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Red Velvet, Ira Aldridge & the problems and possibilities of Othello

Posted on 3 February 202319 August 2024 by Marlis Schweitzer

My field notes today are exactly that, paragraphs shaped from rough notes made after attending the December 1, 2022 performance of Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet directed by Cherissa Richards at Crow’s Theatre.  Set primarily in 1830s London, bookended by scenes set in 1860s Lodz, Red Velvet stages the encounter between Continue Reading

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