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Red Velvet
By Lolita Chakrabarti
World Premiere
Join us for a special fundraising performance of Red Velvet & post show reception on Saturday 24 November at 8pm
As well as a seat for the performance, your ticket will also include: a pre-show reception at 7.15pm with writer Lolita Chakrabarti & Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham; a complimentary glass of wine; and a script signed by the playwright.
Tickets: £100 per person (includes £80 voluntary donation towards the creative development fund and the artistic programme)
(Book for this performance as well as a ticket for each of the other three productions this season and get 20% off)
“It’s like being at a crossroads – a point of absolute, unequivocal change.
It makes the blood rush.”
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?
Imagined experiences based on the true story of Ira Aldridge.
‘A layered and revealing play, superbly acted’ The Independent on Sunday
‘What an incisive, fervent beginning…Rubasingham’s production glows’
A slice of theatrical and racial history combines to make a really great night out.
It’s a cracker of a play: gripping, intelligent and passionate, delivered with wit and vigour by a fine ensemble… A great curtain raiser.
Rubasingham’s production, with its blend of permanently visible actors and 19th-century footlights, shrewdly underscores Chakrabarti’s point that theatre is forever upset by the shock of the new.
Fiery and funny in equal measure.
An arresting and sometimes very funny play, cogently performed, appealingly designed, and neatly directed by Rubasingham herself.
Lester’s Aldridge is wonderfully stirring.
Lester beautifully captures the pained dignity and irritation of the ageing, ailing actor.
Click here to view the preview trailer