Fond as I am of the Finborough Theatre, some of its deadly-serious, issue-based programming can be a hard sell. It
does produce its share of joyous shows - I still sometimes go on about how funny
Quality Street was a decade later, and only last year they camped
After Dark up to within an inch of its life - but its online offerings during lockdown haven't exactly been focused on escapism. Which brings us to September's offering, the story of Ernest Hemingway blowing his brains out. Mercifully not
in musical form, but in German playwright Rolf Hochhuth's 1977 play
Death of a Hunter, which got its English-language premiere at the Finborough in 2018 (this archive recording is being released as a tribute to the playwright, who died in May.) We follow Hemingway (Edmund Dehn) in the last hour of his life, having already decided to follow his father's example and commit suicide.
