Equity Journal November 1983

A special edition of the Equity Journal, reporting from a conference held by the Equity Council on integrated casting at the Barbican Centre on the 6th and 7th March 1983. The journal asks the question regarding Ira Aldridge:
‘Black Actor plays King Lear in West End…But that was the nineteenth century, what about now?’
Includes contributions from Hugh Manning, Peter Plouviez, Louis Mahony and Jimi Rand.