The Select
(The Sun Also Rises) • Press
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- Sarasota Herald-Tribune October 8, 2009
How dry he’s not: Hemingway, brought to the stage in lively fashion
By Peter Marks
In the booze-soaked subculture of “The Select (The Sun Also Rises),” life is a cabernet.
Without the liquor bottles, martini glasses, wine goblets and beer bottles that are poured or passed around ad infinitum over the course of this enrichingly evocative stage compression of Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, you come to feel that the characters might have nothing of any material significance to engage or sustain them.
It’s alcohol’s delirious powers that level the painful bumps in the lives of these Lost Generation souls, men and women who have survived World War I with instincts intact only for adventure and getting “tight.” Jake Barnes (Mike Iveson), the newspaperman left impotent by a war injury; Brett Ashley (Stephanie Hayes), the British swell joylessly juggling lovers; Robert Cohn (John Collins), the dour Jewish literary striver who latches pathetically onto others: They’re tossed together in Hemingway’s colorful roman à clef, traipsing across France and Spain with an open spigot of spirits to keep them going.
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