The impossible man
Subtitle: work-in-progress performance about Ira Aldridge : musings on archives
By: by Tracie Morris
Series: Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts
Publisher: Harvard Book Store
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: African American actors; Archival resources; Performance art
Description: "This small book is a personal account of Tracie Morris' development of her performance work-in-progress, The Impossible Man, about the legendary slavery-era African-American Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge. In this engaging essay, Morris, a experimental poet, scholar and performer discusses how her research of rare books and manuscripts at Houghton Library, and other archives, lead to her to the innovative staged theatrical production about Aldridge's legacy, and his daughter composer Amanda Aldridge (a.k.a. Montague Ring). This book was created for the work-in-progress presentation of The Impossible Man at Harvard's Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center"--Publisher's website
Notes: "Signed limited edition copy for the performance at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, Harvard University, March 14, 2019"--Title page verso

"This small commentary/notation is specifically for folks who have attended the work-in-progress of The impossible man at the Smith Center at Harvard, the prototype of the show that I performed at the Poets' Theater Festival for the Iowa Writers' Workshop co-sponsored event at the University of Iowa ..."--Brief introduction

Gift; Tracie Morris; 2019 March 14; 2022P-43.

Inscribed on title page: "To the Woodberry Poetry Room with hugs, Tracie. August 2019. First visit as WPR Fellow, 2018-2019."

Printed on-demand at the Harvard Book Store; in prefab case, 28 cm.