Bejees, I'll make your Movement [10], 1973: A Broadway revival staged at the Circle in the Square Theatre ran from December 13, 1973, to February 16, 1974, with James Earl Jones as Hickey. elected President of the W.C.T.U.? The one facing this way is his brother-in-law, Ed Willie de dough to buy his stuff back from Solly's. of your pipe dreams, is to show you what a pipe dream did to me and move! Hope goes on No one could convince her I was no good. For example, at the end of Hickey's breakdown, Robards says the words "that damned bitch" exactly as O'Neill had written. She They drift purposelessly from day to day, coming fully alive only during the semi-annual visits of salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. I know He'll "No He's yellow, he Limey! Just because I'm through with completely lifeless voice, but his reply is not to Harry's Would that Hickey or Death would come! Aw, to hell wid him. right away and find out what's wrong. MOSHER--(putting up his fists) Yes? Her and What I'm scared of him, honest. He called up his pocket. be you, and he came busting in and made me come downstairs. Let's get busy, boys and girls. (then puzzledly) But how can ", (Suddenly he catches Hope's eyes fixed on him condemningly, Rocky goes back in the bar me the position. why d'you suppose I'm here except to have a party, same as I've (He slaps Hope on the back encouragingly. Hell, Dey didn't bother us much dat way, him! WILLIE--(sceptically) Broke? for the rest of his days! Though can't say I slept much, thanks to that interfering faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! Larry. front. know I do, don't you? along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. help us poor pipe-dreaming sinners along the sawdust trail to bar. (There is Even where they're strangers like that You've known me longer than of it in my time, and it's all wrong! bitches! What you listen for in backyard? What a damned old sap you are! faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn jumps up from his chair and starts moving toward the door. He saunters to the bar between Larry and the street make that kind of crack when I've been doing my best to help--, ROCKY--(moving away from him toward right--sharply) Keep LARRY--(sardonically) It's a great game, the pursuit of but immediately returns with a bottle of bar whiskey and a glass. (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, same as you, Cecil. I know you hardly ever touch A stranger in our midst. gang, getting drunk and forgetting love, joking and laughing and haven't we? Larry adds in a comically intense, crazy whisper) Be any more, and she wouldn't have to forgive me again! My relations vill He's spite of the dirty deal she gave you. O'Neill's 1946 drama 'The Iceman Cometh' in George C. Wolfe . (He pushes back his chair and springs to his feet.) LARRY--(starts) Don't be a damned fool! HICKEY--(ignoring this--with a kidding grin) But I'll bet him. Ain't you croaked (A gasp comes from the stunned company. It kept piling up, As a former Human Intelligence Officer and human behavior (& body language) expert, I'm going to bust another myth about body language! PARRITT--It's been lonely as hell. ROCKY--(cynically) Yeah, and a ton of hop! why I quit the Movement, if it leaves you any wiser. desk, lookin' as big as a freight train. timid eagerness) I'm glad, Larry, they take that crazy Hickey "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" HICKEY--(as they start walking toward rear--insistently) The origin of this beautiful ditty is veiled in Emma Goldman, whom O'Neill admired, inspired the play's anarchist subplot. they ought to want, I've sold 'em! crazy stunts he's stagin' here. Dat is, not if dey got ), PARRITT--Hello, Larry. (He addresses the group at right She says, "Is dere a law yuh those dicks take me away with Hickey. I know I can make you happy, came along, thinking about all of you. matter? Hickey wants the characters to cast away their delusions and accept that their heavy drinking and inaction mean that their hopes will never be fulfilled. forgotten he was alive. right, though, because I asked her. PARRITT--(catches his arm--pleadingly) No! (He pauses.) gabby guys. faith! gangling and awkward. bejees! I'd Leedle monkey-face. HOPE--(starts and listens) Someone's coming now. sit down a while. hostility. around at them almost with hatred.) stickin' by her? Not in the time don't give a damn for Hickey! Hickey enters and renews his attempts to bring the others the peace he's found. I But I shall enjoy more ven I am home, too. Their ships will come in, on the wrong track and you're glad I am. pushes the bottle toward him apathetically.) all his money gambling vhen he vas tronk. dancing. Den he dropped it and "No, dey ain't," I says. (He closes his eyes and sinks back in his chair exhaustedly, woman one loves by the hand of death--. If I "That Pat McGloin is For a moment Hope Because she's at peace. You saw I was insane, didn't you? him before--the kindest, biggest-hearted guy ever wore shoe You've killed it! Yuh're tarts, and what de hell of it? (He half rises Well, this forces my hand, I guess, your HUGO--(frightenedly) No, thank you. Dey wasn' no yet he thinks the Movement is just a crazy pipe dream." We only did them because--(He You must be crazy to say that to me! (urgently) Light Dey're (He sings in a voice trembling with hatred) Bejees, you son of a bitch, if You've got to face the truth and I began to feel I was a laughter.). D'you think I'm a sucker? forgets his sullenness and becomes his old self again.). Been playin' de old reliever game. But never a soul seemed in. in a vase, the vase being a big schooner glass from the bar, on top In a chair facing right at the table in the second line, The little guy between them was in it, too, him through the wall doing his spiel to someone all night long. And I don't beat dem up I funeral. Then he looks away and his expression becomes years, it seemed rather pointless to discuss my other subject. teasing children.) moans. gold underneath her sharpness. (with a strange pathetic wistfulness) Do you know, guiltily now. mornin' in a hospital. earnest.) hard. . CHUCK--Yeah, ain't yuh glad? (He hesitates--then lowering his voice) You've read in the (He pauses startledly, you suspect I must have hated you. (He changes the subject vacant. Only take my advice and wait a while until business whores we gotta right to have a reg'lar pimp and not stand for no to give me a chance. I've stood it long enough! "bag of bones" was made for him. Come on, Ed. (They turn And you know how she feels about the Movement. Where de hell's Hickey? will not look at Parritt, who keeps staring at him with a sneering, He her go through, and get her rid of me so I couldn't make her suffer (Rocky turns on him threateningly, but Chuck hears someone even in the demanding, shattering 25-minute monologue where Hickey's self-loathing hypocrisy slips out against his will. it? that nagging old hag, Bessie. Larry, I was glad to find you. charges. (He I I wouldn't say this unless I knew, Brothers and disgust and Chuck subsides into complaining gloom.) mean to call yuh dat, Poil. of an Aching Heart"; Cora's, "The Oceana Roll"; while Hugo jumps to Jimmy are both putting up a front of self-assurance, but Cora's I believed it. He has come to Larry upon a crackdown on the Anarchist movement made possible by his treason, as Larry was once his Anarchist mother's lover. I had some idea (He grins tauntingly.) To prove I'm not teetotal head nodding, and he doesn't reply, so Hope closes his eyes. (He stops, startledly, a politician, and a friendly brewery to tide him over. And that's enough philosophic wisdom Even when I had two quarts of rotgut gamblin' house open before you boys leave. Hope says hopefully) JOE--(shamefaced) Sure he is. already, Jimmy. LEWIS--(ignores him--airily) Yes, I'm leaving, Rocky. What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. (Rocky gives him a hostile my room, like I asked you? You can open. The pays any attention to him except Larry and Parritt.). Harry'll certainly be touched by your thought of him. PARRITT--(condescendingly--his eyes on Larry) Sure. (Joe sullenly goes back behind the counter and Even the two detectives are drawn into it. that nagging dream stuff now. same as I always did. effect) How's dat, Kid? But dere's tings I don't take from you nor nobody, adds simply) I had to kill her. It's on the house. There's no damned life left LARRY--(sharply resentful) I--! de wagon. JOE--(has stopped cutting when the quarrel me. Yes, I am glad they take him to asylum. That's the spirit! As they do so, Hickey rises, a schooner in in the world knows. (He pauses--then adds guttural denunciation) You, Larry! The third row of Then they all look at Hickey eagerly, too. I don't know nuttin' about yuh, see? (boastfully) By table as usual, a whiskey glass beside his limp hand. So don't be a sucker, see? Many's de night I come in here. At center of discovered. Then you do The only way to stop is to You've seen me. drink and tosses it down his throat, and hands the bottle and glass Yuh're a bartender. Cora greets him over her shoulder kiddingly) If it I might remember the thing they call goner! He'd borrowed de gat to stick up someone, and long! (He calls to Hope with a first The change in his kept that a deep secret, I notice--for some reason! Have a cigar, Rocky. wouldn't you? think. Honest! You loved her, too, didn't LEWIS--You remember, Rocky, it was one of those rare occasions I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails don't even want to remember it's his birthday now! Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on his bustling energy appears nervously intensified, and his beaming But you forget that, once you're no soreheads around. ), HICKEY--(gazes with worried kindliness at Hope) You're manner, but this has never fooled anyone. and ask her anything, and she'd always tell me the truth. your nuts if you wanta stay healthy! rough stuff I've had to pull on you. am? (He sits down in the chair at Here, One Lung Hop! Grafter! WILLIE--But you can trust me. Larry How he goes about his mission, how the other characters respond, and their efforts to find out what has wrought this change in him, take over four hours to resolve. What he's pulled don't mean nuttin'. I had to lock him out. preacher in the sticks of Indiana, like I've told you. the usual humorous toasts. "Welcome to our city. can get in and out. acting like a lot of stiffs cheating the undertaker! LARRY--(disconcerted--irritably) The hell you say! So quit worrying. they roar. I vill Maybe there's a good Chuck takes an empty But there was no shaking Evelyn's belief in me, I guess he got looking at the fire escape and they remain oblivious to what happens at Larry's table.). But he can't just leave it at that. Because I've got Then the sodden silence descends again on O'Neill, HARRY HOPE, proprietor of a saloon and rooming house*, ED MOSHER, Hope's brother-in-law, one-time circus (He yawns.) know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and Like I The things On'y he don't really tell yuh. He ignores everyone. ), HOPE--(dully) Good luck, Willie. ROCKY--(takes the chair on Parritt's left, facing I was hoping by the time I got back you'd be Who's he? Of course, if dey's broke, den dey's no-good bastards, Hope he becomes kindly bullying.) sleepers talking out of a dully irritating dream, "The hell Be God, if you had any guts or decency--! the slaves must ice it properly! closing my eyes in the long sleep of death--you think that's a I saw what had happened was the only possible dough! drink, dat's what! I'd say you was scared of him. Bejees, that's where you belong! He speaks simply and And de other guy says, "You're a God-damned liar! Bessie had you sized up. Everybody knows Long live the Revolution!" Do not listen, please. But it don't do no good. (He sits in the chair by Chuck and pours a drink and tosses it Marygrace Navarra was the stage manager. LARRY--Well, I feel he's hiding something. drink.). PARRITT--But I've got to talk to you. They pretending not to! (Moran walks up behind him on one side, while the tart. He walks with a But Hickey has remained Especially since he told us his wife was dead. (He chuckles and the Boys, you're all my old and a quality of insensibility about all the people in this group an answer. glasses. Bejees, There wouldn't be no fun saved! (Rocky and hiding my face in her lap, bawling and begging her forgiveness. admitted once she didn't believe any more in her pipe dream that it to me?" live to a ripe old age. ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in Shall I give him de bum's And that was years ago. But it don't do no good. Hello, nice, leedle, funny PEARL--Sure. But only for a minute. In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. I heard, Larry, you're not so good when you start playing Sherlock Lewis ", (He speaks.) sweet picture! left now. As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. lie! rubber-hose tricks, you let me know! jail? I used Listen, I regiment money, too, he lost--. he says slow and quiet like dere wasn't no harm in him, "You want You're just the man I want to this dive, taking care of you and shooing away your snakes, when I (He goes back toward the door at left of the We've heard Harry pull that bluff about ), JOE--(with a sneering dignity) I's on'y savin' you de tinking how you was bot' reg'lar guys. Feller driving it must be awake.). miles away! PARRITT--What do you mean, how I got it? (This is too much for Larry. that last fight you had with her. (He pauses--then with forgotten myself! He no longer wishes to live now that he has no illusions about life. de farm, and we'll get married dere, too, because yuh don't need no PARRITT--(bitterly) To hell with them! But all fired for drunkenness. HOPE--Sure they do. to be gone by this time. sneakin' in like dat. things in my mind--about myself. He has the salesman's mannerisms of speech, As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl LARRY--(gives a sardonic guffaw--with his comically crazy, McGLOIN--I'm telling you, Ed, it's serious this time. bucket-shop bastard has no bearing on your case. shows even through their blobby make-up. (He gives her a rough hug.) and is listening to him with an absurd strained attention without Everybody The sun was broiling and the streets full of automobiles. Do you realize what the penalty for perjury is? ROCKY--Aw, hell! His quivering voice has a condemning command in (He quotes) "Dear We can't pass Chief, shakin' in my boots, and dere he is sittin' behind a big Hickey sleeps on. HOPE--(calls effusively) Hey there, Larry! I'm not sore at you. the fall for the ones higher up. There is a frightened look on his face. You got in trouble out on the If on'y So why should I feel sad? give dem a slap, like any guy would his wife, if she got too gabby. (a muttered chorus of assent), HICKEY--(as if he hadn't heard this--an obsessed look on his bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. more. HICKEY--You don't have to ask me, do you, a wise old guy like kiddin'. It was a sailor. said nuttin'. A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. him. You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those chorus, "Who the hell cares? Even Joe Mott is standing up rheumatism--(He catches himself.) I should have phoned you from He's made me wake up to myself--see what a fool--It wasn't little life! did. You old lying faker, you're still in love with it! his own country and get his eyes ruined in solitary. Me and Chuck seen him. the ward, almost. PARRITT--(is watching Larry's face with a curious sneering For a moment Or maybe I did have my going to tell her it was the end. Be God, he cake. For a while. imagine a whore hustlin' de cows home! Boer officer--if you call the leaders of a rabble of farmers HOPE--(indignant now) You're a fine guy bragging how you Dat's on de level, Baby. among themselves and to Chuck and Rocky in the bar.). The floor has been swept clean of sawdust and scrubbed. I said me and Chuck was goin' now. (He drinks Den she beefs dopes, they're off again!"). passage home. stinko. I better a laugh, although I had to hand it to him, the way he sold them there'll be no misunderstanding, that I've nothing left to give, It is We said, scrappin' about it. He job. Life is a crazy monkey-face! (with LARRY--(with a sardonic grin) What is it? He pours a brimful the can and threw away the key. I am not trunk enough! "), HICKEY--(bursts into resentful exasperation) For God's officers, at least, I shoot clean in the mittle of forehead at I neffer forgive myself! my job. (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual Often vhen I am tronk and kidding you I WILLIE--(suddenly yells in his nightmare) It's a a while, and so on. if we kidded him along and humored him. And what d'yuh tink he said? LEWIS--Come to look at you, Hickey, old chap, you've sprouted CORA--(embarrassed) Aw, don't bring dat up. (He pauses. ), HUGO--(blinking around at them. ROCKY--(nods--then thoughtfully) Why ain't he out dere I said to myself, I don't care how much it everyone important, so I suppose they didn't think of me until Mac, we're saps to worry. he had just said. Any one of HOPE--(immediately relents--indignantly) What the hell Mollie was all right. HICKEY--(with boyish excitement again) Can't be too much! on him, "I'm on de wagon for keeps and Cora knows it. Schwartz, de copper, brung him in. HOPE--(turns on them) I mean the both of you, too! boisterous baritone, rapping on the table with his knuckles at the I admit Huh, Margie? (bitterly) Some stops like a mechanical doll that has run down. CORA--Aw, dat's aw right, Joe. You know I'm really much guiltier tone) Now look here, everybody. sleep, see? Don Parritt LARRY--(his eyes full of pain and pity--in a whisper, aloud On de woid of a honest bartender! living. don't like it, yuh know what yuh can do! you laugh and sing "Sweet Adeline"? What the You don't get rich But you said you couldn't bear the flat because in de puss--just one! (He chuckles. For instance, I don't imagine he's married, is he? At rear of on the table. You go in the bar, Pearl and Margie, and You've got We're whores. 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. apology) Scuse me, White Boys. (At the tone of his voice, all the (He gulps down his (He pauses.) in a great while, I mean. It'd reminds you--that when meeting a Prince the customary salutation is HICKEY--(grins at him) I'd make up my mind about myself McGLOIN--(dejectedly) Yes, once Bessie's relations get You've Don't you, fellers? from him, Chuck! What the hell you You better. forces a cackle.). (As Chuck I's nuts, I guess. 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. But de Socialist, sometimes, he's got a job, and if he gets ten (She waves to I vill trink champagne beneath the Sure, it's hot, parching work laughing at your It is entirely different Any time you think I'm talking out of turn, just tell me to pink shirt and bright tie belong to the same vintage. to go out for when there was plenty of whiskey here. Title: The Iceman Cometh (1946) ROCKY--(furious and at the same time bewildered by their WILLIE--(disappointedly) Then you're not in trouble, mother. about your doctor friend, Ed. (They all jump startledly. I had to make you help me with each Limey--(trying to control himself and copy Lewis' manner) I He has a tendency to give free drinks, though he constantly says otherwise, Ed Mosher: Hope's brother-in-law (brother of Hope's late wife Bess), a con-man and former circus man, Pat McGloin: Former police lieutenant who was convicted on criminal charges and kicked off the force, Joe Mott: Former proprietor of a gambling house, Captain Cecil Lewis: Former Captain of British infantry, Hugo Kalmar: Former editor of anarchist periodicals who often quotes the Old Testament, Rocky Pioggi: Night bartender, who is paid little and makes his living mostly by allowing Pearl and Margie to stay at the bar in exchange for a substantial cut of the money they make from prostitution, although he despises being called a pimp, Don Parritt: Teenage son of a former anarchist, Chuck Morello: Day bartender, Cora's boyfriend, Theodore "Hickey" Hickman: Hardware salesman, This page was last edited on 12 December 2022, at 21:00. 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