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Brian T. Finney, a graduate of Hendersonville High School, is making his mark as a writer and actor in Los Angeles.

About Finney's one-man stage adaptation of Joseph Conrad's “Heart of Darkness,” now playing at The Actors' Gang Theater in Culver City, Calif., Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times says, “His performance adapts a simmering tone that threatens to erupt into a full boil.” Another reviewer says of Finney, “He is Marlow, the narrator, the voyager.” Although the “Heart of Darkness” production became a reality only recently, the process of its creation, like most artistic endeavors, has come about slowly.

It began, Finney explains, with a personal commitment to read some of the classics he had missed in school. When he read Conrad's story of the ravages of corporate greed, he was struck by the novel's timeliness as well as Conrad's rich, vibrant language and sense of place.

“I first read ‘Heart of Darkness' around 10 y