Casting Performers for "Red Velvet" Show
The company is holding auditions for "Red Velvet" show Table Read, please see the details below. About the project: Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage while playing Othello. A young black American actor has been asked to take over the role. A black man has never starred on a major London stage—not even as Othello—until tonight. An imagined version of true events, RED VELVET transports audiences to the turbulent backstage world of London’s Theatre Royal in Covent Garden to tell the little-known story of Ira Aldridge. As British Parliament debates the abolition of slavery, Aldridge prepares to make his entrance as Othello. His groundbreaking performance upends centuries of British stage tradition and changes the lives of everyone involved. Additional info: Show Dates: October 9-12, 17-19, 24-26, 2025 Show Times: 12, 19, 25 and 26 @ 3PM. All others 7:30PM Table read: May 11 from 1-4pm
12 roles
Polish stage-hand. Inexperienced, low status and likes Halina.
Polish journalist. Bright, ambitious, frustrated with her life.
English. Ira Aldridge's valet and dresser. Loyal, hard working.
American, actor. Ambitious, keen, passionate and optimistic. Also plays a later stage of life, 60’s, grand, impatient, ferocious and unwell.
Experienced, servant. Older than her years and the voice of truth
English, actress. Self-concerned, not clever but pleasant.
English actor. Political, self- interested, ambitious and earnest.
English, actor. Old school, a bit lazy, opinionated and insecure.
English, actor (son of Edmund Kean). Grand but without the talent to support it. Suffers from being Edmund and son.
English, a leading actress. Talented, motivated, classical but progressive.
French, manager of the theatre. Gay, revolutionary, entrepreneurial.
English, wife of Ira Aldridge. Plain, solid, trustworthy, Ira's rock.
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