Do You Need to Read THE CONFIDENCE MAN?
by Paper Chairs
Oct. 02 - Oct. 04
Friday-Sunday
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 on earth 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 nights only at the The Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Direction & Dramaturgy by Kristen Osborn
Additional direction by Diana Lynn Small
Do You Need to Read THE CONFIDENCE MAN?
by Elizabeth Dosss
Paper Chairs
October 02 - October 04, 2026
Oct. 2, 3 & 4 at 7 p.m.
Neill-Cochran House Museum
Doors & Drinks at 6:30 p.m.
For tickets & info: nchmuseum.org/events
Seating is Limited so Advance Ticket Purchases are Recommended