Friends, My first message to Twain-L. The best and most well-known of all one-person theatrical performances in my opinion is Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain. I saw it a couple of times on TV years ago, and I would say it is due for a repeat performance, on PBS at least. Does anyone know if it is on Videotape? I read that Holbrook knew the material so well that he changed the performance every time, adapting it to the response of the particular audience. This would mean that even if there is a video, it would only be one "take" on his remarkable performance. In 1970-71 (perhaps 72-73) in Jerusalem, I saw a performance of an actor who also did a Mark Twain long monologue. He was an American, and the performance was exciting. He was not as good an actor as Holbrook, but he did something audacious in the last part of the evening. He opened the performance to questions from the audience about events of today and answered the questions as Mark Twain. I don't remember if he used the actual words of Twain (all of Holbrook's performance is exact quotation from the Twain corpus) that he felt served as appropriate answers to the questions or if he improvised with what he felt Twain "would" have said. Does anyone know the name of the actor I am talking about and if he is still performing this piece? Joseph Lukinsky