Tom and Huck and Jim

Today, I went to see Tom and Huck and Jim at San Diego State University. This was a very good show and one that was a great tribute to the writer Mark Twain. Act 1 of the show was the story of Tom Sawyer and then Act 2 followed Huckleberry Finn with his story with Jim.

This play was a nice adventure with the characters from these books that included everything from singing to dancing. The actors that played these well known characters did a great job. The characterizations were phenomenal and each character created was different. The characters Huck and Tom, are younger characters, and the actors playing them did a great job getting the age across. This was achieved through use of voice, facial expression, and of course movement. These actors used a voice that sounded young, and used very big facial expressions and movements that are typical of a child.

What I really enjoyed was how while watching the show, I really felt that I was in the deep south. All of the actors used a southern dialect which I thought was both necessary for this show and very impressive. It built up the belief that the play was taking place in the south and that is where we, as an audience were going. Two of the characters that I thought were very creative characters were the characters of Doubletake and Topsy-Turvy. These are not real, concrete characters. These characters are more of the spirit of the book and tell the story rather than be characters in the story. These parts were probably exceptionally difficult for the actors. Since they were not solid characters, the actors had to create a spirit like character that was both physical but at the same time not a real character. These actors did a great job creating these abstract characters and I enjoyed these characters and how they told the story.

All of the characters in the show were great and very interesting to watch and I applaud every person in the cast for putting in so much work and creating such a phenomenal show.

On a side note, since I have not updated the blog recently, I'm just going to update you all on whats going on right now. Over the weekend I had another film shoot for a film. The shoot went great and I really enjoyed the experience and am very excited to see the final product. I'm soon gonna be called in to do the voiceovers for the film. Midsummer right now is also going great. We have a rehearsal tomorrow night and now that the blocking is over, we are going to be able to completely focus on characters.

Soon, I will be finishing up a play I am reading and post the review here. Well everybody talk to you soon,

Ryan