Red Velvet
            
                Modern Plays
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781472582430
Description: Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor has been asked to take over the role. But as the public riot in the streets over the abolition of slavery, how will the cast, critics and audience react to the revolution taking place in the theatre? Lolita Chakrabarti's play creates imagined experiences based on the little-known, but true, story of Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor who, in the nineteenth century, built an incredible reputation on the stages of London and Europe.