Too Close To The Sun Tickets

John Robinson and Roberto Trippini present “Too Close To The Sun” at the Comedy Theatre, a fictional account of the latter years of famous writer Ernest Hemingway. Robinson and Trippini provide lyrics to the production whilst the pair work separately to provide the music and libretto respectively, hoping to capture a unique look at a man going through the motions of old age. It promises to be a compelling tale that has bribery, betrayal and lies all playing a role in the production as those around Hemingway have their own specific agendas.

Hemingway died in 1961 and “Too Close To The Sun” looks at these latter years leading up to that date as Hemingway confronts old age. He finds great comfort in his younger secretary, who wants more than to simply help the man. His wife has been putting up with his relationship with the woman for some time, but she does not realise that his secretary is lining herself as his new wife, hoping to inherit his large estate. However, lies and manipulation become even further embroiled in proceedings as an old school friend arrives in Rex, who hopes to secure the film rights to his life and who will embark on a dangerous game to get them.

Ernest Hemingway was a Nobel Prize winning author who was responsible for many famous books of the twentieth century, including 1929’s “A Farewell To Arms”, which dealt with the disillusionment of ambulance drivers during the First World War. He had fought in this war himself after beginning his career working inside a newspaper office from the age of seventeen. However, it was in the years after the war that he produced his famous works when he was a member of expatriate Americans based in Paris. As well as “A Farewell To Arms”, his other works include “The Sun Also Rises” (1926), which dealt with his time in Paris, “For Whom The Bell Tolls” (1940), which focussed on the Civil War in Spain and “The Old Man and the Sea” (1952), which was the story of a fisherman. Over the years there have also been various short story collections produced under the names “Men Without Women” (1927) and “The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938).

“Too Close To The Sun” is at the Comedy Theatre from Friday 24th July 2009 (previews from Thursday 16th July 2009) to Saturday 5th September 2009.