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Spellbinding--soaring theater--. For reasons that remain mysterious, it seems especially moving today.-- The New York Times
Eugene O'Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a seedy, skid row saloon in 1 912, peopled by society's failures: worn-out anarchists, failed con artists, drifters, whores, pimps, and info rmers. The pipe-dreaming drunks of Harry Hope's bar numb themselves with rotgut gin and make grandiose plans, while waiting for the annual appearance of the big-spending, fast -talking salesman, Hickey. But this year's visit fails to bring the expected good times, as a changed Hickey tries to rouse the barflies from their soothing stupor with a proselytizing message of salvation through self-knowl edge .
Considered by many to be the Nobel Prize-winning play wright's finest work, The Iceman Cometh exposes the human need for illusion as an antidote to despair. The recent gripping, critically acclaimed Broadway production, starring Kevin Spacey, has high light ed anew the subversive genius of O'Neill's play.
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