“I got to know Hemingway well when I was a guest at his home near Havana,” Hotchner told the Observer.
Yet the great American writer remained unsatisfied with its legacy and always hoped to see a faithful stage or screen version made.
The journalist and playwright AE Hotchner, the writer’s confidant and fishing companion in Cuba during the period in which the novella was written, has created a stage version with his son.
For “Hotch”, Hemingway’s old pal, the important thing is that the play communicates clearly that the fisherman’s story is the story of everyone’s career.