A Tribute to Ernest Hemingway A New Two-Character Play About the Life and Loves of Ernest Hemingway An interpretation of Hemingway's life Conceived and Written by Ken Vose & Jordan Rhodes Starring Jordan Rhodes and Lynn Moore PAPA is a fully realized Broadway-style play with a complete set, authentic props and costumes. A lighting plot with over 65 lighting cues, plus wonderfully chosen and professionally mastered sound cues on CD. NOW BOOKING FOR THE 2009-10 SEASON!

Playwright Ken Vose and performer Jordan Rhodes, a popular and successful actor in film and television for more than thirty years, have joined together to bring audiences an interesting, compelling and entertaining evening of theatre about Ernest Hemingway, one of our greatest literary artists. This tribute to "Papa" Hemingway, reveals a vulnerable, deeply troubled man, whose fight with his own inner demons produced some of the greatest fiction of the twentieth century. The play begins and ends on the morning of July 2, 1961, the last day of Hemingway's life. Told in flashback, PAPA presents the triumphs and tragedies of Hemingway's fascinating life. From the battlefields of World War One, to the Paris cafes of the roaring twenties, the Spain of Civil War and bullfights, Sloppy Joe's in Key West Florida, France during World War II, fishing for Marlin and U-boats off Cuba, or on Safari in Africa, Hemingway was there.

Hemingway talks about his novels and the mostly terrible treatment they received from Hollywood. "A Farewell to Arms," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "The Sun Also Rises," "To Have and Have Not" and "The Old Man and The Sea" were produced as major motion pictures. For "The Old Man and The Sea," Hemingway was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize.

PAPA is a two character play performed with an intermission. Set and lighting design by Michael C. Sapp. Running time is approximately one hour and fifty-five minutes (1:55). It consists of a prologue and two acts (in five scenes). Each of the scenes begins with a monologue by one of the five major women in Hemingway's life: Agnes von Kurowsky, Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn and Mary Welsh. These women are portrayed by actress Lynn Moore.

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