Adventure, storytelling, comedy and music. Alive with the rhythmic, driving music of a young America, one of the all-time greats of world literature is brought crashing onto the stage by award-winning theatre company and James Graham, winner of the Pearson Playwrighting Bursary. Huck, the outcast urchin, and Jim, the runaway slave, drift through the night, carried along on their makeshift raft by the mighty Mississippi in this adaptation of Mark Twain's confrontational and brilliantly funny novel. Huck is at the frontier - the frontier of a new nation, and the frontier of morality - struggling with all the conundrums the adult world can throw up. Fleeing his violent father, separated from his best friend, Huck wrestles with prejudices of faith, class, colour and age, while his own innately good heart struggles to win out. As the river carries them away from home and towards new dangers and adventures, the relationship between the two fugitives deepends, the adventures grow wilder and the stories taller. The ambitious, lyrical and riveting production, featuring admospheric live music, will tour mid-scale venues in the UK in Spring 2009. |
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