Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

T456008566
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:T456008566, play:S202747667, venue:V374

Special Performances

26 Mar 16 Captioned
18 Apr 16 Captioned
29 Apr 16 Audio Described
30 Apr 16 Audio Described

Performance

Venue	Lyttelton (National Theatre)
	Other spaces: Lyttelton Loft
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	26th January 2016
Opened	2nd February 2016
To	18th May 2016
When	Jan 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, Feb 1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 22, 23, 24, Mar 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, Apr 15, 16, 18, 19, 27, 28, 29, 30, May 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18 at 19:30. Feb 2 at 19:00. Feb 4, 13, 23, Mar 5, 8, 16, 23, 26, 29, Apr 16, 19, 28, 30, May 3, 10, 18 Mats 14:15
What is currently on at Lyttelton (National Theatre) (V374)

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

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)

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