![]() He has edited anthologies for Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, including The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019 and the forthcoming Stage It and Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theater. His screenplays include the co-written Liner Notes (Woodstock Film Festival, feature length), Barflies (Horror Realm Con, short), and the forthcoming Escapism (post-production). He has been a Winner at the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights, a Semifinalist for the Princess Grace Foundation Award, and a Finalist for the Kernodle Playwriting Award. NYC 2004-2014, published by Original Works Publishing), and the short Green Sound (adapted into an audio drama by Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga also translated into Italian and performed in Milan). ![]() Bray's plays include Friendly’s Fire (World Premiere: Barter Theatre NYC: Rising Sun Performance Company directed by Anna Hogan published by Next Stage Press), Tracks (Semifinalist, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, Ashland New Play Festival), HOUND (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity), Goodnight Lovin’ Trail (produced in rep. JIM is beginning to waver.JOHN PATRICK BRAY (PLAYWRIGHT) John P. ![]() She talks awful, but talk don’t hurt-anyways it don’t if she don’t cry. She never licks anybody-whacks ‘em over the head with her thimble-and who cares for that, I’d like to know. She’ll thump me one if she finds out, Tom! You know that! She said Tom was gonna ask me to whitewash, and that I should just ignore you when you did. Aunt Polly told me to go fetch some water. Say, Jim, I’ll fetch the water if you wanna whitewash some.Ĭan’t, Tom. JIM enters with a bucket, headed to fetch water. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. There was a song in every heart and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. Finally paints a small swatch or two, very slowly, before sitting down on a bench or a stump, discouraged. He is carrying a bucket of white paint and two big brushes. Saturday morning was come, and all the summer was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. Lights down, except for a small light on MARK TWAIN. No buts! You’re going to paint that fence, whether you like it or not.ĪUNT POLLY storms off, followed soon after by TOM SAWYER, who looks defeated. As punishment for skipping school, yer going to have to paint that old picket fence tomorrow morning. Your hair’s sopping wet! You went swimmin’ instead of going to classes like a good boy, didn’t you? What’s the matter? I’m just getting back from school, Aunt Polly! Tom! Tom Sawyer! Git over here this instant! The rest of the cast, minus MARK TWAIN and AUNT POLLY, are walking in the same direction with school books and backpacks. He has skipped school to play hooky and go swimming. TOM SAWYER enters with wet hair and perhaps wet clothes. In this script, actual lines from the story are spoken by the Mark Twain character. But Tom, being the resourceful kid that he is, enlists the help of his friends by convincing them that it’s not work, it’s fun! The actual story from the book is included here after the end of the play. As a punishment, she demands that he spend his Saturday painting the fence. In the story, Tom is in trouble with his Aunt Polly. Originally a commercial failure the book ended up being the best-selling of any of Twain’s works during his lifetime. One such adventure, Tom’s whitewashing of a fence, has been adapted into paintings and referenced in other pieces of popular culture. In the novel Tom has several adventures, often with his friend, Huck. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
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