“INVENTIVE…imaginative…enrichingly evocative.”
– The Washington Post
“STC, as has become its habit, is hosting a visit by an exciting, provocative company with a well-earned international reputation, doing something really unusual and distinct.”
– DC Theatre Scene
“SMASHINGLY theatrical…brilliantly inventive”
– DC Metro Theater Arts
“this show is truly wonderful…a lively riff on Hemingway’s first and greatest novel.”
– The New York Times
“Probably the last things that come to mind when thinking about Ernest Hemingway are ‘laughs’ and ‘awesome dance moves.’ And yet there are plenty of both during The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Elevator Repair Service’s stage version of Papa’s iconic novel of desperate boozing, canoodling and bullfighting.”
– New York Post
The Select (The Sun Also Rises) was initially produced by Elevator Repair Service and New York Theatre Workshop.
A stage littered with liquor bottles and café chairs seamlessly transforms itself from the bistros of Paris to the banks of the Irati River; a long bar table roars to life and charges a champion matador; an out-of-control dance party takes off during a night of nonstop revelry. As the story winds its way through France and Spain and lands in Pamplona where bullfighting and the fiesta rage in the streets, Hemingway’s narrator carries the heavy burdens of a war injury and his inability to have the woman he loves; a woman whose amorous escapades he follows with bemused but painful fatalism.
Created by acclaimed theatre ensemble Elevator Repair Service, The Select (The Sun Also Rises) is the third in a trilogy of literary adaptations along with Gatz (The Great Gatsby) and The Sound and the Fury. Following the success of Headlong’s 1984 and the National Theatre of Scotland’s Dunsinane, STC presents another innovative production that reimagines a classic story through the fusion of artistic forms.
The Select (The Sun Also Rises) is a co-production of Elevator Repair Service and New York Theatre Workshop. It was commissioned by the Ringling International Arts Festival, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, in association with the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY; the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival with funding from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative; ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage, Boston, MA; and Festival Theaterformen Hannover/Braunschweig.
Press & More:
Drink Like Hemingway
Read: ASIDES Magazine for THE SELECT (THE SUN ALSO RISES)
Drink: Hemingway Daiquiri Class
Watch: Trailer for THE SELECT (THE SUN ALSO RISES)
Read: On Tap Magazine’s interview with Director John Collins
Read: THE NEW YORK TIMES article about the sound design of THE SELECT
Read: Lives of the Lost Generation
Read: A Work of Genius and Gossip
Read: Meet Elevator Repair Service
Read: The Hemingway Myth
Read: Director’s Note
Read: Drewmaturgy: Four Favorites by Hemingway
Explore: Hemingway in Earnest, Selected Stories
Drink: Cider Tour
Watch: Michael Kahn talks about THE SELECT: THE SUN ALSO RISES
View: Photos from The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
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Details
The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
Feb 18, 2017 - Apr 2, 2017
Klein Theatre The Select (The Sun Also Rises) is sponsored by Michael R. Klein and Joan I. Fabry.
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