Today I might be Mark Twain. Some days I am Clarence Darrow, other days, John Barrymore, or Shakespeare, or Andrew Carnegie....
These shows were Broadway hits which I have performed for several years for audiences at retirement communities, schools, and community organizations throughout New England. Your group can enjoy them without the Brodway prices! I book six to eight months in advance and I look forward to performing for your organization soon.
Sincerely,
Richard W. Clark
Below are play descriptions for all of my six shows,
CLARENCE DARROW:
Great for Labor Day, Independence Day or Martin Luther King Day
This play features intense court room drama and comic relief as it highlights the life and times of Clarence Darrow, attorney extraordinaire and defender of the downtrodden and the damned. From his youthful innocence in small town Ohio to the embattled national stage of the ?Scopes Monkey Trial? and Leopold and Loeb court rooms it is a roller coaster ride into the heart and mind of a complex American hero
THE LUNATIC, THE LOVER AND THE POET
(SHAKESPEARE'S GREATEST HITS):
Celebrate Shakespeare?s birthday in the month of April
Come and share some of the most memorable moments in dramatic literature. Let your imagination sally forth with fabled kings as they ?mount barb?d steeds to fright the souls of fearsome adversaries.? Eavesdrop on the intimate murmuring of Romeo, the obsessive passions of Anthony and Cleopatra; the demented musings of King Richard as he broods over the love he will never have. Laugh with the fools. Cry with the afflicted. Dream with the poets. Beware the possessed! Don?t miss the essence of the world?s greatest wordsmith.
AND NOW MARK TWAIN!:
Appropriate any time especially warm months perfect for picnics & ice cream socials. Come and enjoy a visit with one of America?s best-loved writers and humorists. You will be treated to a compendium of his life and works, and laugh along with him at the foibles, follies and fantasies of a bygone era in America.
BARRYMORE!:
Liven up the dismal winter months of January through March.
Enjoy the life and times of the ?bad boy? actor of the early 20th century, John Barrymore. Have a rollicking good time as he takes us down memory lane to the era of the roaring 20?s and the 30?s. Join his audience at a rehearsal of his greatest performance as Shakespeare?s ?Richard III.?
LOVE LETTERS BY A.R. GURNEY:
Great for Valentine?s Day or any day
?Set in the WW II era this Broadway hit is a warm, poignant and humorous look at life and love told through a series of letters. The reading of these letters reveals complicated feelings and emotions, connections and a re-affirmation of the enduring value of friendship and love.
GREAT SCOT! IT'S ANDREW CARNEGIE!:
Ideal for Library celebrations or Carnegie?s Birthday in November
He rose from humble beginnings to become ?The King of Steel and the richest man in the world. He was called the ?greediest little devil that ever lived? yet gave away billions of dollars building thousands of libraries. He warred with labor yet passionately advocated world peace and counted Mark Twain, Helen Keller and Booker T Washington as his friends.
FEBRUARY
1st West Brookfield Public Library, Love Letters 6:30PM
15th Wincester Public Library, MA, Mark Twain 7:00PM
16th Raynham Public Library, MA, Love Letters 7:00PM
28th Westerly Public LIbrary, RI, Mark Twain 7;00PM
MARCH
9th Fiske Public Library, Wrentham, MA, Mark Twain 7:30PM
16th Bolyston Historical Society, MA, Mark Twain 7:30PM
22nd Douglas Library, Hebron, CT, Shakespeare, Time To Be Announced
23rd Byrum Schubert Public Library, Greenwich, CT, Mark Twain 7:00PM
29th Nichols College, Dudley, MA, Mark Twain, 7:00PM
30th Kingston Public Library, MA, Mark Twain 7:00PM