Red Velvet

by Lolita Chakrabarti

Book Overview

Red Velvet is about the nineteenth century black American actor Ira Aldridge. In a theatre dressing room in Poland an elderly and sick Aldridge prepares to play King Lear. The intrusion of a young female journalist forces him to look back on the defining moment of his illustrious career. Thirty years previously Edmund Kean one of the greatest actors of his generation collapses on the Theatre Royal stage in London and Pierre Laporte theatre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0573703221
• ISBN13: 9780573703225
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"