Death in the Afternoon debuted at the Hemingway Days Festival in Key West, Florida in July of 2005 in support of the Hemingway Collection at the Customs House Museum administered by the Key West Art and Historical Society. The final performance was attended by the Honourable Anthony Knill, Consul General of Canada.
Act One: The play opens with a description of the “Running of the Bulls” in Pamplona, Spain, followed by a dramatization of an actual bullfight. Act One concludes with the critical reactions to The Sun Also Rises and Hemingway’s farewell to Paris.
Act Two: The second act begins with scenes of Key West and a brawl at Sloppy Joe’s Bar. Hemingway gets stranded in the Dry Tortugas, saves his son’s life, and plans a rebellion. The act finishes with the devastating hurricane of 1935.
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