The iceman cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a play written by Eugene O’Neill in 1939. First published in 1940 and first produced on Broadway in 1946, it is considered one of the author’s finest works. The play was later adapted into a TV movie in 1960 as well as a big screen motion picture in 1973, both by the same name.
Characters
The following is the list of characters as printed in the 1988 Library of America edition.
* Harry Hope, proprietor of a saloon and rooming house*
* Ed Mosher, Hope’s brother-in-law, one-time circus man*
* Pat McGloin, one-time Police Lieutenant*
* Willie Oban, a Harvard Law School alumnus*
* Joe Mott, a one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling house
* Piet Wetjoen, (”The General”), one-time leader of a Boer commando*
* Cecil Lewis, (”The Captain”), one-time Captain of British infantry*
* James Cameron (”Jimmy Tomorrow”), one-time Boer War correspondent*
* Hugo Kalmar, one-time editor of Anarchist periodicals
* Larry Slade, one-time Syndicalist-Anarchist
* Rocky Pioggi, night bartender*
* Don Parritt*
* Pearl, street walker*
* Margie, street walker*
* Cora, street walker
* Chuck Morello, day bartender*
* Theodore Hickman (Hickey), a hardware salesman
* Moran
* Lieb