By Cal
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TsWYuikhwE
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Until today, the only thing I knew about Ernest Hemingway
was that he’d written The Old Man and the Sea, a novella I’d really
struggled to make any sense of. I approached the play with some trepidation and
quickly discovered that I was ignorant to the extent that it was affecting my
understanding of the play. Hemingway was very vividly played by Edmund Dehn,
the sole performer, but the text lurched from one subject to another. The first
problem with this was that it left me feeling rather disorientated. The second
problem was that the one impression which I did get from Dehn’s performance was
that Hemingway was extremely confused and it was impossible for me to form any
idea of how much of his ramblings was real and how much came from his paranoia.
