The Select
(The Sun Also Rises) • Press
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- British Theatre Guide August 2010
- Sarasota Herald-Tribune October 8, 2009
Review: ‘The Select (The Sun Also Rises)’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
By Robert Michael Oliver
The Elevator Repair Service’s production of The Select (The Sun also Rises) opened at the Lansburgh Theatre Monday, and I’m certain that Earnest Hemingway’s 1926 debut novel, known for its spare, reportage prose, never felt so alive with wit and wonder.
After all, “the sun also rises” is but an afterthought to “the sun (most definitely) sets.”
And that’s the belly-thought at the center of Hemingway’s post World War I world.
Founded in 1991, The Elevator Repair Service is an ensemble theatre known for turning prose into performance; they are also known for never changing a word of the original text.
They remained true to this knowledge on Monday. The Select is all Hemingway and his stoically brave masculinism, with an overlay of modern, theatrical sensibility–that sensibility being irony, good humor, and a delightful randomness.
Imaginatively directed by John Collins, with detailed scenery and costumes by David Zinn, effective lighting by Mark Barton, and some delicious sound effects by Matt Tierney and Ben Williams, the Elevator’s take on the novel begins with Paris café culture, namely the internationally famous Café Select.
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