Red Velvet is a 2012 play by Lolita Chakrabarti, dealing with the biography of a 19th century actor born in which year ?
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Red Velvet (play) Red Velvet is a 2012 play by Lolita Chakrabarti, dealing with the biography of the 19th century actor Ira Aldridge and his taking the role of "Othello". It premiered at the Tricycle Theatre (directed by its new artistic director Indhu Rubasingham) from 11 October to 24 November 2012, with Aldridge played by Adrian Lester.
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Ira Aldridge Ira Frederick Aldridge (July 24, 1807 – August 7, 1867) was an American and later British stage actor and playwright who made his career after 1824 largely on the London stage and in Europe, especially in Shakespearean roles. Born in New York City, Aldridge is the only actor of African-American descent among the 33 actors of the English stage honored with bronze plaques at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. He was especially popular in Prussia and Russia, where he received top honors from heads of state.
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Herbert Campbell Herbert Campbell (22 December 1844 – 19 July 1904) born Herbert Edward Story was an English comedian and actor who appeared in music hall, Victorian burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era. He was famous for starring, for forty years, in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane's annual Christmas pantomimes, predominantly as a dame.
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William Simmonds Chatterley William Simmonds Chatterley (21 March 1787 – 1822) was an English actor.
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Wybert Reeve Wybert Reeve (c. 1831 – 21 November 1906) was an English actor and impresario, important in the history of the theatre in South Australia.
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Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao B.L. (Telugu: బందా కనకలింగేశ్వరరావు) (20 January 1907 – 3 December 1968) was an Indian actor known for his works in Telugu theatre, and Telugu cinema.
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Mikhail Shchepkin Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin (Russian: Михаи́л Семёнович Ще́пкин , 17 November [O.S. 6 November] 1788 , the village Krasnoe, Oboyan county, Kursk Province — 11 August [O.S. 23 August] 1863 ) was the most famous Russian Empire actor of the 19th century. He is considered the "father" of realist acting in Russia and, via the influence of his student, Glikeriya Fedotova, a major influence on the development of the 'system' of Konstantin Stanislavski (who was born in the year in which Shchepkin died). Shchepkin's significance to the Theatre of Russia is comparable to that of David Garrick to the English theatre.
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Louis Monrose Antoine-Martial Louis Barizain also called Louis Monrose or Monrose (1811–1883) was a 19th-century French actor. The actor Claude Louis Séraphin Barizain (1783-1843) was his father. The actress Mademoiselle Monrose was his step sister due to her marriage with his brother, Eugène (Barizain).
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Henry Pettitt Henry Alfred Pettitt (7 April 1848 – 24 December 1893), was a British actor and dramatist.
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Alexander Girardi Alexander Girardi (pronounced ] ) (5 December 1850 – 20 April 1918) was an Austrian actor and tenor singer in operettas.
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Thomas Manders Thomas Manders (22 December 1797–28 October 1859) was an actor-manager and low comedian of the early 19th century.
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Frank Robert Frank Robert (né Frank Robert Olstad; 12 October 1918 – 13 July 2007) was a Norwegian singer, dancer and actor. He is particularly remembered for playing the title character in the popular audio play "Dickie Dick Dickens".
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Oliver Wakefield Oliver Wakefield (born 29 May 1909, Mahlabitini, Zululand, South Africa; d. 30 June 1956, New York, USA), was a popular British actor and comedian active from the 1930s until his death in 1956. Often billed as "The Voice of Inexperience", Wakefield is best known for his idiosyncratic satirical monologues.
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Arthur Playfair Arthur Wyndham Playfair (20 October 1869 – 28 August 1918) was an English actor and singer. Beginning in Victorian burlesque and comic operas, Playfair became known for his roles in Edwardian musical comedy and, later, in musical revues.
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Charles Selby Charles Selby (c. 1802 – 1863) was a 19th-century English actor and playwright, and translator of many French plays (often without attribution, not uncommon at the time).
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Gil-Pérès Gil-Pérès, real name Jules-Charles Pérès Jolin, (9 July 1822 – 30 January 1882) was a 19th-century French stage actor and vaudevilliste, who was a member of the troupe of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in the mid-19th century, and created several roles in Offenbach operettas.
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Nikolai Muzil Nikolai Ignatyevich Muzil (Николай Игнатьевич Музиль (26 November 1839, Chesmeny, Moscow, Russian Empire, - 9 July 1906, Moscow) was a prominent Russian 19th century stage actor, associated with Moscow's Maly Theatre. He was honoured with the Meritorious Artists of the Imperial Theatres title in 1903.
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Bryan Powley Bryan Gilbert Powley (16 September 1871 – 18 December 1962) was a British stage and film actor.
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John Langford Pritchard John Langford Pritchard (1799 – 5 August 1850) was an English actor.
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Forrest Taylor Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color.
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Édouard Brisebarre Edouard-Louis-Alexandre Brisebarre (Paris 12 February 1815 – 17 December 1871 10th arrondissement of Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright.
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Ganesh Bodas Ganesh Govind Bodas (1880–1965), also known as Ganpatrao Bodas (Marathi: गणपतराव बोडस ;), was an Indian stage actor known for performing Marathi plays.