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Great character's in dynamic spiritual-material interplay in this view of African-Americans in the 1920s. A black blues diva and her boys in the band in conflict with one another and their Jewish recorders and producers. The set is a music recording studio in Chicago. The producers want to make money. The band wants to make music. Ma Rainey (a characterization of a real singer) wants things done her way, but she also wants everyone in the band to be treated justly and fairly. Slow Drag just wants to get along. The trumpet player wants everyone to notice him and his style. Toledo, the philosopher, wants everyone in the band to take stock of his life and act in ways that benefit others, not just himself. The tragic ending emphasizes the continuing conflict of the material against the spiritual. As usual, the dialects ring true and the characters seem as if they really could have lived.


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Ma Rainey Black Bottom A Play August Wilson 9780452261136 Books Reviews

Amazing play. You knew something was gonna happen to poor Levee. They just picked on him for hoping to get something better and they got what they asked for.
One of the great plays of the 20th century.
Oh, yeah...got me playing Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other blues singing women of the early 20th Century. Captures a time and age in a most artful way.
August Wilson is a great American writer!!!
The mise -en-scene for this play is a recording studio in the early blues period. Its climax for me is a firey speech by MA Rainey tourching god and religion and their culpability in the white abuse of black people. One of the most steller angry speeches I have ever read. You will quite possibly sit there post speech stunned and saying to yourself "Oh No she didn't just say all that, did she?"
This is the second August Wilson play I've read. While not as moving as Fences, it is quite good. It ended in a surprise, if only because it seemed a little too abrupt and forced.
Enjoyed reading this play, rather than seeing it performed. I've seen it performed several times, but each actor usually tries to over act the part. I didn't know this play was so good--until I read it.
Great character's in dynamic spiritual-material interplay in this view of African-Americans in the 1920s. A black blues diva and her boys in the band in conflict with one another and their Jewish recorders and producers. The set is a music recording studio in Chicago. The producers want to make money. The band wants to make music. Ma Rainey (a characterization of a real singer) wants things done her way, but she also wants everyone in the band to be treated justly and fairly. Slow Drag just wants to get along. The trumpet player wants everyone to notice him and his style. Toledo, the philosopher, wants everyone in the band to take stock of his life and act in ways that benefit others, not just himself. The tragic ending emphasizes the continuing conflict of the material against the spiritual. As usual, the dialects ring true and the characters seem as if they really could have lived.