by Scott Kaiser
Produced by People’s Light and Theatre Company
Directed by Jade King Carroll
Stage Managed by Charles T. Brastow
Lighting by Denis Parichy
Costumes by Marla Jurganlis
Sound by Vincent Olivieri
Music Directed by Vince de Mura
Cast:
Susan Mckey as Huck
John Douglas Thompson as Jim / Frederick Douglass
Cathy Simpson as Various Roles
Christopher Patrick Mullen as Various Roles
“The show’s most outstanding feature..to my nine-year-old companion is the set: a pair of wooden decks that curve like riverbanks on either side of an actual waterway. Huck and Jim dip their toes, paddle… and laze among the hanging sphagnum.” —-Wendy Rosenfeld, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 14, 2007. Click here for the full review
“Another staple of the (amazing) set is the abundance of uses it serves. At one instance Jim could be standing on a plank of wood symbolizing a dock or a bridge, but quickly the wood could lift and serve for a bed or a hidden chamber. The transformations …help to take the audience up and down the Mississippi River.” —- Brian Fitzpatrick, Montgomery Newspapers, May 23, 2007. Click here for the full review.
“Director Jade King Carroll's involving production boasts Arthur Rotch's marvelous Mississippi River representation in the tiny Steinbright Theatre (the play's best moments occur on Huck and Jim's bobbing raft), lit delicately by Dennis Parichy.” —- Mark Cofta, Philadelphia City Paper, May, 2007. Click here for the full review.