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J. Blanton

Bottom's up

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 22 May 2013

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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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ShaSeli

Excellent Play

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 2 January 2021

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This was an excellent period play. I have seen it performed live, read this book/script and have also watched the Netflix adaptation. I must say that the live stage performance is definitely the best!

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Tiffany Marshall

That ending.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 23 June 2021

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I wasn’t expecting that ending at all. Such a gripping play/read. I was worried about how it would be to read a play but I loved it.

JudE_Chicago

Read the play. Watch the movie!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 28 March 2021

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The screen play follows story of playwright and adds some color and history. Loved that movie took place in summer. Would not change anything else.

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Paul S

Read the play, see the play

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 15 March 2021

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Worth reading the play to better understand the dialogue in the play or movie.

sean Foster

love this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 11 April 2021

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love this book. well written

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♫NewHorizons♫

Recording the blues in Chicago, late 1920s

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 25 June 2018

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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.

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David Michael Boyd

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 4 February 2013

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I bought the book because of a lecture about blues history and culture in which it was mentioned. If you want to get some insight into the social context of the blues from an Afro-american perspective I believe that this play is thought provoking. This and other books I have been reading have shocked me into deeper awareness of the social injustice that our nation has tolerated and perpetrated - history that did not find its way into the classrooms where I went to school.

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Lostpenlids

Brilliant play and a brilliant read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 August 2016

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We had to read this for part of our university module. Really enjoyed the play, very funny at times but also a hard-hitting play on how black people are treated in the music business - some of which still stands today.

Stage directions are informative and make the play a great read as you can truly visualise the play while reading.

ben.allen

Powerful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 8 September 2019

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The characters seem real. The story is an emotional look at the hurtful interactions blacks trying to have their own identity in a white world.

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