The Fifth Column
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 27, 2008
Closed May 18, 2008
Opened Mar 27, 2008
Closed May 18, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Mint Theater Company presents the long-delayed world premiere production of The Fifth Column, by Ernest Hemingway. Jonathan Bank directs.
Hemingway wrote The Fifth Column in 1937 when he was in Madrid working as a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War. The play revolves around the personal and political passions of Philip Rawlings, a counter-espionage agent living in the Hotel Florida and working for the Loyalist cause.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Mint Theater
311 W 43rd St
New York, NY 10036
The Mint's mission is to bring new vitality to neglected plays.
311 W 43rd St
New York, NY 10036
The Mint's mission is to bring new vitality to neglected plays.
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Noel Coward, who knew as much about theater as anyone in the first half of the 20th Century, once declared in notes to a friend that "novelists can't write plays and playwrights can't write novels." More than likely, he wasn't thinking specifically of Ernest Hemingway's only full-length play,
The Fifth Column, but he might as well have been. The three-act work, now getting its premiere at the Mint Theater, is a curiosity in many aspects -- but no way is it a successful drama.
In his eagerness to produce the revered author, Mint Theater artistic head and chief director Jonathan Bank assigned himself a daunting challenge, and he only begins to address the play's built-in problems. While h[...]