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Actor Brian Gordon Sinclair performs Hemingway

Brian Gordon Sinclair, author of Hemingway on Stage, is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a Master of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Denver. He has also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and at the National Film Board of Canada.
Sinclair is continuing a five-play series on the life of writer Ernest Hemingway, called Hemingway on Stage, the first three plays of which have premiered at the Hemingway Days Festival in Key West, Florida.
Part I: Sunrise, focused on Hemingway’s youth in Oak Park, Ill., and Northern Michigan and ended with Hemingway in Italy during WWI.
Part II: The Lost Generation, picks up with Hemingway marry Hadley, returns to Toronto for the birth of his first child and goes to Spain where he finds the material for his book, The Sun Also Rises, and ends with his separation from the first Mrs. Hemingway.
Part III: Death in the Afternoon, is titled after Hemingway’s famous bullfighting treatise. It was performed at the Hemingway Days Festival in Key West, July 2005. Death in the Afternoon begins with the depiction of a bullfight on stage and ends with the devastating hurricane that hit the Florida Keys in 1935.
The critically acclaimed series has won the actor/author applause from a wide selection of Hemingway scholars and fans.
The fourth play of the series, The Man-Eaters, will be preformed in Key West during the July 2006 Hemingway Days Festival.
Sinclair recently spent time in and around Havana, researching Hemingway’s life, frequenting many of Hemingway’s favorite watering holes, and fishing sites.
The new segment of the five-play series will show a multi-media display of Hemingway’s first African safari, followed by a dramatic reenactment of a lion hunt. Act I will also explore Hemingway’s relationship with Jane Mason, as he discovers the joys of Havana and the revolutionary nature of its people.
Act II will follow Hemingway to Spain and the brutal civil war between the Republicans and Nationalists. The atrocities of both sides will be depicted before the play concludes with Hemingway’s speech to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
A recipient of the Sir Tyrone Guthrie Award for acting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Sinclair has performed in Denmark, Holland, Poland, and the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. He is now Artistic Director of Ontario's "Children of Erin" Theatre Company. Sinclair is a dual citizen of Ireland and Canada.

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