EugeneO\'Neill

Touch of the Poet

Plays of Eugene O'Neill (3 Volumes)

Complete Works of Eugene O'Neill

Iceman Cometh: A Play

Iceman Cometh

Wonderful character driven play., 1999-10-13
I haven't seen any of the recent productions of this play, in fact I've never seen this play at all, so I was quite daunted when I started reading. I shouldn't have worried. This is a wonderful character driven story, filled with marvellous, believable people, who live out a couple of days in their lives for us to view. At the beginning a group of no-hopers are found in the back room of a bar, sleeping off their hang-overs and waiting for the arrival of Hickey, their travelling salesman buddy. When Hickey does turn up, he is not himself and for the rest of the play, the reasons behind this change are gradually revealed to us and the other characters, before the explosive series of monologues from Hickey which exposes his dark secret. Read this play. You won't regret it. All I want now is to see a production, where the actors fully appreciate O'Neill's characterisations. Shame I missed the Spacey production while it was in London! Jay

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