Barbican Young Poets 2019-20
Antonia Jade King
'Ira Aldridge reads a review of his latest performance'
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Ira Aldridge reads a review of his latest performance
to see that the critic has called it surprising. They were particularly shocked by the
way Aldridge navigated the most difficult passages of script. Ira thinks this ironic; he
always finds the difficult passages the easiest to perform well, muscle memory,
maybe. Another critic thought Aldridge would struggle with English words due to the
shape of his lips. This is sometime before he plays King Lear, carefully painted white
everywhere but his hands. Ira will be loved, eventually, a state funeral level of
adoration. They will even like his voice once they know he will not adlib, that he will
handle the difficult passages of English text in an acceptable fashion.
About Antonia Jade King
Antonia Jade King is one of the hosts of Boomerang Club, and a previous Hammer & Tongue finalist. She has featured at Poetry and Shaah and Heaux Noire and was part of Apples and Snakes Writing Room programme in 2018. She has performed at numerous events including Love Supreme festival and Rallying Cry at Battersea Arts Centre. She is currently a Barbican Young Poet and her debut pamphlet 'She Too Is a Sailor' is out with Bad Betty Press.
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