Huck

Synopsis

Huck, an outcast teenager and Jim, a runaway slave, are fleeing down the Mississippi on their makeshift raft. Adventures grow wilder, stories taller, and the people they meet more outlandish as they journey through a young America, searching for freedoms without and freedoms within. Age 8+

Our Review:

11 May 2010

The Southwark Playhouse is a fantastic venue, almost like an extension of its neighbour, the London Dungeon, with exposed brickwork, red satin drapery and the trains rumbling overhead.

For this production, one enters the auditorium to the atmospheric sound of lapping water. Garance Marneur’s striking set dominates the space. An ingenious concoction, it depicts an old pier which, in the designer’s words, is intended to “represent the element of transition between the river and the land”. Marneur certainly achieves his aim: as the action ensues, the set almost becomes a character in its own right, adapting fluidly to the fast-paced action of the piece.

My memories of Huckleberry Finn are happy childhood ones. I read Mark Twain’s novels at an early age and spent many a contented tea-time enjoying episodes of the Canadian 1980s television series starring Ian Tracey and Sammy Snyders. What I failed to acknowledge as a young child were Twain...

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