Veteran actor Stacy Keach will return to the stage in July to attend to a bit of unfinished business. The veteran actor will return to the role of author Ernest Hemingway in Jim McGrath鈥檚 world-premiere solo drama Pamplona, which is set to play Chicago鈥檚 Goodman Theatre July 10鈥揂ugust 19.
Keach was appearing in Pamplona last spring when he fell ill onstage during the opening night performance. The performance was halted, and the Goodman ultimately canceled the entire run of the play when Keach's doctors determined that the veteran actor had experienced an onstage heart attack.
The Goodman stated at the time that a complete recovery was expected following a period of cardiac rehabilitation and rest. Keach later told the Chicago Tribune that he had an unfulfilled obligation 鈥渢o the play, to the city and to myself.鈥�
鈥淚鈥檓 thrilled to reunite with Stacy Keach and Jim McGrath for what I know will be a triumphant return to this beautifully rendered work about one of our most charismatic yet complicated literary titans鈥攁nd a Chicagoland native鈥擡rnest Hemingway,鈥� said Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls, who is also the play鈥檚 director.
Thirty-three years ago Keach was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for playing the author in a 1988 television miniseries titled Hemingway. Keach and Falls previously collaborated on Finishing the Picture and at the Goodman.
鈥淎fter the prize comes the pressure,鈥� read press notes for Pamplona. 鈥淏asking in the glory of career-defining awards鈥攖he 1953 Pulitzer Prize and the coveted Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954鈥攍egendary writer Ernest Hemingway insists his best work is yet to come. Five years later, holed up in a Spanish hotel with a looming deadline, he struggles to knock out a story about the rivalrous matadors of Pamplona. But his real battles lie outside the bullfighting arena; in declining health, consumed by his troubled fourth marriage and tormented by the specter of past glories, he must now conquer the deepening despair that threatens to engulf him.鈥�
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