The Adventures of ~Huckleberry~ Jim is a theatrical epic that follows Jim, a secondary character in Mark Twain’s novel, ’The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and his vantage on their travels down the Mississippi River. Using the frame of a church revival, the play utilizes lost sections from Mark Twain’s original text (cut by the original editors), along with a bevy of other media sources including Shakespeare...
The Adventures of ~Huckleberry~ Jim is a theatrical epic that follows Jim, a secondary character in Mark Twain’s novel, ’The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and his vantage on their travels down the Mississippi River. Using the frame of a church revival, the play utilizes lost sections from Mark Twain’s original text (cut by the original editors), along with a bevy of other media sources including Shakespeare, Rap / R&B, and other essays and short stories by Clemens. Jim’s daughter, Elizabeth, narrates the story, introducing us to a litany of characters from the text such as Huckleberry Finn, Miss Watson, Tom Sawyer and lesser known players like Jim’s wife Sadie (unnamed in the novel) and his son, Johnny. What starts as a relatively accurate retelling of the events in Huckleberry Finn soon evolves into a wild theatrical hodgepodge of spectacle, including a minstrel show, a dance with Da Devil, a daring escape down the Mississippi and an appearance from Gawd Hersself.