Hörspiele - Hoerspiele

Studio recordings of the best monologues from Richard Henzel’s one man play Mark Twain In Person.

Selections include the familiar and the rarely heard excerpts from Mark Twain’s writings, speeches, and private remarks mixed with improvisational moments as well.

Includes:

Whitewashing The Fence--Tom Sawyer learns a valuable lesson--from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;

Life As I Find It--Mark Twain's philosophy in a nutshell--from What Is Man?;  

Livy--Olivia Langdon Clemens--from Mark Twain’s Autobiography ;

The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut--Mark Twain battles his arch nemesis to the death--adapted from the short story;

The Skeeter Woman--an interesting fellow traveler--from Roughing It;

and The Private History of a Campaign that Failed--the "glory" of war--adapted from the short story.

Review:

Henzel's convincing portrayal of the author-lecturer at 71 is often disarming...(warm, witty recollections of teenage high jinks and the comically complicated courtship of his wife Livy)... and alarming (a perplexed account of feeling guilt after killing an enemy soldier during the Civil War, which leads into a tale about a fellow who literallly murders his own conscience).

The man in the white suit isn't just Mark Twain; he's every one of us who ever stifled shame as we turned away from a homeless panhandler or squelched misgivings as we celebrated the ruin of a rival.!

--Albert Williams, Chicago Reader (Critic's Choice)