Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Mark Twain wrote the first part, "The Diary of Adam" during the 1890s when he was 55 years old. His own fortunes had begun to fail and the health of his wife was beginning to fail.

"The Diary of Eve" was written almost fifteen years later shortly after the death of his wife. Twain was seventy and had outlived three of his four children. The tone of Eve's diary is quite different than the earlier work.

David Birney has taken these two stories, from different times in Twain's life, and combined them. Heard together, at the same time, they provide us with a remarkable love story. It is a portrait of two very unusual people, those first "lovers" who meet under the most unlikely circumstances, that first garden, and what they make together over a lifetime of discovery.

Performances will be on January 22, 23, 24 at 8 pm and January 25 at 2 pm. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students.

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