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2 unusual facts about Elevator Repair Service


Elevator Repair Service

As of 2013, ERS is developing two new works for the stage: Arguendo, a staging of the 1991 Supreme Court case Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., slated to premiere at The Public Theater in September 2013, and Fondly, Collette Richland, with preview performances at the Walker Art Center.

For the third play, based on The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (first published 1927), ERS created an edited version of the story using Hemingway's dialogue and some of his prose.


Peter Taub

In 2008, the MCA Stage hosted the Chicago-debut of New York-based Elevator Repair Service and its performance of Gatz, a seven-hour reading and reenactment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.


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