Garrick, LondonLolita Chakrabarti's powerful play about the 19th-century African American actor Ira Aldridge is now where it should be…In 1833 the African American actor Ira Aldridge took over the part of Othello at Covent Garden. Most of his fellow actors patronised him. The critics did not so much review his performance as hound him: "His features, though African, are considerably humanised." The management took …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:19AM on February 7, 2016