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...Huck Finn's spirit may be lurking near the Charles this Saturday at the First Annual Adams House Raft Race. The race will begin...
...UNFORTUNATE that the text keeps getting in the way, for there are moments of a quite subtle beauty in this production. Huck's and Jim's self-imposed exile is seen as characteristic of a frontier society in which isolation appears to be the rule. Sara Brownell's lighting and Bob McCoy's piano accompaniment (while the latter seems too often intrusive in the rowdier episodes) are suggestive of the lonely, moral equilibrium that Huck can find only on a raft in mid-river. Fletcher World's Jim, although characterized with an understated dignity and authority that Twain himself hardly...
...true comedians in the hardworking company (the actress who plays the hair-lipped Wilkes girl, in particular), but there also is too much undisciplined scuffling and shuffling about even to allow matters to proceed as smoothly as the dream-journey that some critics have suggested Huck's river voyage is. Scott R. Heath adopted notably individualized accents for his bit characters, but not when playing the Duke. Both he and David Keyser, as the Dauphin, were just too relentlessly histrionic and, for all the effort, produced no real characterizations...
...Carden, as Huck, had to carry virtually the entire first act himself and the weight of that assignment showed. He has some fine turns, like his mimed escape from Pap's cabin, and he possesses a crazy abandon when it comes to attempting just about any kind of physical stunt. But. in an effort to pace himself for the long haul to the intermission, Carden's voice settled for the unexciting middle road. One just doesn't expect to discover such a subdued Huck Finn...
...shame, too. This Huck Finn, while a victim of its own ambition, is always less than the sum of its parts, but you're sure to discover a number of wonderful little things in the production, even if few sustain you throughout the whole performance. And yet Thursday night's audience-many of whom were of high school age-appeared more exhilarated after the intermission than they did at any one point during the show. That too is unfortunate, because story theatre techniques can be incredibly exciting, particularly for mixed audiences of the jaded and the unsophisticated. But, this...