Was this taken pre 2007?
Between 2007 and 2010 the theatre was closed for redevelopment. Post 2010 is the chair/plaque in place?
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Angela Allison, Coventry UK
---- Martin Hoyles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The chair still exists.
There's a photo of it in my book on Ira Aldridge - page 96.
Martin
From: Angela Allison <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 20:41
Subject: Re: Ira Aldridge
That reminds me.
In May 2011 I visited the Shakes Birthplace Museum etc, and while there's acknowledgement of Robeson, and later black & Asian actors, I saw nothing re. Aldridge.
This is despite the fact that Aldridge came to Stratford in 1851 to play Othello at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The Royal Shakespeare Theatre opened on 23 April 1932 on the site adjacent to the original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (opened 19 April 1879), which had been destroyed by fire on 6 March 1926, whose name it took.
In addition, a bronze plate with the inscription ‘Ira Aldridge’ was fixed to a chair when the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was built (1932?). This was thanks to the financial contributions from James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the NAACP.
Does this chair still exist? If not the chair, what about the plaque? Has anyone ever seen it?
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Angela Allison, Coventry UK
---- Marika Sherwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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