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Chicago, 1927. In a recording studio on the city's South Side, a battle of wills is raging. Ma Rainey, Mother of the Blues, uses every trick in the book to fight her record producers for control of her music. Hardened by years of ill-treatment and bad deals, she's determined that 'Black Bottom', the song that bears her name, will be recorded her way. But Levee, the band's swaggering young trumpet player, plans to catapult the band into the jazz age. His ambition puts them all in danger.

Creatives/Company

Author: August Wilson

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Archive listings for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2016)

Work type: Play.

T456008566

Producer National Theatre. Director Dominic Cooke. Design Ultz. Lighting Charles Balfour. Choreographer Coral Messam. Sound Paul Arditti. Music Tim Sutton. Performer Sharon D Clarke (Ma Rainey). Performer O-T Fagbenle (Lee). Performer Tunji Lucas (Sylvester). Performer Lucian Msamati (Toledo). Performer Giles Terera (Slow Drag). Performer Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter (Understudy Dussie Mae). Performer Ricardo Coke-Thomas (Understudy Toledo / Cutler). Performer John Paul Connolly (Policeman). Performer Clint Dyer (Cutler). Performer Stephen Fawkes (Understudy Sturdyvant / Irvin). Performer Tamara Lawrance (Dussie Mae). Performer Finbar Lynch (Irvin). Performer Stuart McQuarrie (Sturdyvant). Performer Kadeem Pearse (Uunderstudy Sylvester / Slow Drag). Performer Lucy Vandi (Understudy Ma Rainey).

26 Jan 16 to 18 May 16

Lyttelton (National Theatre), West End :: V374
listing details L05863575

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