Performances September – October 2023

Poster Design By Pennsylvania Artist Sarah Knox

A MARK TWAIN HALLOWEEN –

Come and hear spooky tales of ghosts, witches, and spirits with Mark Twain’s unique view of the supernatural – “Besides scaring off witches, witch balls also ward off the evil eye, and evil spirits, and bad luck.  But it will do nothing for warts.  To cure warts, you need a dead rat and a grave-yard at midnight.”

Other authors, like Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson, wrote about haunted houses in The Fall of the House of Usher and The Haunting of Hill House while Twain tells a tale of a haunted barrel in Huck Finn.

Professional actor, Ray Carver plays Mark Twain.  Critics say of his performance “It seems as though time has been suspended – that could be the drawling Mark Twain up there on stage, reeling off his one-liners and holding the audience in his spell.”  Carver’s work at the Minnesota Festival Theater was called ‘impressive”.  Carver’s scripts of Twain’s “Life On The Mississippi”, “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” and “Mark Twain’s Civil War” are part of the collection at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home Museum in Hannibal, Missouri. 

“A MARK TWAIN HALLOWEEN” PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

GETTYSBURG, PA. Area

Saturday September 16 @ 7p.m. 

This performance is at Zion United Church of Christ -22 Gettysburg Street – Arendtsville, PA.

Zion UCC is hosting “A Mark Twain Halloween” as a benefit performance for the Adams County ASPCA

TICKET PRICES & RESERVATIONS for 9/16 PERFORMANCE 

Zion UCC believes the arts are for everyone and practices radical hospitality – All tickets are Pay What You Can – $1, $5, $10, $20 or more – each audience member decides their own ticket price – all proceeds will go to the Adams County SPCA in memory of Twain’s cat, Bambino.  For tickets, call the church at 717-677-8319 or reserve tickets at 3pennyplays@gmail.com.

Mark Twain’s cat Bambino

Courtesy of twainquotes.com

RICHMOND, VA.

Friday October 20 @ 7p.m.

Saturday October 21 @ 2 & 7p.m.  

All Richmond, VA. performances are at the Gayton Kirk — 11421 Gayton Road — in Richmond’s Far West End.

3 Penny Theatre’s Richmond Ticket Policy

3 Penny Theatre believes the arts are for everyone and Practices Radical Hospitality – All tickets are Pay What You Can – $1, $5, $10, $20 or more – Each audience member decides their own ticket price.

To Reserve Tickets For Any Performance of “A MARK TWAIN HALLOWEEN” Click Here: Reserving Tickets Information

“A Mark Twain Halloween” originally began as an online video presentation during the Covid pandemic. Above is the artwork publicizing this online event.