Performance

Venue	Liverpool Playhouse
	Other spaces: for listings see Everyman & Playhouse
Town	Liverpool
County	Merseyside
From	28th May 2004
Opened	2nd June 2004
To	19th June 2004
When	19:30
Prices	From £5.00. To £18.00.
What is currently on at Liverpool Playhouse (V536)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

T1088084056
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.

Author

August Wilson

Archive :: production:T1088084056, play:S202747667, venue:V536

Special Performances

18 Jun 04 Sign Interpreted

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Producer	Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse
Director	Gemma Bodinetz
Design	Bruce Macadie
Lighting	Natasha Chivers
Sound	John Leonard
Director	Tayo Akinbode (music)
Performer	Melanie La Barrie
Performer	Nicholas Beveney
Performer	Chipo Chung
Performer	Alan Cooke
Performer	Ewen Cummins
Performer	Louis Emerick
Performer	Vincent Marzello
Performer	Cornelius Macarthy
Performer	Barry McCormick
Performer	Paul Regan

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