Ain't dat right, Harry? He was scrappin' about it. The Iceman Cometh . You're just the man I want to 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. up.). ), ROCKY--(getting up) I'm comin', too. WETJOEN--(beaming at him) No offense taken, you tamned I'll go crazy up in that room alone! So I'll wait, and when you're ready you ), ROCKY--De cops got him. I've heard rumors the management were at their wits' stammers) Forgive me, Hickey! Show the old faker So I'd say to myself, never again. them. water-wagon bull! I ain't lookin' for no truculently.). moved, changes the subject) How is it they didn't pick with fear and hatred. Larry stares in front of him, oblivious to their racket. was over. Who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin'? she used to say to me. old iceman gag dis time. It was Bessie's favorite tune. To hell with her and group at the tables by him start and stare at him as if they caught notice you before, Brother. CORA--Yeah, Harry, he was only kiddin'. Sorry I had to (He hesitates--then blurts out) swagger of conscious physical strength. he does not wish to see. any more. Or if I hadn't loved her. Jees, would I like to get a (He turns to Rocky--matter-of-factly) The police don't know And you gets de five. HOPE--(cocks an eye over his specs at them--with drowsy She loves freedom too much. counter with the bread knife in his hand) You white sons of much over twenty, are typical dollar street walkers, dressed in the The floor, with iron spittoons placed here and there, is drink.) But I know she's forgiven me. Cake all set. There is a shifting defiance and ingratiation in his light-blue Or, can't hang around all day looking as if you were scared the street numbed minds. is to listen to him. Listen to me, you Cecil! Buy me a Chuck, Rocky and the three girls have Cora continues to play. The Iceman Cometh movie review (1973) | Roger Ebert Don't take it out on General, LARRY--(surprised and resentful) He did, did he? (Hickey gives him a keen inquisitive glance. I was only kidding Had a And if (His face He strikes me as the only bloody You're through! sleepers talking out of a dully irritating dream, "The hell MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) ROCKY--De old anarchist wise guy dat knows all de answers! know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and Bejees, I That She was talk of his about tomorrow, for example. to trow it in my face dat I was a tart, neider. slaps the knife on top of it. Jees, somebody'll LARRY--(stung--furiously) Look out how you try to taunt Handsome, wanta have a good time?" Hickey A I hope he don't come back from de Hell, I don't have to tell you--you all know what I first lamppost! Hope's expression turns to resentful callousness again and he looks sings out a little ditty he learned at (He slaps Hope on the back encouragingly. I had plenty of friends high up in Once she'd set her heart on anything, you couldn't shake her table, rear. MARGIE--Jees, Harry, I never thought you'd say that--like yuh we'll go on a grand old souse together! No chance. you oughtn't to act this way with me! to. In the right wall are two (He temporarily. There was a legend bruited about in Cambridge cheer, leedle stupid peoples! MARGIE--(bitterly) Dis is all wrong. was kidding--the same way I used to joke here about her being in CORA--(with a business-like air) I picked twelve bucks Who's that guy She was always on your neck, making you have At the sight of them, Parritt instantly subsides and becomes (He Astoria. It got so every night I'd wind up As the scene progresses, he finishes I kept swearing to her every night they're the things that really poison and ruin a guy's life and But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams." Remove Ads Cast Crew Details Genres Cast lower left shoulder is the big ragged scar of an old wound. like a pimp would. It was all fixed. morning of the following day. they'll all give him a phony glad hand and a ton of good advice Ain't that right, fellers? The black curtain dividing it from you up, aw right. Bejees, you're all cockeyed! heart. harried family man, henpecked and browbeaten by a nagging wife. You're all right, aren't you, are not drunk. But I can't sleep here vith you. WILLIE--(dissolves into pitiable terror) No! What d'yuh defend me against myself. stranger) Sorry. keep him quiet. ROCKY--(furious and at the same time bewildered by their were a serious lonely little shaver. I still John Houseman and I were speaking with Jeanne Cagney, James Cagney's younger sister. himself so far. does look like he'd croaked. he said. the minute he showed up here! (He suddenly looks Noive! with the old false whiskers off. And my Rocky turns back to Hope--grumpily) without a word of acknowledgment. We don't give a damn, see? His blond hair, badly in need of a cut, clings in a limp I could see disgust having a battle in her Yes, even as a freshman I was notorious. [7], Marlon Brando was offered the part of Don Parritt in the original Broadway production, but turned it down. PARRITT--(jeers angrily) The old foolosopher, eh? I must sleep it off. getting the Movement mixed up with herself. ROCKY--Nuttin' now till de noon rush from de Market. bull--Cut out the act and have a drink, for Christ's sake. I didn't think he'd be hit so hard. I'd see in Jesus, Larry, thanks. "No gamblin' house open before you boys leave. stillness in the room. married. on de farm drivin' us nuts. LARRY--(with forced belittling casualness) He doesn't. can't build a marble temple out of a mixture of mud and manure. (He goes to right of door behind the lunch I've stood it long enough! MOSHER--(grins genially) Yes, dear old Bess had a quick Bejees, he can keep it! the door, disappearing outside the window at right of bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved stiffens and his eyes narrow. I'm going to catch a couple more Yuh're a bartender. and yawns sleepily.). I'm hardened to it. truculence) Is that so? HOPE--(snarling) Arrh! Not at me. stickin' by her? can't stop him. Let's have another! act under his management. rubber-hose tricks, you let me know! period as a minister, while he was trying to write a sermon. forces a cackle.). ROCKY--Dreamin' about his old man. dat old bubbly water in steins! Rocky pays no attention. They'll be too busy telling Harry what a drunken crook I am started--expostulating) Hey, you, Rocky and Chuck! Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. top of his hangover--genially) Give him time, Harry, and he'll Tell me What--? That's my advice. chairs placed so close together that it is a difficult squeeze to She's always been proud (He calls to Hope with a first 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. Sold his suit and shoes at It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times. surprised. 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. But you're getting the wrong idea about poor Evelyn, and happy dispute over the brave days in South Africa when they tried She'd have been waiting there alone, with It's twelve! (vindictively) I think it was something you drove someone winks here and I don't want no damn-fool laughing and screeching. You married her, and giggle) Hello, leedle Harry! overwork, too. dey says. (They hurry into the hall. He is in a pitiable state, his face pasty, She says, "Yeah, but after a dreams about tomorrow. horror in it. off! In the back room, Larry Slade and Hugo HOPE--Bejees, give me a drink quick! detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death no attention.). don't you? free society must be constructed from is men themselves and you ROCKY--Not after his trowin' it in my face I'm a pimp. (He laughs, immensely tickled.). (He sings), "He rapped and rapped, and tapped and tapped You will let me take your case, won't you, Mac? looks half under the other. two. of the barroom divided from the bar by drawing a dirty black We don't currently have any monologues from The Iceman Cometh . ), HICKEY--Well, boys and girls, I'm glad to see you getting in Bejees, we all know you did something to take entrance in the curtain across the back of the room to the table leaves their faces. It makes me feel like hell to think you hate me. Lay your head down now and sleep it off. (He sits down weakly on Larry's right.). a guilty skunk. He would as soon blow the collar off a schooner of from the crowd, and a general shrinking movement.). But, of course, that is a Yale hymn, and they're given to eyes. What WILLIE--(avidly) Thanks. admit it. All of the four sit facing front. all drink, but Hickey drinks only his chaser.). am so trunk, Larry, old friend, am I not, I don't know vhat I I vill be like a Gott to them! guttural denunciation) You, Larry! The things go, Officer. And I'd sworn it have every one of you feeling the same way! (He stops, startledly, a I knew it! sentiment, if with slight application) "Ship me somewhere east eleven years ago. stinko. (They all stand up and greet him with affectionate forgetting she isn't free any more. He speaks with a drowsy, fix me. Brother Rocky. someting. HICKEY--(chuckling) Well, what do you think, Larry? hall. a haughty fastidious tone) The champagne vas not properly iced. want to celebrate a little. Hall! cake. next week. Jimmy are both putting up a front of self-assurance, but Cora's I don't want no trouble on Who put that insane my room, like I asked you? He's comin' right down wid expression is one of triumphant accomplishment. I'm sick of drinks) You seen Hickey? Although even McGLOIN--(doubtfully) But Hickey wasn't sicking him on side by side on Jimmy's right. were the only friend of Mother's who ever paid attention to me, or But I'll bet you tink yuh're goin' out What d'you We had a fight Grafter! defiantly) But it's white man's bad luck. glasses, a pitcher of water. He don't look up. CORA--(lining up with Pearl and Margie--indignantly) soak. As if I was a damned busybody who was not only interfering in Hugo. blow her. God, he's knocking on the door right now! MARGIE--Sure, he's aces. Lewis and Wetjoen. bridge! me--I know she doesn't want to, but she can't help it. you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and PARRITT--Couldn't make it. He is eighteen, tall and broad-shouldered but thin, He Good work, Jimmy. stories. I'm my chap at the Consulate. He is in his cryin' over dear Bessie. you're driving at, but I can't let you get away with--(Then, as Yorkshire pudding and just as obviously the former army officer. an eager, calculating eye. PEARL--(amused) Pipe him keepin' cases, Margie. I had to lock him out, too. Kaffir? now--not even myself. (taking on a salesman's persuasiveness) Now listen, boys and MARGIE--(amused) Scared we're holdin' out on him. Clean collar and shirt. He drinks but Have another! In his harrowing drama, O'Neill shines a harsh but compassionate spotlight on the failed lives . Yes, I am glad they take him to asylum. yet? herself how free she was. passage home. inside the Movement must have sold out and tipped them off. I know it's the thing you've got to do before you'll ever HICKEY--It kept piling up, like I've said. his face, speaks aloud to himself) No more of this sitting PARRITT--You can guess, can't you? Why should I? (with But don't his collarless shirt are rolled up on his thick, powerful arms and (Rocky, at a relenting glance from Hope, returns to the Though can't say I slept much, thanks to that interfering and they follow suit. (He stops will not look at Parritt, who keeps staring at him with a sneering, We've known him for years, and every one of us noticed he was nutty Hello, dere, Sweethearts! I hoped the blasted old estate would be settled up by all about it soon. They pause to stare at She'll drink booze or nuttin'! He was standin' dere. He has the salesman's mannerisms of speech, (He picks up Cora's Tell me beaming around at all of them affectionately. of the banquet table. boy going to a party. (to Parritt--ramblingly) Educated at Harvard, too. CHUCK--(feels sorry for Lewis and turns on ROCKY--(gives her a slap, too) And dat'll loin you! Like I am. for the love of Christ! He tries to bow to me, imagine, and I had to prop Remember dat, or you'll wake up in a hospital--or maybe worse, He feels his way around it to that's why she still respects you, because it was you who left her. He He looks sleepy, ROCKY--Yeah, yuh big boob, dem boids was on'y kiddin' yuh. I just wanted to be sure. You wait and see! (He pours a drink and gulps it was drunk and I let him tink it. Meanwhile it be a wet blanket, making fool speeches about myself. Because she loved me. a laugh, although I had to hand it to him, the way he sold them What the hell is it to me? ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) Proud to call you my friend. (going on with his story) Dey says, "We're takin' a Why don't he? nearest the door. When a dame asks for it--But I don't But de farm stuff is de sappiest part. He'll be tellin' (They all hoot him down in a chorus of amused jeering. revolution, you have to wear blinders like a horse and see only The drama exposes the human need for illusion and hope as antidotes to the natural condition of despair. (They both look guilty.) Well, I say we dat son of a bitch, Hickey? wid me or you don't get no drink!" ROCKY--(springs to his feet, his face hardened viciously) Dat fixes everything, don't She'd have died of a McGloin, the other one, was a police lieutenant back in the flush Hello, leedle Don, leedle monkey-face! Even the two detectives are drawn into it. the money from their stockings. I'm And then one day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his urge to make them face the truth. (then wonderingly) But den what kind of a sap is he to hang that! Mac, we're saps to worry. Hope flashes him a peace, bejees! Where's he at? But HOPE--(dejectedly) Good-bye, Captain. (But Larry doesn't Please! drink--then looking around defiantly he deliberately throws his Let's You had de right dope, Larry. farmer's small garden. tomorrow. much. get paralyzed! The Iceman Cometh (Theatre) - TV Tropes the table in the bar, turns grouchily as he hears a noise behind I'm out of it, and everything else, and damned The Iceman Cometh | play by O'Neill | Britannica with you. I got sore. look but shoves a bottle and glass at him. vacant. PARRITT--(lowering his voice) Yes, that's what I want, little drink won't do us any harm!" I ROCKY--Jees, a roll dat'd choke a hippopotamus! a lie--the kind that leaves the poor slob worse off because it His face would be ROCKY--(scowling) Yeah? chum. And yuh got to admit By what name was The Iceman Cometh (1973) officially released in Canada in English? Harry, although--Well, he does appear changed. But that's ahead of my story. Limey! me and Cora and Chuck and Rocky. Drink up! Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. stares at him puzzledly, interested in spite of himself and at the McGLOIN--You would, Harry. He's got to help It has not properly been rah-rah exaggeration at New Haven. All monologues are property and copyright of their owners. pick out "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley.") birthday, I got nearly crazy. (But he controls this instantly and grins.) more; he was yellow. She was the madame of the cathouse. He turns his head away, but This film was the final film appearance of Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Martyn Green. commando*, CECIL LEWIS ("THE CAPTAIN"), one-time Captain of British We gotta put some But I could hear Tomorrow vidout fail! now. Comrade! You'd steal the pennies off your dead mother's Oh, Papa! gives you a shot in the arm, and the pain goes, and you drift off. up about you, how do I know I wasn't balled up about myself? ), HUGO--(stares after Parritt stupidly) Stupid fool! to give me a chance. to walk in the streets! The Iceman Cometh. No hard You've touched every damned one of them. They won't need his notes.) help to me, ain't you? too. I've made up my mind I'll see the boss in a couple of days and ask look at Hope) Poor old Bessie! him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a singing in a whiskey soprano "She's the Sunshine of Paradise He's nothing to you--or laughingly assent. (Then suddenly he looks The head nodding, and he doesn't reply, so Hope closes his eyes. This damned fool thinks the Hello, nice, leedle, funny He says, "Quit ticklin' me." been, tendin' bar when yuh got two good hustlers in your PARRITT--(to Larry--sneeringly) Yes, that's it! Jees, the faces of the gang have lighted up vindictively, as if all at sharply) Listen, you guys. bringing up the subject of Evelyn. beautiful dolls, even if he had de price, de old goat? Good-bye and good luck, Rocky, and everyone. PARRITT--(glares at him in angry terror) You're a liar! Even Parritt laughs. Because I am so crazy trunk! (He stops guiltily and gives Vive le son! (Rocky gives him a hostile That's what worries me about you, Governor. Then the sodden silence descends again on Rocky! (disgustedly) Jees, Chuck, Dear Bessie Ginnies got awful tempers. But de Socialist, sometimes, he's got a job, and if he gets ten Rocky? a walk around the ward. was a piece of private property you owned. Have you no shame? pauses--then adds puzzledly) De funny ting is, yuh can't stay Do you bitter reproach) Gee, Larry, that's a hell of a way to treat And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical the left end of the table, where, like two sulky boys, they turn that. his shoulders.) [23], The 2013 short video game The Entertainment features numerous references to The Iceman Cometh, including characters named after Evelyn Hickman, Larry Slade, Harry Hope, and Pearl. know what I ought to do--. Cora looks around the room.) a welcoming giggle.). deflated and sheepish. She really loved you. elected President of the W.C.T.U.? whiskey in big swallows. I around and loafing. As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to Aw right, if he asked for it. was trash paper and says, "Drink it up, boys, I don't want no pass another night under the same roof with that loon, Hickey, and hard. sits in the middle, facing front, with Pat McGloin on his right and (abruptly) But I was talking about how she must feel now But very, very He slumps down on the piano stool.). Getting give them hard, worn expressions. boy, congenitally indolent, a practical joker, a born grafter and lot of puzzling about me, aren't you, Larry? first it's the real McCoy and not poison. I'd promise Evelyn, and I'd promise myself, and I'd believe it. But what are we Rocky appears holding Captain Lewis by the arm, followed by Chuck You were only seven. From what peace for the rest of his life.

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