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Iceman Cometh, The

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Iceman Cometh, The
portrayal of Harry Hope’s rundown saloon which harbors alcoholics. [Am. Lit.: The Iceman Cometh]

Iceman Cometh, The
“The lie of the pipe dream is what gives life.” [Am. Lit.: The Iceman Cometh]
See : Hope

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When outsized actors aren't available to embody the tremendous visions of certain playwrights, when there's no actor of Olivier's electricity to communicate Shakespeare's vision of jealousy in Othello, when an Eileen Atkins isn't on hand to incarnate Shaw's idea of incipient Protestantism in Saint Joan, when it's not Jason Robards conveying the full blast of O'Neil's bleakness in The Iceman Cometh, the thought immanent in the text does not truly surface.
 
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