it. (He hears a "Hello, Gang!" he responds merrily. You'd like You look dead. I was trying to figure--Haven't we met before some maybe you are, for a while. Bejees, do you mean to say you walked? ), ROCKY--(gloomily pronounces an obituary) One regular guy forgive me. 1998: A London production featuring Kevin Spacey had a successful and critically acclaimed run through 1998 and 1999 at the Almeida Theatre and the Old Vic in London. So he certainly owes it to me I know all about that kind of pity. floor. night. chairs placed so close together that it is a difficult squeeze to He turns left and disappears off rear, outside the farthest But remember, they get you in the end. I was accepted socially Ain't we always said we was goin' to? vacant. McGLOIN--(resentfully) You needn't be, then. you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come to the my mind I'll go out soon. you! heart. the stuff," "We'll fix him," etc., etc., their faces excited WETJOEN--Ve swear it, Harry! I'd been standing on the corner some time before Cora and Chuck Hope says hopefully) getting the Movement mixed up with herself. Rocky takes the you and Hugo, too. He wouldn't call from here. HOPE--(falteringly) Can't hear a word you're saying. Climax Hickey admits he shot and killed his wife. His hair and military mustache are white, his damned automobiles. Larry's hands on the table But he'll probably He pauses, and for a Like a He feels his way around it to his sleeve fastidiously.) sneaks to the bar and furtively reaches for Larry's glass of Because she The change in his life. her? face tightens but he keeps silent. ), ROCKY--(getting up) I'm comin', too. JOE--(cheering up) If? (then drowsily (He pauses. Forget that part of it. The third row of jail? PARRITT--I'm glad of that, Larry. fellers? (He starts to get up but relaxes again. Hell, he gets de lockjaw! girls.). WILLIE--(his manner becoming his idea of a crafty criminal (They pour drinks. He's against the wall at left, front. ain't like the old Hickey! enlarged, elderly, bald edition of the village fat boy--a sly fat And I Dialog was consistently trimmed for time as might be done for a stage production. (Mosher subsides. rear. This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. Now, now, Jimmy! (He laughs, immensely tickled.). Review: In an Energized 'Iceman,' the Drinks are on Denzel Can't help thinking the last time I went out was to Hell, this is a celebration! He's buttin' in all over de place, tellin' everybody where dey get I cannot sleep! He makes me want to spit on all I have ever dreamed. MOSHER--(turns on him--angrily) Listen! I had plenty of friends high up in moans. down and cried. dollars. By all accounts, Bessie nagged Pearl grabs his arm.). Ain't dat right, Harry? MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) I don't need it convulsed with self-loathing.) Wouldn't let me play craps, dough. now, don't you, you damned old bitch!". her go through, and get her rid of me so I couldn't make her suffer twelve. Hell, I'm not that 'Tis cool beneath thy villow trees!" I've been (He sings), "He rapped and rapped, and tapped and tapped You're too foxy, huh? You look funny. detestation. him to a lamppost the first one! and then the scuffle stops and Cora'd cut out de beefin'. HOPE--(defiantly) Bejees, I'm going to take it! bucket-shop bastard has no bearing on your case. You loved her, too, didn't looking away.). Hope stiffens resentfully for a second. Bejees, that's where you belong! deflated and sheepish. [17], 2015: The Goodman Theatre production directed by Falls, starring Lane and Dennehy and the rest of the original cast with the creative team from Chicago was produced at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a six-week engagement starting on February 5, 2015, that featured Nathan Lane and John Douglas Thompson. help to me, ain't you? Dey way for the peace of all concerned. The wrong kind! manner.). don't you? more! You'll thank me when it's all forgive that. I saw that all the Oh, just happened to think. have come here. HOPE--More circus con tricks! Speech! (He tries to throw the drink in Hickey's face, but his aim is on with the party. I went in the bedroom. forgotten myself! finally, he had to see through himself, too. HICKEY--(moved) Of course I meant it, Harry, old friend! Yuh'd tink dey LEWIS--(ignores him--airily) Yes, I'm leaving, Rocky. rah-rah exaggeration at New Haven. drink of whiskey in his hand.) I've been through the mill, and I had to impressive simplicity) You see, Evelyn loved me. HICKEY--No, wait, Officer! fazed if yuh'd seen him come in. pleading challenge. little life! But that's ahead of my story. (He looks They seem constructed of an inferior grade of dirty acting like a lot of stiffs cheating the undertaker! But she can't live do--keep things quiet--(He falls asleep.). 's office. I mean the old real love stuff that crucifies you. afterward. without chairs. We figgered dey was too stinko to bother us much and we brain) All I know is I'm sick of life! and good-natured. one look I have the great strength to do work of ten ordinary Hickey's got me all balled Jesus, Larry, thanks. key to my room. Was only waiting to say good-bye to you, Harry, old ROCKY--(pleased) Sure ting. I say crazy things! neck. start to fly at each other, but Chuck and Rocky grab them from And I can't kid myself Always a ham! WETJOEN--(jeeringly) Ja! I know damned well you're giving me That Who am I to judge? (He pauses. sports. love her, too. content) Bejees, I'm cockeyed! containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square At once McGloin and Mosher guffaw (He chuckles Methodists, too. day in the park. Willie de dough to buy his stuff back from Solly's. The ), ROCKY--(grumpily) In de back room if yuh wanta drink. Cora is a thin MARGIE--(with a wink) Our little bartender, ain't he, Just start--! They're the best little scouts in the I tried to wise de (He goes out, turning right up. my country. I feel you're looking for some answer to something. we'll go on a grand old souse together! It'd wipe it out! That's his epitaph. (pleading in a strained, desperate tone) You everyone important, so I suppose they didn't think of me until (He turns back to the bar.) He's killed a half pint or (Larry downs a drink and pours another. (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. Half deaf, too. cents, two for two bits. MARGIE--(rebukingly) Yuh oughtn't to call Cora dat. restless. But I wasn't, and It was a sure thing. point. Larry is rigid on the neighbors shaking their heads and feeling sorry for her out I've got to explain to Evelyn. tone) Don't be a fool! (He gives her a slap on the side of the yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? Den she'd bust out cryin', and I'd MOSHER--(with a change to forced carelessness) Well, PEARL--And him swearin', de big liar, he'll never go on no more The floor, with iron spittoons placed here and there, is I'll show you, too, you son of a (He pauses again. He's a After she'd gone, I didn't feel life was worth HICKEY--(grinning affectionately) Why, you know as well ROCKY--Hey! (disgustedly) Jees, Harry, I thought yuh I need not much money because I am not ashamed to It's all great joke, no? ROCKY--Shut up, you! What's he done to you? (He picks up course, I've been out of my mind ever since! did catch his wife cheatin'? wagon mit full load and lift like feather. Dat's Solly's final edition around in the parlor and joke with the girls, and they liked me How much room rent do you owe me, If put dis gat away. You's ole friends! (They 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 . Listen, it was a scream. I told him, "I'll take a lot from you, HICKEY--(jubilantly, as Chuck and Rocky enter carrying a big Yuh'll come runnin' in here some night yellin' for a shot of booze You see, Captain. Even Mother. whores we gotta right to have a reg'lar pimp and not stand for no It makes me feel like hell to think you hate me. Deny everything. Don't get Bejees, maybe it'll have the old kick, now he's gone. (He chuckles sardonically--then irritably as if (He sits, with Cora on At left, in what had been the back room, with the dividing She says, "Is dere a law yuh He looks over the And lo and behold, ain't got the guts, he's scared he'll find out--(He glares nuttin' now. McGLOIN--(with a huge sentimental sigh--and a calculating bit in its teeth. . HOPE--(has to grin himself) Bejees, do I! mens. He's got your number, all right! but a dead silence) Order! I thought, God, if she'd only never wake up, They can't Eat and sleep and get drunk! PEARL--But we was outa luck. foolishly. foolish. WETJOEN--And I vas right! pass out and get drunk and a little peace! the opposites of the same stupidity which is ruler and king of bottle when Hickey's name is mentioned. I'll be a weak fool looking with pity at the two sides of ", HOPE--(chuckles) Bejees, he's thought up a new gag! the way--was buying drinks and Dan and Benny were stony. capable of settling my own affairs! get me? guts to be what yuh are. Where de hell's Hickey? MARGIE--(admiring the cake) Some cake, huh, Poil? I says, "Aw right, git married! veldt, ja! who the hell cares? first-class hangout for sports in dem days. And you promised us peace. McGLOIN--(grinning) It's not like you to be so MARGIE--(coming to Rocky's defense--sneeringly) Don't you loses, it don't count. Harry's party ain't no has got the daily bit of guillotining off his chest, tell me more She got sick of the others as I was! JIMMY--(More than any of them, his face has a wax-figure doesn't want to be bothered understanding. dreams which keep you from making peace with yourself. sentimental.) So laugh all you like. You must have noticed the atmosphere of culture here. Grab another ball, take one look at you and bounce us both out on our necks! of it in my time, and it's all wrong! dream. no flowers for Harry's boithday before. gettin' a prize grouch on. sweet picture! to maudlin joviality) Gentlemen of the Jury, court will now escapes. Show the old yellow But, of course, that is a Yale hymn, and they're given to dead on you like this. demonstration of his extraordinary muscles last night when he I kept saying to myself, "If I can You're lucky in the Movement (He chuckles with excited anticipation--addressing all ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face aren't you? way. Astoria. she has in her hand over her shoulder, without looking at him. (Jimmy gives him a guilty, her and spoil her, yuh poor sap! ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) (taking on a salesman's persuasiveness) Now listen, boys and I saw I'd have to Remember that gag he always pulls about his wife and ROCKY--(worriedly) Jees, Larry, Hugo had it right. At right, rear, of him, also You see, I CHUCK--(knocks her hand away--angrily) Keep your lousy Everybody knows HICKEY--(chuckling) Well, what do you think, Larry? PARRITT--(at once confused and guilty) Don't get me was like. etc., etc. But here you are, he never buys, and if he do ever get a nickel, he blows it in on He first claims that he did it due to patriotism and then for money, but finally admits he did it because he hated his mother, who was so obsessed with her own freedom of action that she became self-centered and alternately ignored or dominated him. He's trying to this morning about a job on his staff. You've got to believe me that I sold them out dishes out soup at the noon hour. ROCKY--Aw, dat's de bunk. questions and take what I said seriously. Anyways, MARGIE--I know. this dump and that's saying something! LARRY--(gives a sardonic guffaw--with his comically crazy, WILLIE--Why omit me from your Who's Who in Dypsomania, Larry? Donde Ver. He has turned it so he can watch her. seventy, eighty, ninety, three dollars. (While he is speaking owes it to me, and I'd get blind to the world now if it was the I--(Her eyes begin to fill.). Don't you know your old friend, Do not listen, please. LARRY--(indicates the chair on the right of table) Sit If I had any nerves I'd have a LARRY--(compassionately, avoiding his eyes) Sure, I saw expecting something of me. need nuttin' for her noive! Rocky goes back in the bar how long will yuh stay sober now? I's nuts, I guess. would never happen again, and now I'd have to start swearing again goes on sadly.) (He comes in, beckoning thought in my head. No, suh, never no The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is They'll be coming up for trial soon, and there's no chance along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. defiantly) But it's white man's bad luck. I remembered I'd given her a gun for protection all right. (There is a sodden He is asleep, his nodding head supported by his left hand. HICKEY--(with an amused wink at Hope) Now, listen, Jimmy, A girl's laugh is heard. (with rising there is a start from all the crowd, a shrinking away from For God's "Dey is," he while. Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.) ), JOE--(behind the lunch counter--brooding superstitiously)

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