Grandeur Under Siege | ‘Red Velvet’ Recalls One Shocked London Audience
Ben BrantleyApril 1, 2014: Shock waves rarely travel across centuries. But at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, where Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet opened on Monday night, you can experience firsthand what it must have felt like to be part of one seriously rattled London theater audience in 1833. This uncanny adventure in time exploration comes courtesy of Adrian Lester, the magnificent star of Red Velvet, which debuted to wide acclaim in 2012 at the Tricycle Theater in London. Since the 1990s, Mr. Lester has created a rich and varied gallery of Shakespeare characters, ranging from Rosalind in As You Like It to the title heroes of Henry V and Hamlet.
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