Call Mr Robeson

£9.99

Call Mr Robeson

Name: Call Mr Robeson
Brand: Playdead Press
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Written by Tayo Aluko

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"They say I'm meddling in the foreign affairs of the United States Government. Now, that's too bad, cause I'm going to have to continue to meddle..." Paul Robeson is a world famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When over the years he gets progressively too radical and outspoken for the establishment's liking, he is branded a traitor to his country, harassed, and denied opportunities to perform or travel. Just as physical, emotional and mental stress threaten to push him over the fine line between genius and madness, he is summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, to give the most difficult and important performance of his career.

Nigerian-born Tayo Aluko is an actor, singer and playwright, based in Liverpool, UK, where he worked previously as an architect.

His multi-award-winning play, CALL MR. ROBESON has been performed as far North as within the Arctic Circle and as far South as New Zealand, with a performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in February 2012.

A radio play about Robeson, PAUL ROBESON’S LOVE SONG, was premiered on Robeson’s birthday, April 9, 2021, and is now streaming online.

His second full-length play, JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER was premiered in August 2016 and has already been performed in five countries.

He premiered his third stage play, COLERIDGE-TAYLOR OF FREETOWN, in May 2024. It is inspired by the life and music of the Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and his African (Sierra Leonean) ancestry.

His art is dedicated to encouraging and inspiring progressive activism by showing how Black History is everybody’s history.