Mark Twain's charming, humorous, and heartwarming "Extracts from Adam's Diary" and "Eve's Diary," are woven together here (including substantial original material by Norman Kolpas) into a 30-minute one-act play that was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1975. Now adapted into a stage play, it is ideal for brief shows, staged readings, drama competitions, or one-act festival performances by high school, university, amateur, or professional performances. Although this original version of Twain's classic work will come to life onstage, it can also be read and enjoyed on the eBook page, and makes a wonderful gift for a loved one or friend.
The play constitutes a unique work for the following reasons:
• Co-author Norman Kolpas thoroughly dismantled two separately published out-of-copyright Twain works, "Extracts from Adam's Diary" and "Eve's Diary," and wove them together into an entirely new format and structure, as a series of 10 dramatic scenes that work as a one-act, 30-minute-long play.
• Because there isn't significant overlap between the scenes described in the two separate works, this process required substantial original writing by Kolpas, who often imagined and wrote responses by one character or the other to Twain's original words—and, in some cases, entire new incidents or scenes.
• In 1975, the British Broadcasting Company recognized Kolpas's original radio play, further adapted here as a stage play, as his original copyrighted work.