The Iceman Cometh
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Opened Apr 21, 2012
Closes Jun 17, 2012
Opened Apr 21, 2012
Closes Jun 17, 2012
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In The Iceman Cometh, Harry Hope's saloon is home to a ragtag band of drunks and dreamers who celebrate the arrival of Hickey, the charismatic traveling salesman whose raucous presence always ensures a grand good time. But when a newly sober Hickey blows in with a renewed outlook on life, his zealous attempts to fix the lives of his old friends leads to a series of events that are at once devastatingly comic and heartbreaking--and a revelation that threatens to shatter the tenuous illusions that fuel their lives.
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Eugene O'Neill's
The Iceman Cometh, now receiving a brilliantly conceived and executed production at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, is one of the Himalaya Mountains of American drama.
With a playing time well in excess of four hours -- due in part to O'Neill's fondness for repetitions of phrases and character moments -- the work is a challenge for directors, actors, and audiences as it tells the story of a group of alcoholic dreamers in a seamy 1912 dead-end bar and rooming house, living for the next drink and a "tomorrow" that never arrives.
Still, Iceman sings with O'Neill's finest rough-hewn poetry and character writing, as pungent and low-life as those characters. And director Robert [...]