num_pages: 142
description: Into a waterfront bar, full of life's failures, subsisting solely on their dreams, comes Hickey with his urge to make them face the truth. This play, first staged in 1946, is written by the author of Anna Christie and Strange Interlude, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
language: English
title: The Iceman Cometh
titlecomplete: The Iceman Cometh
characters: Lieb, Cora, Don Parritt, Willie Oban, Piet Wetjoen (The General), Chuck Morello, James Cameron (Jimmy Tomorrow), Theodore Hickman (Hickey), Pat McGloin, Joe Mott, Ed Mosher, Rocky Pioggi, Margie, Cecil Lewis (The Captain), Harry Hope, Hugo Kalmar, Moran, Larry Slade, Pearl
genres: American, Drama, Fiction, Plays, The United States Of America, 20th Century, Literature, Theatre, Classics, Nobel Prize
ratings_count: 9814
places: Greenwich Village, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: -725817600000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Nick Hern Books