The African Company Presents Richard III
17th Feb 2009 - 28th March at various venues across the UK starting with Greenwich 17th-21st february.
1821. 40 years before the end of slavery. In this true story, the African Company, America's first black theatre company, is preparing to produce Richard 111 in downtown New York. Meanwhile their competition, Stephen Price, an uptown, Broadway-type impresario, is producing the same play, and he has promised a famous English actor overflowing audiences if he plays Richard. Determined to close down the rival production, Price resorts to manipulating the law, doing everything he can to stop the African Company's production from opening.
Collective Artistes is an International Black Ensemble with the creative team and core performing company having worked together since 1997. Major productions have included Things Fall Apart, the award winning Yerma, Sense of Belonging, Trojan Women - Women of Owu and The Lion and the Jewel. Collective Artistes have co-produced with a variety of companies including Young Vic, Barbican, UK Arts International and Nu Century Arts (a Birmingham based black theatre company).
Dates
| DATE | VENUE | BOX OFFICE |
| 17th-21st feb | Greenwich Theatre - London www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk |
020 8858 7755 |
| 26th-28th feb | New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth www.newtheatreroyal.com |
023 92649000 |
| 2nd march | Grove Theatre, Dunstable www.grovetheatre.co.uk |
01582 602 080 |
| 5th -7th march | Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield www.lbt-uk.org |
01484 430 528 |
| 23rd-25th march | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough www.sjt.uk.com |
01723 370 541 |
| 26th-28th March | Lakeside, Nottingham www.lakesidearts.org.uk |
0115 846 7777 |
