Is it hereby to say that I think - after seeing the opening last
night of O'Neill's first play in twelve years, that I feel sure the
book will have longer life than the play. Extraordinarily vivid in
its portraiture of the down and outers in the back room of a ??-Law
hotel, a gin mill lower than which no one can descend, the play has
a static quality - a lack of dramatic action, that only O'Neill
could make gripping. There are marvelous lines in it, the symbolism
and the denouement are- as so often with O'Neill- open to double
interpretation. A literary as well as a dramatic event of first
importance, the book publication simultaneously with the dramatic
production gives nationwide impetus to O'Neill's return to the
public. (Kirkus Reviews)
An ominous play set in a cruel world of dark realism, an
acknowledged masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most
significant writers. Harry Hope's Saloon is a waterfront bar full
of life's failures. They exist barely, living on the knowledge that
love is a chimera and despair is perpetual; that the desires they
cultivate of an impossible future are only ever pipe dreams,
because the only thing to look forward to is death. And then one
day Hickey walks in with his own personal brand of hope, and his
urge to make them face the truth. Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's
play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater,
New York, in October 1946. It had its UK premiere at the Arts
Theatre, London, in January 1958. 'A dramatised neurosis, with no
holds barred, written in a vein of unsparing implacable honesty'
Kenneth Tynan 'O'Neill, the great patriach of Broadway and the
playwright who laid out the map on which all contemporary American
drama is still written - Iceman is the first truly great epic of
the modern American theatre, and its legacy is the intimate
stripping of the soul which we now take for granted in drama
worldwide' Sheridan Morley This edition of The Iceman Cometh
includes a full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.
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