Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - 1927

The first play Wilson wrote for the Cycle, set in 1927.

About the author

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.

Summary

In a jazz-era Chicago recording studio, musicians await the great blues diva.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Rich, August Wilson
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9781559362993
• ISBN: 978-1-55936-299-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 221 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: August Wilson Century Cycle; August Wilson Century Cycle
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies