Reports
Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabartimentored pupils from two very different
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In 2012...Lolita Chakrabarti's play Red Velvet as the African American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge opened at the Kilburn Tricycle Theatre. Adrian Lester played Aldridge. In 2013...Adrian Lester is playing Othello at the National Theatre, and in July 2013 in Coventry he received an honorary degree from Warwick University. He told The mastercopy: "I was never taught anything about Ira, and it is a very personal thing that annoys me, and as an actor it annoys me. The tragedy that I was never taught anything about the positive contributions he made, someone who looks and sounds like myself, on this country is upsetting because you are shown no examples of the height to which you can reach. . . . He played at the Bolshoi Theatre and sold it out with a Shakespeare performance."
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