Wilson, August
Fences & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241987834
- author:
- Wilson, August
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 centimeters
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Performing Arts, Theater,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Two powerful modern classics about race in 20th century America from the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a tense, searing account of racism in jazz-era America, as the great blues diva Ma Rainey arrives at a run-down Chicago recording studio with her entourage to cut new sides of old favourites. The New Yorker described it as 'a genuine work of art'. Fences is a play about Troy Maxson, a garbage collector, an embittered former baseball player and a proud, dominating father, struggling against his young son's ambition, his wife, and his own frustrated dreams in 1950s Pittsburgh. Both plays give vivid voices to people on the frayed margins of life, with uncommon lyrical richness, theatrical density and emotional heft.
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