Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Antonio Fargas, Johnnie Fiori, Daniel Poyser, Kay Bridgeman, Ram John Holder, Wyllie Longmore, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, David Fleeshman, Patrick Driver, David Corden

Creatives/Company

Author: August Wilson
Producer: Royal Exchange Manchester
Director: Jacob Murray
Design: Di Seymour
Lighting: Robert Bryan
Sound: Steve Brown