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Actor Steps Into Star Role, Sight Unseen
Esau Pritchett is Mr. Othello, having played Shakespeare’s great tragic hero nine times and counting. Yet he has never seen the Shakespeare’s great tragedy acted on a stage. Any stage. Anywhere.
Pritchett takes the stage in New Haven Wednesday night to step into another huge role, the embittered yet noble Negro Leagues ball player Troy Maxson in August Wilson’s Fences. He has never seen that play either.
That’s all by choice.
The revival of Wilson’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play — arguably the major work in the playwright’s ten-play Century Cycle chronicling the modern African-American experience — opens (previews) at the Long Wharf Theatre Wednesday night, directed by Phylicia Rashad, an actress turned director and best known for her role on TV’s Cosby Show.
Pritchett (pictured above in Long Wharf’s dressing room) has a reason for not seeing the venerable plays he stars in: Never stu Esau Pritchett Biography, Celebrity Facts and Awards - TV Guide!