The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 11, 2011
Closed Oct 23, 2011
Opened Sep 11, 2011
Closed Oct 23, 2011
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Elevator Repair Service's The Select (The Sun Also Rises), which is directed by John Collins, is based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. It presents a fresh take on Hemingway's tale of young expatriates living in early 20th century Europe in which journalist Jake Barnes, his former lover Lady Brett Ashley, and the writer Robert Cohn cope with post-war realities and enter the "age of anxiety" following the end World War I.
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In The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Elevator Repair Service's recitation-adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel, now being presented at New York Theatre Workshop, there isn't much onstage of what the famous author would likely label "good," one of the adjectives for which he's renowned and which often appears in his text. Sad to say, this three-and-a-half-hour presentation is a sorry comedown from last year's Gatz, the company's surpassing treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
The problem is that the ERS troupe, guided by founder-artistic director John Collins, has treated the work as if they haven't picked up the points that Hemingway, then earning his keep as a repor[...]