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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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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 e

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Samuel French, Inc
0573681139 / 9780573681134
Paperback / softback
812
11/10/2010
United States
English
124 pages, Illustrations, black and white