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Debut Performan of Ron Powers Play "Ssm and Laura"....Mark Twain Festival
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Friday, October 15th
Bret Harte Theater, Angels Camp
7pm - Debut performance of Ron Powers’ new play about Samuel Clemens, “Sam and Laura” – presented by the University of Missouri Drama Department. Powers is the author of the 2005 biography of Mark Twain, “Mark Twain: a Life” and of other works centering on Clemens and on Hannibal, Missouri, where both Powers and Sam Clemens spent their childhoods. Powers also is the co-author of the acclaimed work, “Flags of Our Fathers.”
“Sam and Laura” is based on a true story from Clemen’s life, according to Powers, who discovered its essence while researching the biography. It centers on a lifelong infatuation Twain developed over a young girl he met while working as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. “‘Sam and Laura’ is a commemorative play for this century, and it is also a play as timeless as are dreams, love, loss and yearning,” he writes.
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10/15/2010
Starts at 07:00 PM
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