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FYI,      Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, NJ State Library

 

Mark Twain Impersonator Offers Collaborative Summer Library Programs

 

Themed programs for audiences age 8 – 80 designed for Summer Reading Programs and Programs for General Audiences through the end of 2011.

Water and Travel are constant themes in Mark Twain’s work. He traveled more extensively and was associated with more bodies of water than any other land-based American writer of the nineteenth century. He worked on water; wrote about water. His travels on it helped make him the most famous writer on Earth.

 

Presented by Alan Kitty www.marktwainslaststasnd.com,  609-219-9339.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every work on the following list was made possible because of Twain’s association with water.

 

Mississippi River

       Life On The Mississippi

       Adventures of Tom Sawyer

       Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

       The Guilded Age

Atlantic Ocean

       Innocents Abroad

       Tramps Abroad

Pacific Ocean

       Dispatches from the Sandwich Islands

       Philippine-American War

Mediterranean Sea

       Innocents Abroad

Nile River

       Innocents Abroad

Water - everywhere

       Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes

 

GENERAL AUDIENCES

Mark Twain’s Last Stand (Biography and Fantasy)

Twain had been filled with wanderlust from his earliest boyhood. Respiratory ailments kept him housebound until age four, enhancing his dream to travel – anywhere, and any mode of transportation would do, including time travel. Last Stand uses this mode of transportation to bring Twain into the present century to comment on the human condition, and offer a permanent solution to Recession. But he has an agenda: he wants to run for President in 2012.

 

Running Time: Eighty minutes of stories, anecdotes and tall tales to entertain, inform and inspire.

 

YOUNG AUDIENCES

Mark Twain Live

This show is what the children make it. We offer stories from the oral tradition that made it possible for Twain to become the beloved performing artist and author; and add stories that reflect Twain’s gift of improvisation. This show was inspired by a Clemens family tradition. After dinner each night, he would tell his children impromptu stories about objects in the room. They would make suggestions at will that made the stories more to their liking. For this series of shows, the children get to ask Twain any question they like, provided it has something to do with water. In 2010, his response has to include a reference to water from his writings or his life.  In 2011, the questions can cover any topic, but his references must be travel.

 

Running Time: 45 minutes to one hour each.

 

COST

Single program        $650 each up to two. plus travel and expenses

Three programs        $1,500 over two days, plus travel and expenses.

-                      Additional programs - $550.

 

(Travel between each program not to exceed 15 miles. A minimum allowance of two hours between each show is required for travel, meals and costume adjustments.)

 

ABOUT ALAN KITTY

Kitty has been a Mark Twain Impersonator and has portrayed the humorist on stage and film since 1979. As a playwright, he has penned seven works, including three one-man shows on Twain; and a musical play about Bing Crosby. He was the recipient of a Manhattan Cable grant for his original series “Reel Exposure.” Other works include the dark political comedy “Elective Behaviors,” and the whimsical social satire “Landscape.” His current show, “Mark Twain’s Last Stand” has had over 90 performances, and opens Off Broadway on May 6, 2010 at the Kraine Theatre in New York.

 

For more information, and to view a clip from one of our shows, go to our website at www.marktwainslaststasnd.com or call 609-219-9339.