Tom And Huck--The Love Story

~with tribute to the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting
and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival who presents the award,
for which I won in 2005 for my play Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress,
and to Mr. Twain himself and his beloved characters in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn~

Cast: Needed:  5 men, 2 women: TOM, HUCK, BECKY, SID, and NEWCOMER BOY (all 16 yrs. old but could be played by adults), AUNT POLLY (40 yrs. old), MR. MARK TWAIN (old). (The actor playing Mr. Twain also plays PREACHER-MAN, PAPPY, and SCHOOL MASTER.)

Setting: The poor shabby little village of St. Petersburg, Missouri, 1850. One unit set that allows for several locations with a minimal amount of scene changes and black-outs.

Length: 96 pages, act one is approximately 50 minutes and act two is approximately 45 minutes.

The gist: A romantic comedy introduced by Mr. Twain himself who is revisiting his classic characters of 1850 St. Petersburg, Missouri.  Now, in their teenage years, Tom's adventures explore and ultimately redefine what makes a family, and Mr. Twain promises not to let Tom's stories be white washed like a fence.  This time through, Mr. Twain allows Tom and Huck (and half-brother Sid) to leave their mark in our Americana history.