Play of the Week: Red Velvet, Tricycle Theatre, London NW6

Indhu Rubasingham kicks off her tenure as the Tricycle's artistic director with a fascinating play by Lolita Chakrabarti. The piece begins and ends in a theatrical dressing room, where the pioneering real-life African-American actor, Ira Aldridge (1807-67), is preparing to play King Lear in the last year of his life.

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