The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge write by Glenda Armand. This book was released on 2019. The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ira Aldridge dreamed of being on stage, performing the great works of William Shakespeare. Through perseverance and determination, Ira became one of the most celebrated Shakespearean actors in Europe, and a public supporter of the abolitionist movement.
Ira's Shakespeare Dream
Ira's Shakespeare Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ira's Shakespeare Dream write by Glenda Armand. This book was released on 2015. Ira's Shakespeare Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A nonfiction biography chronicling the life of Ira Aldridge, an African American actor who overcame racism to become one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the nineteenth century.
Love Twelve Miles Long
Love Twelve Miles Long - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love Twelve Miles Long write by Glenda Armand. This book was released on 2011. Love Twelve Miles Long available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in the 1820s, this is the touching story of a slave who is separated from her son and walks 12 miles every night to see him. Beautifully illustrated and with lyrical text, Twelve Miles Long is a heart-warming story of the loving bond between mother and son. Frederick cannot understand why he can't live with his mother who is a slave on another plantation. But during her nighttime visits she reminds him what each mile of her journey is for: remembering, listening, praying, singing and finally, love.
Deep Are the Roots
Deep Are the Roots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deep Are the Roots write by Stephen Bourne. This book was released on 2021-10-07. Deep Are the Roots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain's first Black-led theatre company. In addition to providing a long-overdue critique of Laurence Olivier's Othello, Bourne has unearthed the forgotten story of Paul Molyneaux, a Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. The twentieth-century trailblazers include Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, Elisabeth Welch, Edric Connor and Pearl Connor-Mogotsi. There are chapters about the groundbreaking work of playwrights at the Royal Court, the first Black drama school students, pioneering theatre companies and three influential dramatists of the 1970s: Mustapha Matura, Michael Abbensetts and Alfred Fagon. Drawing on interviews with leading lights, here is everything you need to know about the trailblazers of Black theatre in Britain and their profound influence on the culture of today.
Red Velvet
Red Velvet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Velvet write by Lolita Chakrabarti. This book was released on 2014-03-19. Red Velvet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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? 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. Red Velvet received its world premiere at the Tricycle Theatre, London, on 11 October 2012, starring Adrian Lester as Ira Aldridge. It was revived at the Tricycle Theatre on 23 January 2014, before transferring to St Ann's Warehouse, New York, on 25 March 2014. This second edition includes the revisions made to the script for the 2014 revival of the play. It also features contextual articles by Lolita Chakrabarti about the real Ira Aldridge, and a piece by Professor Ayanna Thompson about the significance of Aldridge's erasure from standard theatre history and the importance of the play in this regard.
