R-Rated Twain at Hole in the Wall Theater

On August 5th and 6th, The Mark Twain House & Museum will heat up New Britain with R-Rated Twain, featuring some of Mark Twain’s spiciest and shocking works. Included in the naughty hilarity will be a short play Mark Twain: Ladies Man by West Hartford playwright David Ryan Polgar.

The “adults-only” readings will be performed by Sea Tea Improv and are directed by Twain House Communications Manager Jacques Lamarre.

The show will ta...ke the audience through the naughtiest puns, poems, parodies, and passages that Mark Twain wrote. Suffice to say the material covered by Twain in these writings is not suitable for most publications, family audiences or polite society.

There will also be hilariously biting take-downs of Twain’s enemies culled from the recently published, bestselling Autobiography of Mark Twain. As Twain said, “There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined,” so the historic house is looking forward to letting its hair down and introducing the public to these hysterical and deliciously deviant lesser-known works.

David Ryan Polgar’s short comedy Mark Twain: Ladies Man resurrects “The Lincoln of our Literature” in a modern pick-up bar. Brought back from the dead in order to access his legendary library of one-liners, Twain acts as a “wing-man” for a socially inept single guy desperately seeking love. The comedy, featuring dozens of Twain’s best-loved quips, will feature Michael Eck, Liza Pross and Dan Russell. Polgar is the author of the short play Some Kind of Modern Love which was premiered by the Connecticut Heritage Productions and has since been expanded to a full-length play that received a reading at the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, CT.

The show’s performers are all members of Sea Tea Improv. The troupe of eleven players, trained by Hartford Stage Company and the Upright Citizens Brigade, dazzles Hartford and beyond on a regular basis with witty, raucous interpretations of audience suggestions a la Whose Line is it Anyway? Besides their monthly packed houses at the Brew-Ha-Ha, Sea Tea Improv has performed in illustrious locations such as the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Connecticut Forum, the Funnybone, the Science Center, the Hartford Stage and Playhouse on Park. Sea Tea was an official selection of the Providence Improv Festival and has been featured on WNPR’s Colin McEnroe Show, ESPN, Better Connecticut, Mass Appeal, and Connecticut Style.

Hole in the Wall Theater is located at 116 Main Street, New Britain, CT. For more information, please visit our website at www.hitw.org.

Tickets are $15.00
Tickets are available at the Box Office at the time of the show.
Cash, Checks, VISA and Mastercard accepted.
For General information call: (860) 223-9665