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Paul Robeson
Phillip Hayes Dean
8 Hotels
by Nicholas Wright
Synopsis
1944. America.
Celebrated actor, singer and political campaigner Paul Robeson – forever associated with 'Ol' Man River' – is touring the country as the eponymous hero in Shakespeare's Othello
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His Desdemona is the brilliant young actress Uta Hagen.
Her husband, the Broadway star José Ferrer, plays Iago.
All the actors are friends.
But in mid-century American society, they are not all equals.
As the tour goes on, the boundaries between the onstage passions and their offstage lives begin to blur.
Soon the chemistry between Robeson and Hagen and the rivalry between Robeson and Ferrer is every bit as dangerous as that between their famous characters.
Revenge takes many forms and in post-war America it isn't always purely personal – it can be disturbingly political too.
Publication
Publisher Nick Hern Books
Year 2020
Pages 96
Language English
ISBN-13 9781848428553
ISBN-10 1848428553
eISBN-13 9781788502504
LCC PR6073.R529
8 Hotels is a British black history play written by Nicholas Wright and published by Nick Hern Books (2020).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books (eISBN 9781788502504).
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