Hemingway’s forgotten Spanish civil war play to be produced for only second time ever

The Fifth Column, now revived for the first time in 70 years, is fascinating for what it reveals about the authorNext week the Southwark Playhouse in London will host what will be only the second production in Britain of Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 play, The Fifth Column (the first, produced by Michael Powell, toured in early 1944). Hemingway wrote the play while in Madrid covering the Spanish civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Although the main fighting w