The Select (The Sun Also Rises) at NYTW

New York Theatre Workshop presents The Select (The Sun Also Rises), created by Elevator Repair Service (ERS) based on Ernest Hemingway's novel, 'The Sun Also Rises.'

The play opens at New York Theatre Workshop on 11 Sep 2011, following previews from 19 Aug 2011, and closes on 9 Oct 2011.

A fresh take on Ernest Hemingway's tale of young ex-patriots living in Europe after World War I as journalist Jake Barnes, his former lover Lady Brett Ashley, and the writer Robert Cohn cope with post-war realities and enter the 'age of anxiety.'

Dirrected by directed by John Collins, The Select (The Sun Also Rises) features Frank Boyd, Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Kate Scelsa, Kaneza Schaal, Pete SimpsonSusie Sokol, Lucy Taylor, Matt Tierney and Ben Williams.

The design team includes David Zinn (set & costume design), Mark Barton (lighting) and Matt Tierney and Ben Williams (sound).

The Select (The Sun Also Rises) is a co-production of Elevator Repair Service and New York Theatre Workshop.

Elevator Repair Service received critical acclaim for their presentation of 'GATZ,' based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, at the Public Theatre in 20102, and their interpretation of 'The Sound and the Fury' was critically acclaimed when it debuted at NYTW in 2008.