Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinaryMa Rainey's Black Bottom-winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal of black rage, of racism, of the self-hate that racism breeds, and of racial exploitation.

August Wilson was a well-known American playwright whose work has frequently been praised as among the best in the country's theater. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, his first play, won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for outstanding new play in 1984-85. Fences, his second play, received the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for best play of the year in 1987. The New York Drama Critics' Circle named Joe Turner's third play, Come and Gone, the greatest play of 1987-1988. Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson in 1990. In 2005, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780452261136
ISBN 10	0452261139
Title	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Author	August Wilson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1985-04-24
Number of pages	112
Prizes	Winner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.
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