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Set in 1991, Huckleberry Jim follows two actors—Axel Emerson, a twenty-two-year-old white actor fresh out of conservatory, and Moses Morton, a fifty-five-year-old Black actor with a lifetime of stages behind him—on a children's tour of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. As the two-man company performs Twain's text to American children in the year of Anita Hill, Rodney King's arrest, and the height of the culture wars, the road between them becomes a slow reckoning with race, performance, fatherhood, and what it costs to play another man's part.
