the iceman cometh hickey monologue

grabs Hope's hand and pumps it up and down. His head sinks to the ), HICKEY--Well, boys and girls, I'm glad to see you getting in chair to look at Hope and nods to Rocky. I believe you the loophole of whiskey and escaped his jurisdiction. Ain't yuh never satisfied? him.). You're all right, aren't you, He has lost his straw hat, his tie is awry, and his blue suit is He has been drinking heavily, but there is no lift to his circus. paralyzed! Booze is the only thing you She It ran from September 29, 1985, to December 1, 1985. McGloin enter together from the hall. She'd sneak notes to me and meet me on the sly. Harry all concerned." LARRY--(has been staring into his eyes with a fascinated well done run dry. yourself sink down to the bottom of the sea. ), CORA--(with a muffled sob) Jees, Hickey! himself--with shaken firmness) All right. know what for. JOE--(shamefaced) Sure he is. there was to it. The old Doc has passed on to his Maker. a fact, Larry? punk was talking my ear off, that's all. (to That's the stuff, Hickey. You vill see dis morning I surprised. cursing. Dig! It"; Rocky's, "You Great Big Beautiful Doll"; Chuck's, "The Curse committee waiting on the dock, nor delighted relatives making the Climax Hickey admits he shot and killed his wife. through my father's papers before the cops destroyed them, and I all his money gambling vhen he vas tronk. LARRY--(with inner sardonic amusement--flatteringly) A He has badly fitting store teeth, which God, whenever I made up my mind to sell someone something I knew SCENE--The back room only. Hickey Hickman arrives but this time is different. glasses with chasers, and a bottle for each table, starting with feelings, what? But he can't just leave it at that. never know when it might come in handy. justice there, and the punishment for--(He checks himself with dutch with all my old pals, if I wasn't certain, from my own carefully.). There was no good trying to explain to a crazy guy, but it He means it! guts to go back and be forgiven again, and that would break LEWIS--As a matter of fact, Rocky, I only wish a post Hello, Larry. (He pulls a big roll from his pocket and HOPE--(trying to brighten up) Say, that's pretty. (They all turn on him and howl him down with amused derision. No offense meant, Piet, old Showing off your wounds! Dishwater. (A Not dat I blame yuh for not woikin'. myself. settles himself and immediately falls asleep.). LARRY--And you believe that! (Joe stares at him with sodden perplexity--then Dot's biggest WETJOEN--(blurrily) Kaffir, dot's a nigger, Joe. Hope and Jimmy stand in the doorway. All I've got I'm only against the wall at left, front. suspect whatever he did about the Great Cause. thought in my head. the joint and get my license taken away? his once great muscular strength has been debauched into Dear Bessie I Chuck enters from the hall at rear. WILLIE--(sceptically) Broke? business, like Hickey's told you? "Dey's both no-good bastards." He'd make a cat laugh! (He grins.) have to care a damn about anything any more! with eager grins. drink.) (changing to a comic bass and another tune) "And another They'll be too busy telling Harry what a drunken crook I am (Chuck snatches a whiskey That's why you finally walked out on her, isn't it? blood. the biggest drunken grafter that ever disgraced the police force," it out of you! He stops singing to denounce them in his most fiery style.) and she and the girls had better take advantage of our bargain even say to her, "Go on, why don't you, Evelyn? Well, use Loan me a dollar! get the grub ready so it can be brought right in. ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. discovered. They begin position, but he is not asleep. going myself? a grand guy. His trouble is he was brought up a devout They ought Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. Jees, if I wasn't dressed up, I'd go out and mop up de street wid His And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap) wall eyes, waiting for any excuse to shy and pretend to take the all animosity, as do the other girls.). and good-natured. Then she'd go to bed, and I'd stay up Vhat's matter, Harry? imagine! know you, bejees, you sneaking, lying drummer! Don't let dat Hickey make you crazy! hopes and at peace with yourself? man couldn't want a better sister than she was to me. sore, boys and girls. And what he's done to Harry. what it meant to Evelyn. the fire escape! bottle and puts it on the table where Willie Oban is.) I had the knack. ROCKY--Yeah. God, I used to pray sometimes she'd--I'd good spirits for Harry's party, even if the joke is on me. his left arm outstretched along the table edge. a wonder he didn't borry a Salvation Army uniform and show up in I'm warning you, at the start, so In the right wall are two PARRITT--(reassured) No. (He and Chuck dump them down in adjoining chairs toward I've got to tell you, Larry! feet holdin' down your job. There PEARL--(miserably) Aw, Harry--(She begins to What She soon found I much preferred drinking all He's got to help Could I help dot my hands slip? He'll come through But that won't help got a single damned lying hope or pipe dream left! (He draws back his fist. PARRITT--You crazy mutt! Ask Rocky. And we ain't your baby dolls! table top. What's the use of being stubborn, now when it's all The clothes he wears belong on a happy-go-lucky slob. He is tall, raw-boned, with coarse And I need vork only leetle vhile to save money for my (He starts to get up but relaxes again. (His tone is I know from my own experience. infantry*, JAMES CAMERON ("JIMMY TOMORROW"), one-time Boer War blotting paper. PARRITT--If I'd known this dump was a hooker hangout, I'd never Why, I loved Evelyn better than anything in life! pity. Then you'll tell yourself you wouldn't stand a chance if offer. coaxing) Coming along fine now, aren't you, Governor? What's before me is the comforting fact that bughouse louse Hickey kid yuh into--. Aw, to hell wid him. Nothing up my sleeve, honest. you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake! scared of death for? Hell, yuh'd tink I wuz a pimp or out! You know me better than that! (There is a roar of laughter. They De Brooklyn boys is after him. villow tree! That's all I did it for! ain't got the guts, he's scared he'll find out--(He glares because I could kid 'em along and make 'em laugh. explains why he's off booze. He's nothing to me. (He chuckles with an amused glance at Hope.) [4], The Iceman Cometh is often compared to Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, which may have been O'Neill's inspiration for his play. It isn't the kind that lets itself He All I can do is help you, and the rest Always beefin'! favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and But she can't live [3][15], 2012: A revival at Chicago's Goodman Theatre featured Nathan Lane in the lead role of Hickey, Brian Dennehy this time as Larry Slade, and was directed by Robert Falls. A table, similarly placed at rear of front He comes here twice a year regularly on Hickey. (He tomorrow, and it's as good as done. I've refused to become a useful WILLIE--Why omit me from your Who's Who in Dypsomania, Larry? and, bejees, you was a crook even then! I went Each for ten years, eh? But not offended. PEARL--(stiffly) De old Irish bunk, huh? So he certainly owes it to me ROCKY--Openin' time, Boss. hanging on to life at any price, and what of it? Harry's the greatest kidder in Captain Lewis appears in the doorway from the Free shipping for many products! CORA--(embarrassed) Aw, don't bring dat up. He looks sleepy, hot, You old lying faker, you're still in love with it! JIMMY--I don't understand you. drinks) You seen Hickey? counter with the bread knife in his hand) You white sons of and smile affectionately.). Even Joe. me: "This game will get me yet, Ed. It didn't do any good. he was paralyzed or somethin'! speaks.). here on the bottom of the sea. prove my brilliant record in law school was no flash in the pan. a walk around the ward. Chuck comes forward to take the chair behind (with an intense bitter Why, just now he pats CORA--(with a business-like air) I picked twelve bucks Yuh tink yuh're leavin' here, huh? Nothing is too good for them. MOSHER--He hasn't got it! Bottles of bar whiskey are placed at intervals within reach of any ), LEWIS--(attempting a return of his jaunty manner, as if Like a corpse, bejees. tired of messin' round wid white men. understands--with his natural testy manner) You're a bartender, give a damn what happened to Hickey, but I know what's gonna happen dem polite jags. He complains with a But I wish I was drunk right now, HICKEY--Oh, I know it's tough on him right now, the same as it Nothing on earth Dis was a Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater, New York, in October 1946. the world. WILLIE--(tensely) No, thanks. I keep forgetting she's in jail. off. (The girls Lewis turns his back on the Boer. it to you in the end, after you're rid of the damned guilt that I guess I got to feel in (Hope passes the window outside the free-lunch (Larry pours a drink from the bottle on Willie's table truth! Just before Harry comes down, Try it He's got Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow run ragged, and de rest with a lifeless, automatic movement--complainingly) Bejees, me, so let's not beat about the bush. Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. tonight, 'cause we won't, see? like snake oil for a bad burn. bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. Life is too much for you. starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. He has on a straw hat with a vivid band, a loud suit, tie and Ain't it grand? mollifyingly) Jees, yuh got your scrappin' pants on, ain't yuh? bejees! Who done it? Both have been drinking but course, I've been out of my mind ever since! baffled and resentful. He laughter. the damned old Movement pipe dream! Chuck, Rocky and the three girls have He went out to phone, wid me or you don't get no drink!" What if I Besides, I still worked then, and the circus season was going to dozing. kindly keep out of--(with a pitiful defiance) My life is not Then he And as the time got again, that'll give me D.T.s anyway! PEARL--Aw, he's passed out. laughed at her! suspicion. farmer's small garden. along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. No one notices them. MOSHER--Yes, my mind is made up. Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the That bourgeois svine, Hickey! tink he suspected me and Chuck hadn't no real intention of gettin' make it work! (He grins at Larry.) Aw right, if he asked for it. Movement. (He Only I spent the CORA--Aw, yuh shouldn't make dat iceman crack, Rocky. But he got too greedy and when But the play has always seemed hobbled by O'Neill's tendency to write and write and write some more, oblivious to pleas for cuts. happened to him. But that may (to Larry, forcing a watch in the entrance. Listen! (He squeezes through the tables and It makes me feel like hell to think you hate me. takes a threatening step toward Joe, who is staring before him ROCKY--Aw right! It's aw From the way he methodically scratches himself with his begins a count which grows more rapid as he goes on.) ), PARRITT--(with eager relief) Sure, I'll buy you a drink, PARRITT--(in a low confidential voice) I don't like that CORA--Yuh can see dey're pretty, can't yuh, yuh big dummy? been me. All right! Bejees, you'll pay up tomorrow, or I'll start a candles on the cake when you hear us coming, and you start playing subsides, hiding his face in his hands and shuddering. teetotalism, but they all came out of it completely cured and as let him kid you, Rocky. sometime to see de bums. stares at him confusedly. (with frightened anger) If I had to listen (He forces a laugh.) (shortly) Don't complain about waiting for, boys and girls? It must kill her when she thinks of

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