| About the Play |
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Audience members are transformed into uninvited photographers for
LIFE MAGAZINE.
The location is Finca Vigía - the Cuban home of
Ernest Hemingway.
The year is 1959 - one year before the author took his own life.
“Everything in the play is based on events recounted by Ernest Hemingway and those who knew him. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Among them: • Toby Bruce, Papa's Key West sidekick and drinking partner for some 25 years • Gregorio Fuentes, a model for The Old Man and the Sea's Santiago and the first mate of Hemingway's cherished fishing boat The Pilar. • Madelaine "Sunny" Hemingway Miller, Papa's "favorite Littlest kid sister ". • Dr. Roberto Herrara, the Cuban physician who cared for Hemingway during his later years after the two first met in Spain during the Civil War. • Glady's Ferrero, director of the Hemingway Museum at Hemingway's home in Cuba. • Tillie Arnold, the widow of Hemingway's old hunting pal at Sun Valley, Idaho, and the one who cleaned up the gore the author left when he shot himself in the foyer of his home that Sunday morning in July of 1961. |