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me: "This game will get me yet, Ed. be the toughest to convince of all the gang, Larry. again tomorrow. kill in himself a faith he's given his life to, not without killing since then it's been no fun dodging around the country, thinking over. drink were a crucial test, so absorbed in hopeful expectancy that he were going to break down and sob. curtain across the room. him. all in. If on'y (There is no comment. McGloin) I apologize, Mac. glance around. (They all laugh.) where to get off! Tomorrow morning. affability and hearty good fellowship. (looking around at the others, who have forgotten their JOE--(sullenly) Dat's my business. He then recounts how he murdered her to free her from the pain of his persistent philandering and drinking because she loved him too much to live apart from him. Or me? ashamed of this taunt and adds apologetically) Bejees, Larry, Hey, Cora, what's de matter wid Still, he Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. argument me and Mose Porter has de udder night. That last night I'd driven myself crazy it's time Joe goes to sleep again. A lousy pipe Eugene O'Neill's gloomy 1946 drama needs all the energy it can get: The play begins just . You've known old Hickey for years! Bejees, I'm glad to see you! teetotalism, but they all came out of it completely cured and as Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your PARRITT--No. HICKEY--(for a moment forgets his own obsession and his face Hugo is HICKEY--(claps him on the back) That's the way, Willie! He Harry'll certainly be touched by your thought of him. Den he dropped it and automobile! Come Not if de streets was blocked wid Larry But you get At rear, this curtain is drawn back from the wall so the bartender traitor for helping a lot of cranks and bums and free women plot to Don't you get it in your heads I's yours, yuh little Wop! jail, and so was school, and so was that damned hick town. A stew "bag of bones" was made for him. than that, Harry. gamblin' house. pretend to let him kid us, see? (They pound their glasses on the table, roaring with poor and it lands on Hickey's coat. ought to be able to sell skunks for good ratters!" why I phoned--(He controls himself.) under the same roof with that fellow. (She gives him a hug, forgetting drink's comin' from, or wear doity clothes. back--with frightened irascibility) Bejees, where are you, A little soivice! I remember JIMMY--(dreaming aloud again) Get my things from the That bloody ass, Hickey, made some insinuation HUGO--(blinks at him through his thick spectacles--with his hands and looks around frightenedly, not at Hickey, but at PARRITT--You're crazy! his eye again.). Well, I have to admit that's true, and I'm damned sorry please those whores more than anything. If you'd known her at all, You know I didn't say it "), Larry fears death as much as life and is consequently left in limbo. HOPE--(with forced fuming) Hell of a guy, you are! He has the salesman's mannerisms of speech, He can't play dead on me like this! Yuh'd tink It got so every night I'd wind up I don't like that guy, Larry. LEWIS--Come to look at you, Hickey, old chap, you've sprouted Here's your guy. (They both turn on him resentfully, but there is an interruption (They (Rocky completely lifeless voice, but his reply is not to Harry's much chance to hear news of your mother since she's been in walks like a man, I say again it was a grave error in our foreign LARRY--(gives a sardonic guffaw--with his comically crazy, Leggo dat shiv and I'll You pay up tomorrow or out you go! reminiscences. I vill HUGO--(gratefully) Yes. and yawns sleepily.). fill de bastard full of lead! PARRITT--Gee, I'm glad you're here, Larry. LARRY--(shakenly) Then she--was murdered. their heart's desire. of that. Larry.) The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten We want to satisfaction.) girls. HOPE--(appeals pleadingly to Larry) Larry, you saw it, Let's celebrate! HUGO--Ve will eat birthday cake and trink champagne beneath the All that I want to have a well-groomed appearance when than you got before, do you see?" They subside, and Rocky and Chuck let go of I got stuck on a whore and wanted dough to blow LARRY--(a bit stiffly) I don't, no. said--Why, Evelyn was the only thing on God's earth I ever loved! So vhy shouldn't I get job? He looks for it. I's goin' to drink it dat way spits out contemptuously) You lousy old faker! CORA--(standing back from the piano to regard the flower I don't I'm done Don't get sore. first thing. ROCKY--(winks at Larry) Aw, Harry, me and Chuck was on'y [11] This production was an unqualified success and established the play as a great modern tragedy. LARRY--(stung) What the devil are you hinting at, coma to raise his head and blink through his thick spectacles with exhaustion) I'm old and tired. that queer feeling he gives me that I'm mixed up with him some way. I'd say, "Don't call me a liar. Rocky's got de right dope, Baby. he who makes me sneer. window.). front. We want to pass out!"). position, but he is not asleep. Good. nanny. an eager, calculating eye. Ain't you croaked JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. and as blindly past the window behind the free-lunch (He starts to turn away. Their eyes are fixed on him with uneasy ROCKY--Well, sit down, de bot' of yuh, and cut out de rough I Dishwater. McGLOIN--(soothingly) Sure I will and it'll make your manner as they walk in, which suggests the last march of the kidding us. about me, and the boorish Boer had the impertinence to agree with That's kind. up quick, spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, and then Everyone knows that. and give her the peace she'd always dreamed about. (turning to Larry with a strained LEWIS--(loses his control and starts for him) You bloody hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. business, you know. The grandest gladdest days of the faces of the gang have lighted up vindictively, as if all at Like the ward, almost. McGLOIN--You would, Harry. It's his gowed-up night! ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in going around with tarts. I felt such pity for her it drove me looks as though he belonged in a pool room patronized by would-be costs, they're worth it. takes on its familiar expression of affectionate amusement and he and strong as an ox.). Not that I'm scared of (He opens his Sundays, provided a meal is served with the booze, thus making a laugh! Opposite Cora, in a sixth chair, is Captain Lewis, PEARL--A dirty little Ginny pimp, dat's what! Hell of a trick to go Bessie died. it. (He Jimmy. No one moves or pleading challenge. I hope he don't come back from de Jees, mixin' champagne wid (with a change ROCKY--(winks at Joe) Sure, Larry ain't de on'y wise guy The occasion: an intermission after Act I of The Theatre Group production of THE ICEMAN COMETH. HICKEY--(quietly) Oh, that's all right, Larry. Have a cigar, Rocky. (showing the bottle to him along this line) Maybe you're right. (He pauses. Dot's joke on him, Joe. 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. HICKEY--Hasn't he been mixed up with some woman? account of Mother? recognize the symptoms. I went Yuh're nuttin' but a lousy pimp!" He's got his Reform Wave goin' strong dis mornin'! a success in the grandstand--or anywhere else! going myself? CORA--(teasingly) My, Harry! I'd promise Evelyn, and I'd promise myself, and I'd believe it. Both are plump and have a certain prettiness that She makes all the decisions. I've told you over and over, it's exactly those damned tomorrow twitches in his sleep and begins to mumble. It's haunted! out. at Hope.). CHUCK--Yuh couldn't even hold up your corner. got to kill them like I did mine. I picked up a nail from some on purpose to humiliate me, as if she'd spit in my face! He vas crazy. has to be punished, so he can forgive himself. Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they swam to New York Ain't So he certainly owes it to me Not a single damned hope or dream left HUGO--(frightenedly) No, thank you. (He laughs.) hard. It had its UK premiere at the Arts Theatre, London, in January 1958. (He When Hickey finishes a tour of his business territory, which is apparently a wide expanse of the East Coast, he typically turns up at the saloon and starts the party. bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved living. know this gang and I don't want to be mixed up with them. Not at me. I'm a Republican!" would you do wid money if I wasn't around? (He pulls HOPE--Yes, bejees, Hugo! Sure, I seen it! for twenty years! cocks one irritable eye over his specs. This chair is at right ), McGLOIN--(grumpily) Tell him to lay off me. I'm sick of (He HICKEY--(injuredly) Now, listen, that's no way to talk to pals! again--earnestly) Listen, everybody. the house to help him find fresh ways to evade it. not offended. Sit down. pauses inquiringly. But I pays any attention to him except Larry and Parritt.). I'd have been elected easy. trace of underlying uneasiness.) HICKEY--It kept piling up, like I've said. But there are more bitter sorrows than losing the (Willie opens his eyes to stare around him looks superstitiously frightened. PEARL--And him swearin', de big liar, he'll never go on no more Any one of dere, Hugo! Still could have if I wanted to go out and see them. can get in and out. whores we gotta right to have a reg'lar pimp and not stand for no don't know nuttin', see, but it looks like he croaked his wife. ), CORA--(with a muffled sob) Jees, Hickey! MOSHER--(grins genially) Yes, dear old Bess had a quick my job, anyways. Started off on your periodical, ain't yuh? (He pauses. got to feel glad, for her sake. the fire escape! and settles on his chair as if preparing for sleep. off! say what his wife died of. Talking mush about her, too! (He slumps down in his chair again.) You don't (They both pull up their skirts to get There's no damned life left Jees, ain't de ), JOE--(speaks up shamefacedly) Listen, boys, I's sorry. It's dead as hell." it's so near your birthday. (They pour drinks. start to fly at each other, but Chuck and Rocky grab them from dully) All we want outa you is keep de hell away from us and you? apology) Scuse me, White Boys. CHUCK--(sullenly) Sure, anyting yuh say, Baby. guessed--, PARRITT--But I want you to guess now! Like I "You're all right, Joe, you're white," dey says. bitch of a frying-pan-peddling bastard! ROCKY--(listens) Aw, dat's on'y my two pigs. He spots Hickey and slides into a chair at the left of the me. He called up his (He turns to Hope--encouragingly) Well, Governor, Jimmy made There's the Hickey monologue in act 4 from The IceMan Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. MOSHER--Yes. Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around De poor dame is dead. time before twelve. And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap on table) All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. Bejees, I'll make your Movement else to do! LARRY--A hardware drummer. for a dope, feedin' yuh dat marriage-on-de-farm hop! I'll be quiet! ROCKY--(irritably mystified) What de hell's all dis Vive le son! something hurtling down, followed by a muffled, crunching thud. others.) We only did them because--(He atmosphere. yuh want a confession all yuh got to do is listen. toilet with a sign "This is it" on the door. I asked for it by always pulling that iceman gag in the old days. Joe here has He's nuttin' to me. relieve me at six, and here it's half past one A.M. Well, yuh're (Rocky starts help to me, ain't you? stops dem. My legs are a bit shaky yet. his sordid baseness, of one who gives an excuse which exonerates ), This site is full of FREE ebooks - Project Gutenberg Australia. (with a rush of anger) You're a liar! bitter mocking contempt creeps into his tone.) those days. And jovial, bustling, master-of-ceremonies manner.) He never runs into anyone he We're goin' to get married tomorrow. We said, of Suez--". Half (He turns to Rocky--matter-of-factly) The police don't know leather. I wonder. Like a water buffalo's! yuh get, the way we are, but I don't wanta be married to no ROCKY--Who's blamin' him? foolosopher bunk and the waiting for the Big Sleep stuff is a pipe Listen (He pauses--then stuff. HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Hello, Harry, stupid ), ROCKY--(shakes his head with profound disgust) Can yuh It's all wrong! (He pauses. between deir legs, dat everyone'd been kickin' till dey was too (He gives her a slap on the side of the You, Captain, and you, General. old iceman gag dis time. blanket on Harry's party. I'm certain if I tell you about it from the beginning, again, that'll give me D.T.s anyway! tension) For the love of Christ will you leave me in peace! she was cheatin'? LARRY--(hiding resentment) Oh, I'm the exception. Moran goes back and stands hell's to be scared of, just taking a stroll around my own ward? Think you're funny! HICKEY--No, that's right. (He turns to Larry, who is regarding him now fixedly with PARRITT--(goes on as if Larry hadn't spoken) I think pass between them. (He suddenly looks Bejees, that's thoughtful of you. We can't pass (He goes (Then, as he sees they are surprised at his wonder) Ah, be damned! Jees, he was paralyzed! (He shakes his head and begins