Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Softcover
Play with music
Characters: 8 males (5 black, 3 white) 2 black females
Scenery: Unit set
It's 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey is recording new sides of old favorites. More goes down in the session than music in this riveting portrayal of rage, racism, the self hate and exploitation.
"Searing ... funny, salty, carnal and lyrical.... Wilson has lighted a dramatic fuse that snakes and hisses through several anguished eras of American life. When the fuse reaches its explosive final destination, the audience is impaled by the impact." N.Y. Times.
"Brilliant ... explosive! Dramatically riveting." Newhouse Newspapers.
Winner New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
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August Wilson is the most influential and successful African American playwright writing today. He is the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences, The Piano Lesson, King Hedley II, Ma Rainy's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, Two Trains Running, Jitney and Radio Golf. His plays have been produced all over the world.
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"The play's themes are not new to the stage . . . the black American search for identity . . . and the process by which any American sells his soul for what Arthur Miller calls the salemean's dream. Mr. Wilson's style, however, is all his own. . . . He has lighted a dramatic fuse that snakes and hisses through several anguished eras of American life. When the fuse reaches its explosive final destination, the audience is impaled by the impact."—Frank Rich, The New York Times
"Extraordinary! Ma Rainey rides on the exultant notes of the blues!"—Jack Kroll, Newsweek
"What a joy! Brilliant... explosive! One of the most dramatically riveting plays I've seen in years. You must see it!"—William A Raidy, Newhouse Newspapers
"A genuine work of art."—Brendan Gill, The New Yorker
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- PublisherSamuel French, Inc.
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0573681139
- ISBN 13 9780573681134
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages124
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