Red Velvet Tickets

To say that he was a revolutionary does not do Ira Aldridge justice. It was a rich, behind-the-scenes, history lesson for me. It was also very sad because it's too similar to the postmodernist lens of the present as you compare it to the past. You could tell that the audience was moved (girl next to me cried at the end!) because it wasn't a new story for my young generation to witness... one day we will learn!