By Lolita Chakrabarti

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Director - Robin Belfield

Set design - Céline Kramer

Costume design - Sabirin Osman

Lighting design - James Blakeman

Sound design - Gareth Swindail-Parry

Stage manager - Luis Yatco

Deputy stage manager - Robert Hearn

Photography - Kirsten McTernan

April 2022

End-on production in the Richard Burton Theatre - Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

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Red Velvet tells the story of Ira Aldridge, talented actor in the 19th Century and his experience as the first black actor to perform Othello at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in London.