Word: runaways
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...picaresque ramblings of Huck (Daniel Jenkins), who runs away from the enslavements of civilization, and his friend Jim (Ron Richardson), a literal runaway slave, have been pared into a purposeful narrative without diminishing the aura of spontaneity. William Hauptman's book also sustains Twain's deeper exploration of how a society could view slavery as normal and regard assisting a runaway as a crime against property. The story starts slowly and wobbles in tone, but achieves the original's deft mix of social comment, slapstick farce, heartrending melodrama and boy's own tale of danger. Big River, which started...
...ROUGH AND SCARRING LIFE being a runaway, constantly full of troubles and drama But the Currier House production of Runaways tells us more about the problems of staging this play at Harvard than about the lives of any street kids. Runaways shoots for realism--harsh and stark and jolting this staging, for all the evident work and earnestness, never quite makes...
...college of songs and monologues, Runaways originated in 1975 as a collaboration between author composer-director Elizabeth Swado, and actual runaways or "problem" children many of whom eventually appeared in the New York production. Swados--and the cast-succeeded in conveying the distinctive power of their perspectives and stories, but such an approach remains hard to transfer to a production by students, especially those restricted in both time and experience. The script does not develop the characters; it assumes their previous formation, and the actors in this production seem forced to bear their souls on cue, drawing on little consonant...
...statements less heavy-handedly in a song like "The Undiscovered Son," a comic and lonely fantasy about being the unknown child of various famous and pseudo-famous people. As Eddie, Jay Winthrop sings well and does a fine job of fusing the hope and resiliency so vital to a runaway's survival...
...World Bank afterward, but he is still remembered as the Secretary of Defense who calibrated America's growing involvement. Others were caught in the national spotlight for an awkward instant and have been trying to live it down ever since. Mary Ann Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway from Florida captured by a photographer as she knelt in anguish over a dead student on the Kent State campus in 1970. For years her wanderings and missteps made news. Now married, she works as a bus girl in a Las Vegas casino...