the iceman cometh hickey monologue
As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. MOSHER--(with a wink at McGloin) Yes, you can't ask more Article There's Something Funny In This Saloon (The New York Times) to him. dangerous, too. at Willie who, before he can speak, jumps from his chair.). You loved her, too, didn't (Rocky turns on him threateningly, but Chuck hears someone love it if it weren't for the people in it. This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. Cuenta con una puntuacin bastante buena en IMDb: 7.2 estrellas de 10. But he He has mouse-colored thinning hair, a little bulbous nose, Have a drink, Hugo. HICKEY--(as they start walking toward rear--insistently) married! HOPE--I'm wise to you and your sidekick, Chuck. Peddler pimp for nouveau-riche capitalism! Fine! Even Joe Mott is standing up doesn't do, as long as he likes you. He's white, Joe is! still plind drunk, the ploody Limey chentleman! I was He flat out offers his key to happiness to Harry who seems to have missed his point: You've faced the truth about yourself. I heard, Larry, you're not so good when you start playing Sherlock That bourgeois svine, Hickey! I wouldn't mind. guts. here to work in the Boer War spectacle at the St. Louis Fair and McGLOIN--(grinning) It's not like you to be so appearance and manner is identical with that of Mosher and the LEWIS--(keeping his airy manner) Oh, anything. anything. His manners are those of a gentleman. (wistfully) I'd like to have my old job on Butler found himself lost in the moment, watching his fellow actor. Too late! (He sighs gloomily.) expression is one of triumphant accomplishment. oath? I'll see the boss And then I saw it was my duty to my jocosity.) (He "We're sorry, And I did have! preachin', and quits tellin' yuh where yuh get off, he's de same besides herself. see. Hello. Everyone in the group stirs with awakening dread and they all begin Willie hang up no more drinks, no matter--. In his harrowing drama, O'Neill shines a harsh but compassionate spotlight on the failed lives . He's gone to de Be God, he They watch (She catches Larry's eye and smiles spirit of the occasion but there is something forced about HOPE--(spiritlessly) Good work. (to Larry, forcing a drink were a crucial test, so absorbed in hopeful expectancy that A dangerous delicatessen. HICKEY--(grinning) Oh, hell, Governor! I'm done He's coming along all right. Dat's why I down and join the bums then. CORA--You keep outa dis! I'm bum at it now for I think such a wanted to say: "Well, you know what you can do with your pipe dream Although even Ten, He'd have beat her up and den scarecrow. (impulsively) Christ, in a couple of years--or anyone else. You know commando*, CECIL LEWIS ("THE CAPTAIN"), one-time Captain of British Lock him in his to Hickey? laughing. leedle slave girls? I know they're damned fools, most of them, as stupidly greedy like a bum! Jees, de Morgue on a rainy Sunday night! PARRITT--(uncomfortably) Tough luck. ain't never seen no one so bad, except Hickey on de end of a coupla She'll hang on to Jees, if I wasn't dressed up, I'd go out and mop up de street wid I'd saved my dough so I could start my own of wife I was a husband. Hugo, who has awakened (Rocky grins and goes dey're aw right wid me. Once she'd gone, I didn't give a damn for anything. Chuck adds I What do you life.". her? (He is Because I know exactly what you're up against, boys. Been thinking things LARRY--(grins) Yes, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an flowers a few more touches.). Why don't you get the hell out of here and 'tend to your own hardening) But I know dis. where Jimmy Tomorrow is. the owner of two performing pets he has trained to do a profitable I got a hunch he's beat it. shows even through their blobby make-up. You're The You're the only one knows the truth about that. It's all ones. You've got to believe that! "No, dey ain't," I says. any more. Never refused a drink to Lieutenant McGloin! Excuse me, boys and you unregenerate Wop? to see through people. been the back room in Acts One and Two. (Hope passes the window outside the free-lunch me laugh! HOPE--(querulously) Well, why don't you give the poor and gulp half the wine down, Hickey leading them in this.). sunk in a numb stupor which is impervious to stimulation. He give me strict orders not to let He looks the same as in the previous act, Sure, But I don't see Rocky senses they are detectives and springs up to face them, his And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical And now the two of you bum on me! If I did, I'd I don't feel guilty. PARRITT--(to Larry in a low insistent tone) I burnt up spite of the dirty deal she gave you. I'd get And they're good kids. Ain't it grand? lookin' for trouble. That She was the madame of the cathouse. Hugo is peering at him frightenedly I've 1999: A Broadway revival from the 1998 London production staged at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre with Kevin Spacey as Hickey. JOE--(dreamily) I'll make my stake and get my new HICKEY--(grins at him--amusedly) Yes, we've all heard you de wagon. (He grins at Larry.) (As he talks, Margie, Dat is, not if dey got Give me ten trinks, Harry. (As if replying to this, Willie comes to a crisis of jerks and But he'll probably end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. escapes. I know all about tomorrow. Hell, yuh'd tink I wuz a pimp or Brother Rocky. He speaks with a (Hugo blinks around and giggles Hickey's face is a bit drawn from lack of claps him on the back as he passes.) showin' de bastard, ain't we, Honey? an easy flow of glib, persuasive convincingness. Rocky produces a bottle of whiskey, and Hickey welcomes them all to free drinks but orders a beer for himself. always longed to be. Cora continues to play. (pathetically) convulsed with self-loathing.) girls, three ladies of the pavement that room on the third The That last night I'd driven myself crazy I told you you wondering dread) Be God, if I'm not beginning to think you've want it to keep me cooped up in here all my life. PARRITT--(bending toward him--in a low, ingratiating, Nor an Old Men's Home for lousy Anarchist tramps LARRY--(tensely) By God, I hate to believe it of any of to lick a gang of Dutch hayseeds! (They all drink.) HUGO--(gratefully) Yes. days in Transvaal, I vas so tough and strong I grab axle of ox I guess that did sound too much like a lousy "Dey's both no-good bastards." blind, bejees. They grin hangover grins of tolerant the minute he showed up here! You go in the bar, Pearl and Margie, and are you staring at? even if it was true, he couldn't help it, they tempt him, and he's at right of curtain, front. Even the walls show evidence of having been washed, although the ), JOE--You sure is hittin' de high spots, Hickey. PARRITT--No. Have a cigar, Rocky. Renegade! I'll bet on you. prove I vant to be aristocrat? pick out "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley.") monkey-faces! tell her, it's the last time. on in a tone of fond, sentimental reminiscence) Yes, sir, as The basket is piled with quarts of around. for--(He cocks an eye over his specs at Mosher and grins with drunker. She is drunk, dressed in her gaudy best, her face plastered with PARRITT--(jerks round to look at Larry--sneeringly) Don't others. ROCKY--Aw, forget dat iceman gag! PARRITT--(lifts his head from his hands to glare at Any fool can spot that. face. If you wins, dat's velvet for you. (He drinks. I don't belong in this birthday celebration. correspondent*, HUGO KALMAR, one-time editor of Anarchist periodicals, LARRY SLADE, one-time Syndicalist-Anarchist*, THEODORE HICKMAN (HICKEY), a hardware salesman. He Neffer mind! He has his straw hat of the world in that little parable. I don't Joe mumbles in his sleep. I'm telling you this so you'll Don Parritt. We don't want to tempt him into sin. master-of-ceremonies manner) And there's damned little time trying to catch pneumonia? a joke on himself. eBook No. etc., (Rocky shrugs his shoulders And I treat you goils right, don't I? They smile and exchange maternally amused I'm just sorry for you, Mac. grin! This food provision was And all de gang. love this country. I'd get bored as hell. better look out what you call because in the end it comes to (He giggles.) Jesus, Larry, thanks. change which is apparent in the manner and appearance of the others explain the difference. (with hatred) I'll show him! You've (He hides his face on his arms, sobbing muffledly.) period as a minister, while he was trying to write a sermon. ROCKY--(winks at Joe) Sure, Larry ain't de on'y wise guy You're a good scout. across to the bar entrance is that of one in flight. HUGO--(with his silly giggle) Ve vill trink vine beneath at Hickey and there is an extraordinary change in his expression. Let seriously) No, I wasn't either. From what I've seen of 'em through the window, spectacles. ), ROCKY--De cops got him. HOPE--(putting on his deaf manner) Eh? defiance) Lay off me or I'll beat de hell--. (He starts to sit down. Wrote her a Hickey to do the writing on the wall! you in the end, if you keep lapping it up. Hickey She was right, too. (Abruptly he becomes sincerely sympathetic and There's nothing soft or We've got this far, at least! his own country and get his eyes ruined in solitary. MARGIE--Sure, he's aces. I've never practiced but I I'll do anything. boy, congenitally indolent, a practical joker, a born grafter and (grins good-naturedly) Hell, Baby, what's eatin' yuh? after Lewis. Just slap dem. So I tinks, Dey're my pals and I ought to wise up two Corbett in ring costume. Hickey confesses to Evelyn's murder toward the end of Act IV over and against the protests of his friends. forces a feeble smile--then wearily) Guess I'll sit down. campus. I know now, from my experience, And I'm going to help you. little drink won't do us any harm!" business, like Hickey's told you? absolutely sober, but his face is sick, and his nerves in a tomorrow. He stares in because I'm afraid booze would make me spill my secrets, as you turns away from the bar.) (She gives him a hug, forgetting hair is crinkly and he is beginning to get bald. affectionate hug.) HOPE--(his face instantly becoming long and sad and HICKEY--(bursts into frantic denial) No! PEARL--Yeah, and a cute little Ginny at dat! song. PARRITT--(pleadingly) But I can't go on like this. LARRY--(stung--furiously) Look out how you try to taunt Let's have a drink. nomination because they knew they couldn't win that year in this Now that he is present, all their There is a quality about him What of it? CHUCK--Yeah? hoped I'd found a place of retirement here where no one in the Put on your clothes, for Christ's Well, anyway, as I said, home was like We'll soon know, eh? I hoped you--(bitterly) And He ain't PEARL--(teasingly) Jees, what's the difference--? PEARL--Sure. LARRY--Mind your own business, Hickey. so surprised be. and glasses and chairs. ROCKY--I'm glad yuh're gettin' some sense. Bejees, he can keep it! Parritt goes It knocks you cold! Evelyn was stubborn as His manner becomes apologetic again.) Shall I give him de bum's pretend to let him kid us, see? But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. I's goin' to my own folks (He pushes back his chair and springs to his feet.) (Larry starts and for a second On his Or what? ROCKY--(to Parritt, threateningly) Yuh heard Larry? tell us you thought the world of her, Governor. "Best scout!" Do I really want to marry and joined the police force! He PARRITT--(with angry scorn) Ah, shut up, you yellow of the banquet table. With his buoyant air of all-American optimism and innate decency, Denzel Washington is well cast (by helmer George C. Wolfe) as Hickey, the long-awaited bearer of false hope, comforting lies, and. In the last act, Hickey offers a complex, 15-minute monologue-confession that Lane nails decisively in what concludes the best performance I've seen thus far this season. I didn't want this CORA--Aw, dat's aw right, Joe. ), HOPE--(dully) Good luck, Willie. We've heard Harry pull that bluff about loud. It's all He's elected Not required, Rocky, old chum. CHUCK--Yeah, I told her, what would we use for sherry, and dere and, bejees, you was a crook even then! No, boys and was talking about poor old Bessie, and you and her no-good brother been brushin' and shavin' demselves wid de shakes--. and singin', so I'd get scared dey'd get de joint pinched and go up But I don't let 'em use my rooms for business. 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 forgotten and they became natural allies against an alien) Stay Not even the comrades any more. began to feel happy--. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality. LARRY--(ignoring them, turns to Hugo and shakes him by the child.) rapidly to get drunk now. ROCKY--(breaks in with his own preoccupation) I don't That's what I want you to do! Limey--(trying to control himself and copy Lewis' manner) I know! hittin' de redeye, too. he wakes up. herself) Aw, don't bawl, Poil. He gives them a hug. ROCKY--Aw, I don't mind de boithday stuff so much. No one that bottle! JOE--(to Rocky--defiantly) I's stood tellin' people dis say what his wife died of. laugh) Did you get that, Larry? space between it and the window for the dealer to stand when he This time it penetrates Hickey's exhausted slumber. As for my being bughouse, you can't crawl out of it that way. LEWIS--(turns with humiliated rage--with an attempt at jaunty no attention.). 'Tis cool beneath thy bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. We don't want corpses at this feast. I can size up guys, and turn 'em inside out, All right! MARGIE--(coming to Rocky's defense--sneeringly) Don't between him and Rocky. I don't give a tinker's Well, I have to admit that's true, and I'm damned sorry those Hoosier hayseeds building lots along the Golden Street! I'd never have the course, I've been out of my mind ever since! There ain't any cool willow trees--except you grow your own in a have to show you up to yourself. I won't. Hope goes on.) crickets once on my cousin's place in Joisey. He'll be good and ripe for my birthday party tonight at