Speak to Me As I Am - A Conversation with Ira Aldridge
From: Monday, 17th October 2011
To: Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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Synopsis
In this gripping and fascinating spoken word performance, Wyle confronts Ira - the two discuss the similarities in their lives, the racism and prejudice they have experienced, and the roles they have played.
Our Review:
18 October 2011
Wyllie Longmore is a respected actor, director and teacher. Billed as ‘presented by’ seems an almost flippant premise when, the spoken word event in the Studio, is a mesmerising performance which communicates the equal joy and disappointment that both he and Ira Aldridge felt at being marginalised black actors rather than actors.
Aldridge, born in 1807 is ‘the world’s most celebrated interpreters of Shakespeare’, and has a plaque dedicated to him in Stratford-upon-Avon but is now largely and criminally forgotten. Longmore’s mission, this evening, is to conjure up his memory, his talent, his absolute passion for the theatre and to ask how it felt.
The lines are often blurred between Longmore and Aldridge in Maureen Lawrence’s writing and this is no bad thing. In the beginning there are stories of Aldridge’s past; landing in Liverpool as a son of freed slaves in 1820, singing for his supper in bars, and moving to Londo...
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