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Guardian: Theatre should turn its back on blackface
[The Guardian] - It seems appropriate that, as he prepares for Othello, Lester is appearing in Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet, taking on the role of the pioneering African-American actor Ira Aldridge, who, at Covent Garden in London in 1833, took over the role of
Red Velvet brilliantly revives the lost story of black actor Ira Aldridge
metro.co.uk
[Metro] - The neglected story of pioneering black actor Ira Aldridge is given potent form in Lolita Chakrabarti's new play, which adroitly presents the debates raging on a 19th-century British stage as a microcosm of the larger world. Adrian Lester is
Red Velvet, Tricycle, London Damned by Despair, NT Olivier, London Loserville ...
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - As Lolita Chakrabarti's new play Red Velvet points up, the really stunning development, however, was the hiring of an African-American actor, Ira Aldridge, to step into Kean's revered shoes – even as British society was riven over the pending Abolition
Google News: Review: Red Velvet
[Jewish Chronicle] - When in Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, collapsed on stage while playing Othello at Covent Garden's Theatre Royal, the theatre's manager risked public outrage by hiring an African-American called Ira Aldridge – terrifically
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