Watching the Ken Burns’ Hemingway biography on PBS this week reminded me of a wonderful short dramatic piece I saw many years ago called The Hemingway Play.

The Hemingway Play was an original play by screenwriter/journalist/author Fredrick Hunter. It was broadcast only once—on a PBS anthology show in 1976—and never shown again.

In this surrealistic play, four versions of Hemingway come together, interacting and confronting each other in a small Spanish café:

First is the young wounded soldier wi...