RED VELVET
by Lolita Chakrabarti
directed by Alex Avila
Friday, January 16 @ 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 24 @ 2:00 pm

London, 1833. The trail-blazing black American actor Ira Aldridge has an offer to take over the role of Othello in the Covent Garden production.

“Chakrabarti has crafted a rich psychological study that’s also a shrewd portrait of the theatre as an institution — its vanities and strange conventions, its politics and sense of community, the opportunities it presents for both progress and blinkered traditionalism.” Evening Standard

This reading is a part of ISC Santa Fe's:
RELUME: The OTHELLO Impact Festival
Featuring four stellar plays with four different directors over two weekends in January, join us for illuminations of one of Shakespeare most controversial and difficult tragedies.

Red Velvet is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com