Timely Twain

by Jim Carroll

Performance Times:

Fridays, May 12, May 19 and May 26 @ 7:30 pm

Saturdays, May 13, May 20 and May 27 @ 7:30 pm

Bargain Sunday, May 21 @ 4 pm (all seats $14)

Sunday May 28, @ 4 pm

Students/Senior – $16 Adults – $20 (Get them online, at the door or reserve at ocp@whidbey.com.)

Directed by David Ossman with Jim Carroll as The Narrator, Mark Twain is arguably our most famous American author and humorist. He was also an important and influential social icon. Timely Twain opens with the witty storyteller. Later, we see him use his podium to deliver his wry political and social commentary. Finally, the numerous tragedies in his personal life appear to lead him to a darker, disappointed cynicism.

Samuel Clemens followed every personal tragedy with surges of creative energy and productivity. There’s no doubt he would have done so again but for an appointment with Halley’s Comet in 1910. With faith in Clemens’s indomitable nature, the playwright gives Captain Stormfield, Twain’s posthumous alter ego, the final encouraging words.