Do You Need to Read The Confidence Man?
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Do You Need to Read The Confidence Man?
Written and performed by Melville descendant Elizabeth Doss
Fri - Sun, June 26 - 28 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Three Performances - Three Nights
Performer, playwright and descendent of Herman Melville, Elizabeth Doss “talks back” to THE CONFIDENCE MAN, the last novel Melville published in his lifetime. Set on a steamboat cruising down Mississippi, Doss jumps aboard, probing this text to grapple with her own encounters with “Confidence Men”, not to mention her own flagging confidence, and what in the world Melville is really getting at in his strangest and most provocatively perplexing text.
Still in its larval stage, Doss asks, “Do you need to read THE CONFIDENCE MAN?”, or does it deserve its obscurity? This solo performance (hopefully) offers a mixture of insight, ignorance and some stabs at hilarity. Come cheer her on (or boo her off) for three consecutive nights only at the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Cover image: James Bard, The Steamboat “Peter Crary,” (1858)
Written and performed by Melville descendant Elizabeth Doss
Fri - Sun, June 26 - 28 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Three Performances - Three Nights
Performer, playwright and descendent of Herman Melville, Elizabeth Doss “talks back” to THE CONFIDENCE MAN, the last novel Melville published in his lifetime. Set on a steamboat cruising down Mississippi, Doss jumps aboard, probing this text to grapple with her own encounters with “Confidence Men”, not to mention her own flagging confidence, and what in the world Melville is really getting at in his strangest and most provocatively perplexing text.
Still in its larval stage, Doss asks, “Do you need to read THE CONFIDENCE MAN?”, or does it deserve its obscurity? This solo performance (hopefully) offers a mixture of insight, ignorance and some stabs at hilarity. Come cheer her on (or boo her off) for three consecutive nights only at the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Cover image: James Bard, The Steamboat “Peter Crary,” (1858)
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Where is it happening?
2310 San Gabriel St, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78705
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Host or PublisherNeill-Cochran House Museum
