June 26, 2009

Twain-inspired drama finds life on the Hudson River

A retired U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse tender will serve as the stage next month for a staging of a Mark Twain-inspired play “The Report of My Death.”

The one-man docudrama by Adam Klasfeld draws out a “darker and more political” Twain, as portrayed on stage by actor Michael Graves.

The venue will be the Lilac Steamship, docked at Pier 40 in the Hudson River where Houston Street meets the West Side Highway. The Lilac, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, served as a lighthouse tender for the U.S. Lighthouse Service from 1933 until 1939 and then as a buoy tender until 1972. She is the last unaltered steam propelled and steam hoisting lighthouse tender.

The play will run from July 22 through August 15, with performances scheduled Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $18, according to Playbill.

Image source: Lilac in Philadelphia in 1939, from the Early Years gallery at the Lilac Preservation Project.

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