Prescott Fine Arts Presents AN EVENING WITH MARK TWAIN, 4/3

Prescott Fine Arts Association is proud to present Kurt Sutton in AN EVENING WITH Mark Twain Saturday April 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm for one performance only. Tickets are $17 and $12 for students (22 years and younger).

Atlanta-based professional actor, Kurt Sutton, will present his one-man, acclaimed performance "An Evening with Mark Twain" at the Prescott Fine Arts  Association on Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 7:30pm. Mr. Sutton's show is different from other one-man Twain shows because he includes period music and brings Samuel Clemens into Twain, a reference to the fact that Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens and that Mark Twain was a character that Clemens created for himself.

Act I focuses mostly on the author's reminiscences of his early life, punctuated with folksy old songs such as "Down in the Valley and "Old Time Religion". The audience is invited to sing along. Then, Twain's storytelling style is turned into a theatrical enactment of the "Grandfather's Old Ram" story (from "Roughing It") as told by a character called Jim Blaine.

Act II contains a dramatized segment from "Huckleberry Finn," during which Sutton switches from being Twain to channeling Huck as well as the boy's drunken, no-good father. This is followed by the evening's funniest tale on how the 70-year-old Twain tried to learn to ride a bicycle - mostly by falling off it in many different ways.

For more information, visit http://www.pfaa.net/

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