Lolita Chakrabarti, who recently won Most Promising Playwright at the 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, first came across the story of Ira Aldridge in 1998, when her husband, Adrian Lester " who would later play the part of Aldridge in Chakrabarti’s play Red Velvet " did a reading about him. Aldridge was born in America [...]
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:03PM on January 12, 2013