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The Iceman Cometh

Eugene O'Neill

Paperback | Pages: 236 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 7476 Users | 248 Reviews

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Title	:	The Iceman Cometh
Author	:	Eugene O'Neill
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 236 pages
Published	:	August 28th 2006 by Yale University Press (first published January 1st 1946)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Classics. Fiction. Theatre

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Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a modest run in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival that brought new critical attention to O'Neill’s dark play. In the half century since, The Iceman Cometh has gained in stature. Kevin Spacey and James Earl Jones have played Hickey. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams.

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Original Title:	The Iceman Cometh
ISBN:	0300117434 (ISBN13: 9780300117431)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Cora, Pearl, Harry Hope, Ed Mosher, Pat McGloin, Willie Oban, Joe Mott, Piet Wetjoen (The General), Cecil Lewis (The Captain), James Cameron (Jimmy Tomorrow), Hugo Kalmar, Larry Slade, Rocky Pioggi, Don Parritt, Margie, Chuck Morello, Theodore Hickman (Hickey), Moran, Lieb
Setting:	Greenwich Village, New York City, New York,1912(United States)
Literary Awards:	New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Nominee for Best American Play (1947)

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Ratings: 3.95 From 7476 Users | 248 Reviews

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I have just finished reading this with 2 of my closest friends. The setting was my living room which perhaps felt like the bar in the play, with a few bedrooms upstairs. Oh man, that was so insanely wonderful. Reading out loud and in character is how plays are meant to be read. On the other note, the play was great. I love dark elements to writing. There was a lot of talk about pipe dreams, which isn't a term I use a lot, I don't even really know what it means. I have come to the conclusion that

Eugene O'Neill is America's finest playwright. You may argue that Miller or Inge or Capote have this or that or anything else, but no one put everything together in such a classic manner as ONeill. To read or watch an ONeill play is properly a life altering experience. Very often, as with the present work, it ought to leave ones life in shambles, the veritable house of cards you always knew it was but hoped no one else would notice.The Iceman Cometh is a tragedy, but one in which you find

"O'Neill uses the phrase the big sleep throughout his play as a synonym for death," advises Ray Chandler, "apparently in the belief that it's an accepted underworld expression. If so, I'd like to see whence it comes, because I invented the expression. I never saw the phrase in print before I used it. The tenor of his writing here shows that he knows very little about the subject."The playwright also bops us over the head with the phrase "pipe dreams." It takes him over four hours to say life

This is the first O'Neill play I've read, which is a shame being that he did much of his work in my hometown and we share a birthday. But I digress...The Iceman Cometh is depressing, resonant, and sadly realistic and relatable. The only thing that made me not give it five stars is that the dialogs can get pretty tired and unnatural feeling. Everyone responding to things in chorus is symbolic, but is unnecessary and becomes overused.

I enjoy going to the theater. I always have. But unless you live in New York or Toronto or Los Angeles and have unlimited money and endless free evenings you just can't see that many of the great plays in a lifetime. This simple fact is why I started reading plays and why I know that plays are meant to be read as well as performed.No American drama supports this assertion more than "The Iceman Cometh". It has a huge cast and goes on for hours and hours. It has had some memorable productions,

The characters are well-defined and drawn out. The dialogue is believable, but for as lengthy as this piece is, I was wishing there was more insight and backstory to provide the reader with a better understanding and empathy for why these people are they way they are.

This play concerns a saloon/rooming house and the alcoholics who live there. They sit around, reminiscing about the better days and their big plans to get their lives started, all of them anxiously awaiting the arrival of Hickey, a salesman who comes by once a year to blow a lot of money on them and throw a birthday party for Harry, the owner of the saloon.It's a great play and one of the best ever written, in my opinion. The setting, dialogue, and characters might seem a bit dated, but the