Photo Flash: Literary Greats Square Off In Langhorne Players' SCOTT AND HEM

It's July 4, 1937 in Hollywood. MGM is at the top of their game, and Gone with the Wind is the bestselling book for the second year in a row. Once considered the voice of a generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald has burned through his money and is essentially washed up. His reliance on alcohol and women has nearly cost him his contract as a screenwriter for MGM. Determined to get sober and finish work on the screenplay of Three Comrades, Scott holes up in the Garden of Allah apartments with one of Louis Mayer's assistants, Ms. Montaigne. Up against an impossible deadline, one of Scott's old friends shows up unannounced: Ernest Hemingway. He has a proposition for Scott to turn one of his short stories into a screenplay, but the business meeting soon devolves into a war of words as grudges from the pair's years spent in Paris with the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s are renewed and unresolved tensions threaten to explode like fireworks.

Scott and Hem is written by Mark St. Germain (Freud's Last Session, Becoming Dr. Ruth) and produced by Langhorne Players by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. John Boccanfuso directs a cast led by Christopher Lapinski as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Bathke as Ernest Hemingway, and Melissa Rittmann as Ms. Eve Montaigne.

Performances run April 20 through May 5: Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm, Thursdays at 7:30pm, and a special Wednesday performance on May 2 at 7:30pm with a cast/creative Q&A session to follow. Performances take place at the historic Spring Garden Mill (1440 Newtown-Richboro Road) in Newtown, PA. Tickets may be reserved by calling (215) 860-0818 or purchased online at http://www.langhorneplayers.org/2018-ticket-sales/scottandhem

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