Denzel Washington as Higgy in " the iceman cometh"

Denzel Washington as Higgy in " the iceman cometh"

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edward w pritchard

We have never watched the play live or a movie of it in it's entirety but we enjoy the play by Eugene O'Neil a little at a time. It's said O'Neil borrowed the concept from Russian writer Gorky's " the lower depths".

In any event this reviewer would like to take the train up to New York and watch Denzel's performance, but that won't likely happen.

It is a very demanding role, the role of reformed alcoholic Higgy.. Kevin Spacey looks from the clips we saw of his performance like he handled the complicated role well. He is one of the premier male leads working today, if he is still working which would be sad if he isn't.

With more than a dozen characters on stage most of the time Iceman is  a good venue for  the actors unions. It would be amazing if you tube or Roku could bring a TV showing live of the play Iceman in it's early run to us in the hinter lands of America. They call us hicks there in NYC sometimes but we have our pipe dreams too and we enjoy good live theater one good play per decade of our lives or so is about enough for us.

In any event we are rereading O'Neil's iceman one more time to review and revisit our own pipe dreams and to update their current status.