Dawidziak boards Twain again

At my request, Plain Dealer and former Beacon Journal television critic Mark Dawidziak provided information about his next Mark Twain show, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15 at the Taylor Memorial Library, 2015 Third Street, Cuyahoga Falls. There is no charge to attend the 90-minute Largely Literary Company presentation.

Dawidziak adapts and directs the show and portrays Twain. His wife, Sara Showman, and Jason Davis also are in the cast. The Falls library is where Largely Literary gave its first performance, in 2002 – Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”

Dawidziak first portrayed Twain in one-man shows during the early 1980s in Tennessee and Virginia.

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The email from Dawidziak:

After a run of "Twain By Three" shows in Cleveland this summer, we're bringing our new three-person version of the Mark Twain show to Cuyahoga Falls for an Oct. 15 performance.

Hope you can use some of this. If nothing else, let several hundred friends know about this.

Library budgets are getting trashed left and right, as you know, and attendance at such events is one way for libraries to make their case.

Best, Mark

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For information, call (330) 928-2117.

To see photos of Dawidziak as Twain, and sketches by our Mark of the Missouri Mark, click on the headline.

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Also presenting storytelling programs for schools, the company recently premiered its one-act drama, “The Mystery of Dashiell Hammett,” as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read initiative. For bookings, contact Dawidziak and Showman at the Largely Literary Theater Company: (330) 923-8350 or hlgrouch@sbcglobal.net