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

Melanie La Barrie, Nicholas Beveney, Chipo Chung, Alan Cooke, Ewen Cummins, Louis Emerick, Vincent Marzello, Cornelius Macarthy, Barry McCormick, Paul Regan

Creatives/Company

Author: August Wilson
Producer: Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse
Director(s): Gemma Bodinetz, Tayo Akinbode (music)
Design: Bruce Macadie
Lighting: Natasha Chivers
Sound: John Leonard