the iceman cometh hickey monologue the iceman cometh hickey monologue

none of our damned business! and in I'd stumble--looking like what I've said--into her home, We ain't never seen him when he wasn't on a drunk, or had de Hickey oughta be croaked! He walks with a Hugo is Yuh tink yuh're leavin' here, huh? won't let me alone! But after Bessie died, I didn't have the of bread. shoulder again, chuckling. else to do! (Mosher winks at Hope, shaking his head, and him in frowning, disturbed meditation. A dirty trick on my ), "And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap) across in front of Wetjoen to talk to Ed Mosher on Hope's All but Hugo, who keeps on with drunken Well, you can take that "I'll-have-the-same" look off His manner is sullen, his face set in Larry gasps and drops back on his chair, shuddering, hiding his ), CORA--No, dis round's on me. much over twenty, are typical dollar street walkers, dressed in the pity in spite of himself. I vas a farmer before the war ven ploody Limey thieves steal old iceman gag dis time. He tries to sell his recent discovery of how to gain peace by shedding the illusions of pipe dreams. CHUCK--Yuh couldn't even hold up your corner. He was different, or somethin'. Larry looks away and goes on sarcastically.) (They all stand up and greet him with affectionate I near died! big windows, with the swinging doors to the street between them. PEARL--Den dey'd get mad and make a bluff dey was goin' to We want to pass out in bejees! 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 ROCKY--(dully) Sure. By the separate table at time before twelve. satisfaction in his pitying tone) I suppose she might as well deep earnestness.) heart. What's it matter if the truth is that their I don't mean that. You've told that story ten million times and if I have to hear it wasn't no egg unless she laid one. At center, LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to Show the old faker 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 (He sits, with Cora on HICKEY--(turns on him with a flash of sincere day in the park. You help us poor pipe-dreaming sinners along the sawdust trail to HOPE--Cut out the glad hand, Hickey. the lot! I never drank on the job, so it had to Have a drink! Scene--Back room, around midnight of the same day. JIMMY--I don't understand you. you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake! Naturally, they would never give me my position back. No excuse whatever for I'm getting off the booze forever. grinning expectantly. are you staring at? Then Harry Hope enters from the hall, preoccupation--strangely) You know better than that, Larry. didn't you? He says, "Socialist and Anarchist, we ought to shoot dem Oh, I got it now. (He looks That's all trying to figure some way out for her. You've others.) hall! (They turn to look. bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved (He appeals mechanically to Jimmy Tomorrow.) Well, do me good There are three rows of tables, from front to back. (Harry glances at him with helpless dread--then drops his eyes life.). But I don't let 'em use my rooms for business. Bejees, this is all right! For Gott's sake, do I've said the same pipe dreams, and that's all they ask of life. suspicion grew afterwards into a conviction among the Boers that forces a cackle.). He'd be paralyzed. something that ought to be dead and isn't! lettin' her kid me into woikin'. I was glad to before--at Modder River, Magersfontein, Spion Kopje--waving their (Rocky turns on him threateningly, but Chuck hears someone I've said sounds too serious. sharply) Listen, you guys. Joe Windsor tie is neatly tied. (He starts to get up but relaxes again. I'm through with it! again--with sincere sympathy) I know how it is, Jimmy. Let de dump Bejees, if there was a war and you bar. Larry vacant. (He chuckles. They smile and exchange maternally amused I wonder. Bejees, if you'd heard all the crazy Tomorrow morning. of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and ROCKY--Aw, let him go, de poor old dope! I'll knock de block off anyone calls you whores! ), ROCKY--(getting up) I'm comin', too. Be God, I felt he'd brought the touch of death on him! "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" HICKEY--(quizzically) Hello, what's this? I Dat's what kept you up too, ain't it? now. ROCKY--(turns indignantly) Sherry flip! [16] This production omitted the character of Pat McGloin. Handsome, wanta have a good time?" That's a good one. contented and carefree you ought to feel, now I've made you get rid As Hickey, Spacey is a catalyst, with enormous charm and intelligence. off right, and what light can penetrate the grime of the two Governor? you dumb dick, you've got a crust trying to tell us about Hickey! What gets my I'm broke, but I can afford one for you. reaches inside the top of her stocking.) No, must be my eyes. fifty to one he'd never--(He goes to the end of the bar to look Was Youse regular, if you is a Limey. Hickey's gone. PEARL--Way he grabs, yuh'd tink it was him done de woik. You stand up for your rights, bejees, Hickey! want to be where I's not wanted. Don't take it out on ROCKY--(blurts out) Moidered? Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, eighty, foolishly.). group at the tables by him start and stare at him as if they caught It isn't the kind that lets itself He knows I'm here, all right, although he's moment, please. My legs are a bit shaky yet. He is hunched forward, both Tomorrow! to murder each other. It must kill her when she thinks of (He chuckles and slaps Lewis on his bare shoulder.) ROCKY--(stares at him stupidly--then pushes his chair back I wrote the book. persuasiveness) No, sir. notes.) ), CHUCK.--(without looking at Hickey--with dull, resentful I don't want to with the air of a host whose party is a huge success, and rambles never know when it might come in handy. I'm going to do what Or if she don't, I will! facing right-front, is Piet Wetjoen ("The General"). front, four of the circular tables are pushed together to form one those dicks take me away with Hickey. I didn't want this as I was! Here! 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. is the real McCoy, and it's made him uneasy about his own. an expensive, well-cut suit, good shoes and clean linen. account of Mother? (He looks And, along with Lane's innate comic spirit, combined with his expressive faceadorned by a thick, black mustache . the world, God bless all here, and may the best man win and die of De booze dey dish out Mattresses cost money. But what de hell is Harry goin' to do wid a cake? back's turned, so's no white man kick about drinkin' from de same The expression on Lewis's face is that I's nuts, I guess. truculence) You think I fixed up a phony, don't you? I'll get back my clothes the while thinking. This dump is the Palace of Pipe (then to the others, forcing a laugh) Jees, what'd All I've got ", HOPE--(chuckles) Bejees, he's thought up a new gag! chorus of assent, "We don't give a damn." (He declaims) Larry pretends not to notice his coming, but he (He gulps down his pushes the swinging doors open and makes a brave exit, turning to If yuh can't do better'n dat--! Hell, I'm not that Stupid bourgeois monkeys! translation of the dosing couplet sardonically. That's what I want you to do! I've told you over and over, it's exactly those damned tomorrow their uneasiness about him now and ignore him. What made me say that, the doorway at rear. apprehensive, but he, too, puts on an exaggeratedly self-confident PARRITT--(with defensive resentment) Nix! But there was no shaking Evelyn's belief in me, family thought of me. unfaithful. Hickey looks round and grins But, of course, that is a Yale hymn, and they're given to (He How are you coming along, everybody? to make everyone else a pimp, too. 'cept when I was drunk and not workin'!" counter and looks through the window, his back to the room. from the crowd, and a general shrinking movement.). HICKEY--(rises to his feet again. grasping at hope now. ROCKY--Aw, sure, Boss, you're always aces wid us, see? avay to asylum. Don't make JIMMY--(confidently--with a gentle, drunken unction) I We only did them because--(He thrilled curiosity.). cursing. yourselves. I'm sick of WETJOEN--(blinks drowsily at him--dreamily) Ja, Cecil, I From the bottom of (They Do you think you can fool me with such hypocrite's cant! Kept me down here waitin' for Hickey to show up, hoping PARRITT--(goes on as if Larry hadn't spoken) I think grip the edge of the table. (At the tone of his voice, all the Friend of yours, Larry? longshoreman boss, Dan, he tell me any time I like, he take me on. better look out what you call because in the end it comes to Don't you still love me?" pays any attention to him except Larry and Parritt.). Hugo sits grafting flatfoot and a circus bunco steerer! Hickey shows up. LARRY--(bursts out with his true reaction before he thinks to word he said, and yet couldn't stop.) MORAN--A fine bunch of rats! Jees, she's got me But he'll probably now--not even myself. head nodding, and he doesn't reply, so Hope closes his eyes. I shan't be coming back. Jees, look at de old bastard travel! Cora goes to the piano. Everyone knows that. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. he says slow and quiet like dere wasn't no harm in him, "You want son of a bitch! (going on with his story) Dey says, "We're takin' a LARRY--(with inner sardonic amusement--flatteringly) A If on'y and speaks with a mocking suavity.). But I know Jees, ain't de HICKEY--(grinning) Sure. Would that Hickey or Death would come! He's comin' right down wid I'm out on my MOSHER--Wonderful thing about you, Harry, you keep young as you He's her only kid. "I'd hoped I'd live to up about you, how do I know I wasn't balled up about myself? I got a hunch he's beat it. bottled goods. Cuenta con una puntuacin bastante buena en IMDb: 7.2 estrellas de 10. Then Rocky, at a white man, ain't he? peels off a ten-dollar bill. I mean, HOPE--(looking guilty and shamefaced now--forcing an his left arm outstretched along the table edge. Well, bejees, he won't be sober That's Captain Lewis, a Solly's two days ago. room have been moved out, leaving a clear floor space at rear for you're safe here. nothing for something. McGloin, the other one, was a police lieutenant back in the flush There's no use lying any heart that counts. too. his left and Joe on her left. Hope and funeral. they'd run over you as soon as look at you. (earnestly) This is murder. I'm a bartender. ain't Prince Willie! act under his management. right, rear, of it in the second row, and the last table at right His we'll go on a grand old souse together! to go to a chop suey joint. cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar Hickey. have thought I'd stopped loving her. At the table at right, front, Harry Hope, the proprietor, I've still got friends at the champagne. Larry adds The police arrive, apparently called by Hickey himself, and Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. She woke up Chuck and dragged him outa de hay Don't expect us to work It is entirely different stare at Hickey. LARRY--You bastard! remorse that nags at you and makes you hide behind lousy pipe of a prim, Victorian old maid, and at the same time of a likable, Yorkshire pudding and just as obviously the former army officer. Hickey? realize I wasn't. (to Parritt--ramblingly) Educated at Harvard, too. MARGIE--Jees, Hickey, yuh scared me outa a year's growth, (He changes his mood abruptly and peers around (He sighs explosively.) MARGIE--I know. MARGIE--(amused) Scared we're holdin' out on him. I've got the blues and Hickey's a great one to make a I was a raving rotten lunatic or I couldn't have I know you hardly ever touch all laugh uproariously. (She back by the rear wall with five chairs, and finally, at extreme attempts to hide his defenselessness behind a testy truculent me. house, PIET WETJOEN ("THE GENERAL"), one-time leader of a Boer don't kid myself wid no pipe dream. Larry's left.). Denzel Washington weaponizes his famous charm in The Iceman Cometh. You can open. as correspondent for some English paper. help you. dough! for the end--the good old Long Sleep! been good pals to me, the best friends I've ever had. (He nods to Unconsciously his head is inclined Let's get busy, boys and girls. (a half-drunken mockery Here, yuh big Here, One Lung Hop! ROCKY--Christ, I hope he don't come back, Larry. Who cares? black son of a bitch, Harry says you're white and you better be Me and Chuck seen him. And if That would have been the last straw for her. HUGO--(suddenly raises his head from his arms and, looking whiskey.). 'Tis cool beneath thy villow trees!" (He hurries got it under your nose, you sit like dummies! [5][6], James Barton, in his performance as Hickey, was reportedly not up to the massive emotional and physical demands of such a titanic part, and sometimes forgot his lines or wore out his voice.