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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Genre
Drama
Rating
R
Released
18 December, 2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in Chicago in the 1920s, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of Black recording artists by white producers. The play's title comes from Ma Rainey's song of the same name, which refers to the Black Bottom dance. Rainey, whose life as a well-known blues-singer of the 1920s is an inspiration for the play, is also the titular character. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was published in the early 1980s and premiered at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Its Broadway debut at the Cort Theatre in 1984 won a New York Drama Critics' Circle award and garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.

Written by August Wilson
Date premiered 1984
Place premiered Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut
Original language English
Series The Pittsburgh Cycle
Subject A blues group waits to get to work in the studio, and tempers flare.
Genre Drama
Setting Chicago, early 1927

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A renowned blues singer and her band congregate at a Chicago based recording studio, leading tensions to rise during the late nineteen twenties. The film was directed by George C. Wolfe.

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The movie is based upon playwright August Wilson's production of the same name. During its first weekend on Netflix, it claimed the honor of number one most watched title.

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Plays set in Illinois.. Chicago in fiction.. Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.. Plays by August Wilson.. The Pittsburgh Cycle.. New York Drama Critics' Circle Award winners.. American plays adapted into films.

Información más reciente sobre Ma Rainey's Black Bottom actualizada el 28 de Julio, 2021.