The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge

The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge
Title The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge PDF eBook
Author Glenda Armand
Publisher Story of
Pages 40
Release 2019
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781643790084

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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
Title Ira's Shakespeare Dream PDF eBook
Author Glenda Armand
Publisher Lee & Low Books
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781620141557

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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.

Deep Are the Roots

Deep Are the Roots
Title Deep Are the Roots PDF eBook
Author Stephen Bourne
Publisher The History Press
Pages 197
Release 2021-10-07
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0750999101

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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.

Love Twelve Miles Long

Love Twelve Miles Long
Title Love Twelve Miles Long PDF eBook
Author Glenda Armand
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Children's stories
ISBN 9781600602450

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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.

Red Velvet

Red Velvet
Title Red Velvet PDF eBook
Author Lolita Chakrabarti
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 138
Release 2014-03-19
Genre Drama
ISBN 1472582446

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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.

The Lion of the West and the Bucktails

The Lion of the West and the Bucktails
Title The Lion of the West and the Bucktails PDF eBook
Author James Kirke Paulding
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 164
Release 2003
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780742534018

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The Bucktails turns British disdain for their crude, uncivilized former colonists against the effete representatives of the Old Order. The Lion of the West, written more than a decade and a half later, not only scored a great popular success on both sides of the Atlantic but also supplied a template for the conventional portrait of the Westerner and for the humor of the Old South West.

Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius

Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius
Title Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius PDF eBook
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Pages 28
Release 1850
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