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The Iceman Cometh

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The Iceman Cometh
Written byEugene O'Neill
Date premieredOctober 9, 1946
Place premieredMartin Beck Theatre
New York City
Original languageEnglish
GenreTragedy[1][2]
Setting1912, Harry Hope's Saloon in New York

The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill[3] in 1939. First published in 1946,[3] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple times. The work tells the story of a number of alcoholic dead-enders who live together in a flop house above a saloon and what happens to them when the most outwardly "successful" of them embraces sobriety.

New York Times theatre critic Brooks Atkinson, at the beginning of the telecast of Sidney Lumet's 1960 television adaptation of The Iceman Cometh, called it, "a harsh and ruthless drama.... It is one of America's greatest plays," 14 years after it opened to mixed reviews on Broadway. Many years later, the 1999 Broadway revival, based on a 1998 London production starring Kevin Spacey as Hickey, was staged at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

  1. ^ "The Iceman Cometh | play by O'Neill".
  2. ^ Black, Stephen A. (2006). "Tragic Anagnorisis in 'The Iceman Cometh'". The Eugene O'neill Review. 28: 147–164. JSTOR 29784808.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NYT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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