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"The Mark Twain Show was outstanding and very appropriate for the age group."

Eaton Community Arts Council
Eaton, OH


Great Play for Middle Schools! High comedy contrasts with poignant drama! Principals and teachers love the educational tie-in to American Literature and American History!


"Enjoyed by young and old alike, don't miss The Mark Twain Show!"

The Fayette Review, Fulton County OH


"The students were mesmerized, they hated to leave the theatre!"

The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ


 Small Cast One Act Children's Plays - The Mark Twain Show

Plays for Middle Schools! The Teenage Cast of Tyler Texas Civic Theatre Troupe toured The Mark Twain Show in 2008 and took it to the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland! Congrats Tyler Troupers!


 One Act Play for Schools and Theatres -- The Mark Twain Show

Plays for Middle Schools! Great Roles For Kids to Play! Adam & Eve Scene.


Plays for Middle Schools! Producers, this One Act Play was written especially for touring theatre and in-school performances.


  One Act Play for Schools and Theatres -- The Mark Twain Show

Plays for Middle Schools! Tyler Students Set Up for Tom Sawyer Scene. All scenes set up onstage, moving non-stop for fast-paced show!


 

 

 

Script for Young People to Perform! The Mark Twain Show Plays for Teenagers!
One Act Play for Schools and Theatres!

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Cast List
CD Soundtrack Cues
Script Sample


THE MARK TWAIN SHOW
CAST LIST
Running Time: About 35-40 minutes
Flexible cast of 3, 2 Male, 1 Female
Easily adapted for larger cast

ACTOR 1: (M)
Plays MARK TWAIN, BEN ROGERS, KING HUBERT, COLONEL SHERBURN; also acts as NARRATOR.

ACTOR 2: (F)
Plays HARRIETTE THE REPORTER, JESS, PEASANT MAID, EVE; also acts as NARRATOR.

ACTOR 3: (M)
Plays MARK TWAIN, TOM SAWYER, DONKEY, ADAM, BOGGS; also acts as NARRATOR.


Great Fun Script For Teens & Kids!
One Act Play for Schools and Theatres -- The Mark Twain Show One Act Play for Schools and Theatres -- The Mark Twain Show
Comic Satire Sagenfeld!  Scene from Adam and Eve!
Tryon Fine Arts Center, High School Performers


THE MARK TWAIN SHOW
CD SOUNDTRACK CUES
Cues, sound effects, original background music

The CD Soundtrack contains special sound effects and background music (original music written for the play) that may be used to greatly enhance the performance. It does not contain music for the performers to sing along with. Cues have 10 seconds of silence at the end - times shown below include silence.

1.  FLOURISH  (0:24)

2.  LAZY SUMMER MUSIC  (1:00)

3.  STEAMBOAT SOUNDS  (0:32)

4.  LAZY, TOM SAWYER CLOSE  (0:53)

5.  SAGANFELD OPENING, MUSIC  (0:44)

6.  FLOURISH, SAGANFELD CLOSE  (0:27)

7.  VOICE OF GOD, NIAGRA FALLS  (1:07)

8.  HUCK FINN OPENING  (1:16)

9.  BOGGS SCENE  (1:01) 

10.  HUCK FINN CLOSE  (0:49)

11.  COMET, TWAIN CLOSE  (1:20) 

Note: Some teachers choose familiar songs, obtain sheet music and insert these songs into the play.  We recognize that each school has a wide variety of educational needs to fulfill and we invite you to be creative in your use of our scripts; including changes or additions that are appropriate for your students. As author/publisher of our own creative works, we do ask that you obtain proper copyright permission for any additions you might make - that responsibility is up to you.

Music & Sound Resources Available on the Internet
( Sheet Music, Song Books, CDs, DVDs, Sing-along, Karaoke, Sound Effects )

The Mark Twain Show's Talented Young Cast!
One Act Play for Schools and Theatres -- The Mark Twain Show
Tyler Texas Civic Theatre Troupe, The Mark Twain Show
The cast may be easily enlarged to a Large Cast!


THE MARK TWAIN SHOW
SCRIPT SAMPLE

The Mark Twain Show contains many scenes from the author's work.  Some are High comedy and others are quite dramatic.  Here's a scene you might find familiar, from Tom Sawyer...

ACTOR 2: (Reads.) "Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life." (Moves around STAGE and gestures as the action she describes takes place. To AUDIENCE.) Tom Sawyer appeared on the sidewalk... (ACTOR 3 appears as TOM.) ...with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. (ACTOR 1 hands him these things, then EXITS.) He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him.

ACTOR 3/TOM: Thirty yards of fence! Betcha it’s nine feet high. (Does the following as ACTOR 2 speaks following lines.)

ACTOR 2: (To AUDIENCE.) Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank, repeated the operation, then sat down on a tree-box, discouraged.

(ACTOR 2 EXITS to become JESSICA.)

TOM: (Groans and drops his brush in the bucket, then sits with his head in his hands.) Aw, shucks.

ACTOR 2/JESS: (ACTOR 2 has become JESS by putting on a cap. She too has a bucket. ENTERS singing.) Buffalo Gals, won’cha come out tonight? Come out tonight! Come out tonight! Oh, Buffalo Gals, won’cha come out tonight and dance by the light of the moooon?

TOM: Say, uh, Jess...

JESS: (Smiles, coquettish.) Yeah, Tom?

TOM: I’ll fetch the water for ya if you’ll whitewash some.

JESS: (Shakes her head.) Can’t, Tom. Aunt Polly, she told me to go and get this water and not to stop to fool around with anybody. She says she expected Tom was going to ask me to whitewash some, and so she told me to go along and tend to my own business.

TOM: Oh, never mind what she said. That’s the way she always talks. Gimme the bucket. I won’t be gone only a minute. She won’t ever know.

JESS: Oh, I better not, Tom. Aunt Polly, she’d tear my head off a me. Indeed she would!

TOM: Aw! She never licks anybody. Whacks ’em over the head with her thimble—and who cares for that, I’d like to know. She talks awful, but her talk don’t hurt.

JESS: But, Tom, I’m powerful afraid of Aunt Polly. (They have a tug of war over the bucket.)

TOM: (Gives up. Thinks.) If you let me fetch the water, I’ll show you my sore toe.

ACTOR 1: (ENTERS. To AUDIENCE.) Well, Jess was only human, and this attraction was too much for her. (TOM starts to take off his shoe. Both huddle over the toe. JESS is very interested. Still huddled over, speaks as Aunt Polly, in falsetto.) Tom! Thomas! (EXITS to become BEN.)

TOM: (Looks up, startled. Looks off as if he "sees" Aunt Polly in the distance.) Oh!

JESS: (As if to the unseen Aunt Polly.) Oh, how dee do, Miss Polly. I was just&ldots; just...

(JESS Runs OFF in fear. TOM smiles falsely and waves to the unseen Aunt Polly, following her as she "passes by," pretending to be working very hard. When she has gone, he sits on the cube and throws his brush in the bucket again and groans.)

ACTOR 2/NARRATOR: (ENTERS as NARRATOR again, carrying a triangle or a small bell. To AUDIENCE.) Tom tried again, but his energy did not last. He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day, and his sorrows multiplied. At this dark and hopeless moment an inspiration burst upon him... (Hits a triangle "ding" as TOM’S face suddenly brightens with an idea.) Nothing less than a great, magnificent inspiration! (TOM’S energy is renewed as he paints again. Now he works happily. Soon ACTOR 1 ENTERS up the aisle from the AUDIENCE, carrying an apple.) Presently, Ben Rogers hove into sight. The very boy of all boys, whose ridicule Tom had been dreading.

           (ACTOR 1/BEN enters, chomping on an apple.)

ACTOR 1/BEN:  Hi-ya! You’re up a stump, ain’t you! (TOM continues to act as if he is enjoying himself, humming happily. Sees BEN’S juicy apple but doesn’t let BEN notice.) Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?

TOM: (Pretends not to have noticed BEN until now.) Why, it’s you, Ben! I warn’t noticing.

BEN: (Shows off.) Say, I’m going in a-swimming, I am. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work—wouldn’t you? ’Course you would!

TOM: What do you call work?

BEN: (Dull.) Why, ain’t that work?

TOM: Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain’t. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer.

BEN: Oh, come now, you don’t mean to let on that you like it?

TOM: (Continues to brush enthusiastically.) Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?

BEN: (Watches TOM earnestly, nibbling his apple and trying to get this straight. He considers, then speaks.) Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.

TOM: (Considers but shakes his head.) No. No, I reckon it wouldn’t do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly’s awful particular about this fence. It’s got to be done very careful. I reckon there ain’t one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it’s got to be done.

BEN: Is that so? Oh, come on now, lemme just try. Only just a little. I’d let you, if you was me, Tom.

TOM: Ben, I’d like to, honest. But, Aunt Polly—well, Jess wanted to do it, and she wouldn’t let her. Now, don’t you see how I’m fixed? If you was to tackle this fence, and if anything was to happen to it—

BEN: Oh, shucks, I’ll be just as careful. Now lemme try. Say, I’ll give you the core of my apple.

TOM: (Acts reluctant.) Well... here... (Starts to hand brush but pulls it back.) No, Ben, now don’t. I’m afeard...

BEN: I’ll give you all my apple!

TOM: (Hides his smile.) Well, okay.

(MUSIC that introduced the scene is heard as ACTOR 2 narrates. TOM has lovely time munching away as BEN works.)

Note: This is a sample from the actual script.  To review the entire play, order the PERUSAL SCRIPT (online instant download).


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