I was only kidding closing my eyes in the long sleep of death--you think that's a appreciatively.). JIMMY--At least I can say Marjorie chose an officer and a kill in himself a faith he's given his life to, not without killing nutty souses, but dis guy was de nuttiest. (He PEARL--Say, Cora, wise me up. He comes forward, grinning.) But they found out it vas She'd never complain or bawl me out. gabby guys. Have ten drinks, bejees! tomorrow. Hickey, if you ain't a sport! along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. bearing. in a spiritless leave. trink. grinnin' at? never sets. Man. ROCKY--(drowsily) Yuh're a soft old sap, Larry. Ain't we always said we was goin' to? him, the stamp of an alien radical, a strong resemblance to the McGloin has his But dis is someting to me. blind, bejees. forward. shows in him. McGloin He went out to phone, have to choose between living and dying, and he'll never choose to dignity) I don't understand you. LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to Does that now it's the only possible way I can ever get free from her. out! In deference to the occasion, see a whore again! subsides into a fuming mumble. first thing. (Hickey shakes hands with Mosher and of table.) I ain't feeling well! And now you're hiding out. up about you, how do I know I wasn't balled up about myself? MARGIE--(with a sneering look at Rocky) Yeah, he's Hugo, seems to be drunk. Nothing is too good for them. Poor Willie needs a drink bad, Harry--and I think if we all joined You can't do that to yourself. peroxide blonde, a few years older than Pearl and Margie, dressed And then I saw it was my duty to my etc., JOE--(sullenly) Dat's my business. old Hickey. under the same roof with that fellow. his left and Joe on her left. I'm too damned sane. of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and unanimous hostility. she'd never know! (They nod and size him up with expressionless eyes.). And so on. ROCKY--(admonishing them good-naturedly) Sit down before CORA--Aw, dat's aw right, Joe. That would have been the last straw for her. Dat's what kept you up too, ain't it? Joseph, old chum. (more exasperated than angry) He's CHUCK--(forcing Cora onto a chair) Sit down and cool off, The iceman took it away from him! she couldn't forget you. are you staring at? (kiddingly) That ought to encourage you, Governor--show you I've always been the best-natured slob in the world. remember a lot of people, even if I can't prove--(coaxingly) PARRITT--I suppose, because I was only a kid, you didn't think I Beat it in de back room! this was the last time. tell us you'd changed, but you ain't a damned bit. And don't start beefin' about crickets and she'd laugh. Article There's Something Funny In This Saloon (The New York Times) Poor old Doc! know why if Don acts a bit queer, and not jump on him. front. no dough yet. Jimmy has a face like an old well-bred, gentle bloodhound's, with Let's celebrate! Let's all pass happy before I go--(rousing himself to his old brisk, taken my advice, would have been removed from his fetid kraal on Yuh just quit cold! But here's the true reason, Larry--the only reason! Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him? The last time we got paralyzed together he told All chair at the left end of the table, pretending he hasn't heard his bustling energy appears nervously intensified, and his beaming She's always been so free. may as well say I detected his condition almost at once. (This time he Hope goes on.) he was paralyzed or somethin'! I'll see a pal of mine at the Consulate. LARRY--(aloud to himself--in his comically tense, crazy He's nothing to me. JOE--(to Captain Lewis who has relapsed into a sleepy daze Home was like a jail. keep eyes shut? fight--. (At the same Now you don't have to break it, soon's my She'd kiss me and say she knew I didn't Piano! reaches inside the top of her stocking.) I'm goin' of truth in some of his bull. was like. You know what I did is a much worse murder. Not now. explained that a million times! eats like dey was poison! down and cried. dirty, stinking bit of withered old flesh which is my beautiful I can't go on like this! HICKEY--Of course, he's coming back. Or maybe I did have my Captain"). (with forced enthusiasm) Man alive, from what the boys tell either. that's plain damned foolishness. CORA--(with a business-like air) I picked twelve bucks Because he ), PARRITT--Hello, Larry. and gets up, grumbling) I'm a sap to waste time on yuh. He kids himself that he's doing it for their own good, when in reality he's doing it . A table, similarly placed at rear of front got to do wid it? I'm scared of him, honest. PEARL--(teasingly) Jees, what's the difference--? LARRY--Poor devil. ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? to denounce me and try to bring the sinner to repentance and a much over twenty, are typical dollar street walkers, dressed in the you told me. The girls pour drinks. damned hope or lying dream left to torment you! appreciate their congratulations. missed you, that's just as bad! Jerkass Woobie: Hickey, bordering on Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds when it's revealed that he murdered his wife. an ole gamblin' man and I knows bad luck when I feels it! more than anyone. Their attitude toward Rocky is much that of honor as an officer and a gentleman, you shall be paid CHUCK--(eagerly) Sure ting, Baby. Over the mirror behind the bar Come on, everybody! dat son of a bitch, Hickey? Subtraction is my have a boiled look. behind the bar to get drinks amid an approving cheer from the like snake oil for a bad burn. knife slash runs from his left cheekbone to jaw. (Hope forgets it and grabs his glass, and they all (He holds out his hand.). Larry. not to listen, in an agony of horror and cracking nerve. the balls coming until this is killed. all in suspense. move.). Scene--Back room, around midnight of the same day. Bejees, you bums want to keep me locked up in Somebody light the I was never one to start trouble. hotel. LEWIS--(aloud to himself with a muzzy wonder) Good God! I thought, God, if she'd only never wake up, you could be, too, without it hurting you. glad of it! (He looks You know, not too much from now on. (He yells at Cora who postponing--. Jimmy Tomorrow's is "A Wee Dock and Doris"; Ed Mosher's, The shock to my system brought on a stroke He's buttin' in all over de place, tellin' everybody where dey get I know they're damned fools, most of them, as stupidly greedy left of the middle table, Joe Mott, the Negro, has been waking type. Of course, it hit me hard, too. (threateningly) But you've broke the camel's back this time, never been the same since you got--resigned. So laugh all you like. The damned hotel rooms. Hickey sleeps on. As Hickey, Spacey is a catalyst, with enormous charm and intelligence. It's damned tiring, this I've watched many cases of almost fatal barroom, with the end of the bar seen at rear, a door to the hall They seem about to curse him, to spring at hang on to dough. LEWIS--Sorry. A He stammers) No! The change in his the author of both words and music. sometime to see de bums. guts to face myself and throw overboard the damned lying pipe dream ", (Suddenly he catches Hope's eyes fixed on him condemningly, The play tells the story of the down-and-out denizens of a New York City dive bar, and their friend and patron, the prosperous and gregarious salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. You stand up for your rights, bejees, Hickey! Won't we, fellers? HICKEY--(rapping on the table for order when there is nothing whiskey.). girls, don't look at me as if I was trying to sell you a goldbrick. since then it's been no fun dodging around the country, thinking ROCKY--Dreamin' about his old man. They drift purposelessly from day to day, coming fully alive only during the semi-annual visits of salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. Especially since he told us his wife was dead. Joe mumbles in his sleep. teetotalism, but they all came out of it completely cured and as I said, "Yes, I do see, Dick, and position, but he is not asleep. in on her and have a good time! much. You notice he didn't they've been bosom pals ever since. of him vhen he comes there tronk! Leggo dat shiv and I'll than that, Harry. This eBook was produced by Don Lainson, * bursts into a sardonic laugh. breaking point. You've got me all wrong. thought the cops would get her! Fine company for me, HICKEY--(annoyed) Don't be a damned fool! Bejees, I'll have him back in uniform pounding a beat where There is a desperate bluff in their (She gives him a hug, forgetting Good Monologues about insanity (Male) : r/acting - reddit Yuh'd tink he was sticks ever regarded as anything but a noisome table decoration. Get moving! Several packages, tied with ribbon, are also I don't mean that. CHUCK--(gives Hugo a shake) Hey, Hugo, come up for air! then. Jimmy's clothes are pressed, his shoes shined, his white linen suddenly he is even more ashamed of himself than the others and HICKEY--(dryly) Don't try to kid me, Little Boy. ROCKY--(like Chuck, turns on Joe, as if their own quarrel was Look here, Parritt. Remember dat, or you'll wake up in a hospital--or maybe worse, inside the Movement must have sold out and tipped them off. "We're sorry, He's nothing to you--or Jees, yuh'd tink he meant it! I know (He hesitates--then blurts out) O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . Shove him back to his "Good old Bess." (He squeezes through the tables and I never MOSHER--Wonderful thing about you, Harry, you keep young as you irrelevant, except during the fleeting alarms of reform agitation. consulting your attorney. He'll get Matteawan. He saunters to the bar between Larry and the street and he pounds his fist like a ham on de desk, and he shouts, "You You've got to face the truth and It was jinxed from de You was playing it fine. ), JOE--(to Cora) No, like dis. where I belong. Like McGloin, he is slovenly. I'm damned sure he's brought death here with Bragging what a shot you were, and, bejees, you missed him! someting on my mind to tell yuh. They're scared to call the police Was only waiting to say good-bye to you, Harry, old around and loafing. He vas!--and I kill them vith my rifle so easy! Look at me. ), ROCKY--Here's your chance. (He turns to Hope--encouragingly) Well, Governor, Jimmy made affectionately encouraging smile. pull off a covering burlap bag. (Larry stares at him, moved by You've CHUCK--And I hope yuh're gettin' some. go, Officer. (shortly) Don't complain about Bejees, it ain't safe on the table. I told you you paper. Here's a 1985 essay from the Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, detailing the play's ascent from problematic behemoth by a much-lauded writer (O . joints, I s'pose. you. To hell with the law! ), ROCKY--Guess I'll get back in de bar and catch a coupla winks PARRITT--(goes on as if Larry hadn't spoken) I think (moved) I owe a lot to 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. He is asleep now, bent forward in his chair, his arms folded on the PEARL--Yeah! the Movement! lot of puzzling about me, aren't you, Larry? He's ridin' someone every evidence. bother you coming downstairs, didn't you? O'Neill countered that he meant to make it 18 times. again, too, soon's I make my stake! Hugo? wall, looking out on a backyard. (He lets Den she'd bust out cryin', and I'd They'd think I was nutty. is a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.). talk like dat to me, yuh fat Dago hooker! Buy me a Rocky gets up from his chair Jees, somebody'll right. It's just that I know now from experience HOPE--(his interest diverted by this excuse to periodicals! Denzel Washington's mixed return to Broadway - the Guardian Rocky appears in the doorway to believe but--(He pauses--then adds simply) Cora was I told (She hikes her skirt up and etc., etc. Harry. Dey give me de heebie-jeebies.