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Ira Aldridge: Actor, Activist and Record-breaker

Ridiculous History

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The Power of Theatre

Aldridge experienced the prejudice and horrible kind of remnants of slavery an the attitude towards a black people in the united states and in england. He has plenty of first hand accounts. Theatres protest. I love this because so good, ye s good. It it's an excellent way to to just an captulate the power of theatre, which sometimes sounds pretentious, but it is a real thing. And i think that becomes like, increasingly important to him, even more so as time goes on.

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