Description

This play is a skillful adaptation of Mark Twain’s lovable story, held together through the intermissions by Huck’s own narration. Commencing his tale in Mark Twain’s own words, Huck leads the audience through his maze of colorful adventures: sawing his way out of the cabin where he has been imprisoned, escaping down the river on a raft with a runaway slave, falling into the clutches of two itinerant rascals, rescuing two orphan girls from their schemes, and conspiring with Tom Sawyer to steal the runaway slave out of captivity. Huck appears at each intermission to bridge the gaps in his story, carrying the first-person Mark Twain flavor throughout. Four sets. Simple 19th-century American Midwest costumes. Approximate running time: 90 minutes.